Happy Sinterklaas weekend!
In this short newsletter we invite you to join our online improvisation (we know you'd love to :) ), celebrate 500 subscribers and have a video all about Sinterklaas music from the past, from the 11th - 19th century.
Stay safe, warm and healthy :)
All the best,
Robert and James
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We have 500+ subscribers! Thank you so much for your support!
We made this video to thank you: we go back to our very first open improvisation and our very first video. Not so many people joined, but the people who did sent in some wonderful videos. We experimented with recording layers on top of this. What do you think about the result?
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Join our Online Improvisation! :)
We would love to invite you to our next Open Improvisation, an international, online, recorded improvisation agglomeration, combining Renaissance symbolism and Minimal group ensemble improvisation.
You only need the notes G and E on your instrument and it will only take you 5 minutes tops. More information in the video or on our website.
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Happy Sinterklaas!
A controversy around song text led me to a search for the tradition of the sinterklaas song. The book “Sint-Nicholaas liederen” by Henk van Benthem is the basis for this video’s information. But in addition to a history we also look at how we might (start to) improvise or create our own medieval saint nicholas sequens, renaissance polyphony, 17th century diminutions (and a sinterklaas song using the melody Fortune my Foe), an 18th century version by Lully and 19th century variations on a famous melody which also has a sinterklaas text variant.
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