Ottoman Marching Music
Location: Loud 1 Instructor:Master Osman Description: Marches of the World's first military marching band, the *Janissary Mehter* Band.
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Storytelling Academy
Location: Minerva's Spindle Instructor:Gabrielle d'Auvergne Description: Students will participate in a cumulative 9-day class which encompasses the basics of becoming a storyteller.
Alliterative Verse
Tent 5Location: A&S Tent 5 Instructor:Justinian Clarus Description: Learn about verse and the difference between free verse, rhyming verse, and alliterative verse.
Here. Play This. Now.
Location: PARC Instructor:THL Siri Toivosdotter Description: Sight-read with us! Bring your recorder, or a C or F instrument. Bring a music stand and a sense of humor.
Beyond the (Cis) Male: Poets and Songwriters
Location: A&S Tent 1 Instructor:THL Cobflaith ingen Sitriucca Description: Medieval poets, songwriters, and composers who weren't (or at least, may not have been) cisgender men (a brief-ish sampling!).
Norse Poetry Overview
A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Lærifaðir Grim the Skald Description: Learn about Viking-era poetry. Includes forms, metrics, and alliteration and how to write in Norse verse. We'll talk about the ways poetry was used.
The Pennsic Mightier: Improv Workshop
AmphitheaterLocation: Amphitheater Instructor:Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh Description: Improv workshop for experienced performers: address higher level improv skills, create character, build scenes leading to a performance. **Age limit**
My Ukulele Is a Guitar
Location PARC Instructor:Tommaso Franceschi Description: History of the Renaissance 4-course guitar and its direct descendant the baritone ukulele, plus its surviving music.
Youth Recorder Jam Session
Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Pia Maletesta d'Rimini Description: Did you learn to play the recorder in school? Don't know what to do with it? Let's figure that out. Ages 8-17
Beginning Recorder
Location: PARC Instructor:Honorable Lady Elizabeth de Spaldyng Description: Learn to play soprano or tenor recorder and, as needed, basics of music reading. Bring a recorder and music stand.