Writing Period-Style Ballads
Tent 9Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Ollaimh Ruaidhri an Cù Description: Learn about the elements of the period ballad and then write your own period-style ballad.
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Known World Brass Choir
Loud 1Location: Loud 1 Instructor:Sir Mieczko the Swift Description: Bring your cornetti, sackbuts, *lysarden*, and serpents (modern trombones and trumpets are ok). Music provided.
Pre-16th-Century Musical Modal Improvisation
Cafe MerhabaLocation: Cafe Merhaba Instructor:Master Albrecht Catsprey Description: This is a practical application class for musicians to learn improvisational skills that were practiced in the Middle Ages. **College level.**
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**
Renaissance Music Mixed Consort Play Session
Location: PARC Instructor:Nicholas Trent Description: Mixed Consort Play Session.
*Commedia Pastorale*: Fantasy in Period Theatre
AmphitheaterLocation: Amphitheater Instructor: TH Niccolò Bartolazzi Description: Magicians, nymphs, monsters! 16th-century *commedia dell'arte* mixed with enchanting fantasy of *pastorale*!
Late Period Rounds
PARCLocation: PARC Instructor:Mistress Elizabeth of Dendermonde Description: Come help sing through (or listen to) some late period rounds.
Intro to West African Hand Drumming
Instructor:Erin Description: Beginning drum rhythms with West African traditional influences.
Taberna Diana
Instructor:Lady Diana of Viroconium Description: Stop at the Taberna Diana for bardic fun and culinary delights. Enjoy some refreshment as Diana and her friends entertain.
*Janissary* Band
Instructor:Master Osman Description: Learn the authentic music and march of the 16th-century Ottoman *Janissary* Band.