[NL] Na de tiendelige introductie op de muziek van de Middeleeuwen, heeft Hendrik Vanden Abeele voor Amarant nu zijn zinnen gezet op de muziek van de Renaissance. In tien sessies bekijken we hoe de transitie gemaakt werd tussen Middeleeuwen en barok - maar dat klinkt te veel alsof de Renaissance slechts een overgangsperiode was. Kom... Continue Reading →
In this series of posts, an attempt was made at portraying aspects of a chant performer’s creative explorations, against a backlight of developments in the world of artistic research. Focusing on the creative potential of recitation (of texts) and reconsideration (of histories, theories, contexts), an image has emerged, inevitably incomplete, of the chant performer as... Continue Reading →
Music for saints holds a special place in the repertoire of chant. In the first centuries of Christianity a cult of saints developed, and long before the invention of musical notation a considerable repertoire of music for saints had already been established. However, the bulk of that kind of music had yet to come, since... Continue Reading →
There is hardly any better training imaginable for a plainchant performer than a detailed experience of different forms of recitation. The art of recitation is at the heart of instruction and creative development. As described earlier, various rhetorical elements (as basic as the beginning and end of a sentence) and their translation into musical formulae,... Continue Reading →
Psallentes Oude Muziek 