For more than 20 years, the musicologist Jean Lionnet has tirelessly studied, transcribed and copied numerous unpublished eighteenth-century manuscripts in the Vatican Library. These pieces of sacred vocal music constitute an inestimable treasure which bears witness to the intense musical activity which reigned in Rome in the years between 1630 and 1700 and to the evolution of the Roman baroque style between Carissimi and Handel.

For the first time, thanks to the support of Livia Lionnet and the Baroque Music Centre of Versailles, Jérôme Correas will propose the discovery of pieces for one or several voices and instruments which will help to better understand, through Lorenzani, Mazzocchi or Marazzoli, other composers such as Foggia, Fabri or Costanzi, who have up until now been unjustly overlooked.

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Main study topics :

• Work on the interpretation of different genres of sacred music (representative music, liturgical music), on the theatricalisation of  religious feeling, on Italian ornamentation in the seventeenth century.

• 	Work on the pronunciation of Latin in the Roman manner (with Barbara Nestola).
  	

• 	Work in groups (duets, trios).
  	

• 	Team work with the "continuistes".
  	

Modalities

Saturday, April, 15th

10AM - 13AM: Individual lessons with Jérôme Corréas and Béatrice Martin

14:30 - 18:00: Group lessons (voice and instrument)

18:30: Conference of Barbara Nestola : Religious Music in XVII century, Rome, specially the Jean Lionnet's collection

Sunday 16th, Monday 17th April.

10AM - 13AM: Individual lessons with Jérôme Corréas and Béatrice Martin

14:30 - 18:00: Group lessons (voice and instrument)

Thuesday, April, 18th

10AM - 13AM: Individual lessons with Jérôme Corréas and Béatrice Martin

14:30 - 17:30 : Rehearsal

19:00 : concert

 

Tuition/fees

200 euros (tuition and lunches)
175 euros for participants in the European Baroque Academy (2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006)
Possibility of lodgings in Ambronay (rooms for 4 or 6 persons): 110 euros (evening meals and breakfasts included). For more details

Arrival of participants : Friday, April14th (evening)
Departure Wednesday, April 19th (before noon)