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Saturday
Session 1
9:30 to 10:30 AM
EST
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Advanced Beginner - “Singing Accompaniment with two bows”.
You will learn to use techniques to play bass parts as drones, one and five chord notes
and arpeggios and use two bows to accompany the voice using songs, Go Tell Aunt
Rhodie and Boil Them Cabbage Down.
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Intermediate - “Bunessan” aka “Morning Has Broken”.
This is a double bowing class. We will learn this tune and use double bowing to add drones and
harmony while also playing the tune.
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Beginner, single bow – “Gregorian Chants”.
Learn how to read original square chant notation and then learn how to play some chants on
your psaltery. Modern notation will be provided in addition to the four-line square notation.
Chants will include Adoro Te Devote (Devoutly I Adore Thee) and O Filii er Fillae (O Sons and
Daughters), which is a chant for the Easter season.
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A little beyond Beginner- “You Can Do This!”.
More about getting to know where the notes are on your psaltery while learning the songs
“Blue Bells of Scotland” and “Spring Message”.
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Saturday
Session 2
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PM EST
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Advanced Beginner - Intermediate – “Variations on All Through the Night”.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce you to ways to add variations to the
basic melody of a song. To make things more interesting than always holding
out half notes and longer notes, you will learn to add or take away notes. We
will use the gentle lullaby melody of All Through the Night from which to
create the variations to add to the written music.
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Advanced - “Waltz of the Flowers” by Tchaikovsky.
This is a double bowing class. Using 2 bows we will navigate the back and forth of black and
white notes in this song. We will also learn and utilize the techniques of anchoring, slurring,
and alternating bows to lovely affect for playing this classical piece.
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Advanced, single bow – “Gregorian Chants for the Spring Season”.
Learn how to read original square chant notation and then learn how to play some chants on
your psaltery. Modern notation will be provided in addition to the four-line square notation.
Chants will include Victimae Psachali Laudes (To the Psachal Victim – a sequence for Easter)
and Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit – a chant for Pentecost).
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Almost Advanced?- “I Can Do This!”.
Shaker spring song “In Yonder Valley” and “Sakura Sakura”, a Japanese song about
Cherry Blossoms
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Saturday
Session 3
1:00 to 2:00 PM
EST
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Advanced Beginner - Intermediate – “Singing Accompaniment, More To It”.
Explore even more ways to play while singing. Along with bass parts as drones, one
and five chord notes with one or two bows and arpeggios, we will use bass runs,
harmonies and/or descants for those who can think of those parts while singing
(although the instructor really can’t do that). Songs will be Red River Valley and
Home on the Range.
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Beginner - “Come by the Hills”.
This is a single bowing class. A traditional Irish Air. We will learn this soft slow air in E flat to
become familiar with crossing over to the black notes, easily, smoothly, and with no anxiety.
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Advanced, single bow – “Handel’s Messiah”.
Handel wrote the Messiah to follow the church liturgical year. In this class we will learn two
selections from the Part III of his oratorio: I know that my Redeemer Liveth, and Since by
Man came Death, which focus on the resurrection and redemption from Adam’s fall.
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New to Advanced – “Make Me Feel It!”.
How to put emotion into your music while learning “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”, “Samanthra”
and “The Flowers of the Forest”, a Scottish lament based on the defeat of Bonney Prince Charles
at Culloden Moor in 1745.
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Saturday
Session 4
2:30 to 3:30 PM
EST
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All levels – “Flawless Pentatonic Improvisation”.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce you to methods of improvising on the
bowed psaltery. To make it flawless, we will be using only the “other” side of the
psaltery and will be confined to the keys of F#Major and Eb minor, but if you can
find someone to play and/or sing in those keys, you can be genius. We will also talk
about how to apply these ideas to other keys, but that is harder than this
flawless method.
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Advanced - “My Wild Irish Rose”.
Embellishments. This is a double bowing class. We will be learning “My Wild Irish Rose”
and exploring a wide variety of beautiful embellishments that lend themselves
to this lovely old Irish song.
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Beginner, single bow – “O’Carolan for Beginners”.
Turlough O’Carolan was an Irish composer, who lived from 1670-1738. He wrote over 200
tunes, many of them dedicated to his patrons. Join this class to learn Isabella Burke and
Carolan’s Dream, which features gapped scales. A short discussion of music theory will
make these tunes easier to play.
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More Advanced – “What Are Moving Lines?”.
Learn the song “ April Showers”. Then write your own harmony. You will learn more about
chords and how to use them in writing an arrangement.
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Saturday
Session 5
4:00 to 5:00 PM
EST
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Intermediate – “Let’s play (and Sing) Harder Rounds”.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce you to more complicated rounds. We
will learn them together (sing only if you want to), and then you’ll get a chance to try them as
two part rounds. They won’t sound as good as when all the parts are played together and
everybody can hear all the parts, but nobody else will notice if you have some trouble keeping
your part going. Songs will include Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening, Dona Nobis Pacem and
my original Light Round.
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Intermediate – "Playing Harmony" DUETS
This is not always the easiest part of the song! We'll practice counting, droning and
harmony while learning the songs, Flow Gently, Sweet Afton, The Wild Mountain Thyme
and Wildwood Flower.
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Advanced, single bow – “O’Carolan for the Advanced Player”.
Turlough O’Carolan wrote pieces for the harp. But some of his music translates quite well to
the psaltery. We will learn several of his tunes including Planxty Irwin, Bridget Cruise,
Kean O’Hara and Fanny Power. A short discussion of music theory will make these tunes easier
to play. At the end of class, you will get to play one tune with harp accompaniment.
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Intermediate – “How Do I Count That?”.
Counting difficult time signatures giving you a hard time? hahaha. Learn how to count 2/4,
3/2 and 3/8. And 4/4 and 6/4 in one song. Songs; “Early, Early In The Spring”,
“A Rich Irish Lady”, “Shalom Aleichim” and “Dublin City”.
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