Lied Weekend: Frauenliebe und Leben
For our first Lied Weekend, we have chosen to focus on the settings of Chamisso's Frauenliebe und Leben. Participants can choose to work on these texts to any composer's setting.
Telling the story of a 'woman's love and life' Chamisso's poetry takes us on a journey through youth, love, marriage, motherhood, death and loss. Today, these poems are the subject of much controversy, for their limited male-centric perspective on womanhood, but the song cycles remain an important part of the art song canon, so as part of our study we are going to look deeper at the language in this poetry and see if we can find an understanding of this work from the perspective of a singer in 2022.
The weekend will consist of two group session, and an individual coaching session for every participant.
Telling the story of a 'woman's love and life' Chamisso's poetry takes us on a journey through youth, love, marriage, motherhood, death and loss. Today, these poems are the subject of much controversy, for their limited male-centric perspective on womanhood, but the song cycles remain an important part of the art song canon, so as part of our study we are going to look deeper at the language in this poetry and see if we can find an understanding of this work from the perspective of a singer in 2022.
The weekend will consist of two group session, and an individual coaching session for every participant.
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Details
Outline Schedule (UTC):
Location: Online (Zoom), join from anywhere
Participants: 4 minimum
Cost: £100 per artists, required in full on acceptance of a place.
What is included?
What do I need?
Other information
- Saturday 2nd - Group session 7-10pm.
- Individual sessions, times to be allocated between Saturday and Sunday.
- Sunday 3rd - Group session 7-10pm.
Location: Online (Zoom), join from anywhere
Participants: 4 minimum
Cost: £100 per artists, required in full on acceptance of a place.
What is included?
- 2 x group coaching sessions
- 1 x individual coaching session
- access to all recordings and materials
What do I need?
- A device on which you can join the group sessions, and a good internet connection
- Score of the music you would like to work on
- A copy of the poetry in German, plus your own translation.
- Something to play guide notes on for your coaching sessions e.g. piano, keyboard
- If you have them, a good microphone for singing, plus headphones
- A comfortable place to work
Other information
- We choose not to work with backing tracks, or accompaniment for the coaching sessions, as we find it saves time. If you would like to include a backing track or have access to an accompanist for the Sunday group session, you would be welcome to perform your song(s) in this way.
- You do not need to be off-copy or have the music fully learned. Come to us as you are, and use this weekend as part of your learning.
- This course is suitable for singers, collaborative pianists, repetiteurs, coaches, conductors, singing teachers, and directors who are interested in learning more about this song cycles. Please be prepared to use your voice to speak the texts dramatically, as well as sing them, even if only on one comfortable note.