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Toronto Consort offers an extensive Student Education Project designed for students of high school age. The programs are presented at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre in Toronto, thanks to support from the J.P. Bickell Foundation, the Lloyd
Carr-Harris Foundation, CVRD Inco, The John McKellar Charitable Foundation and The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation.
Two unique educational opportunities!
The first program, entitled
Shakespeare's Songbook, brings alive the kinds of music
which
would have been heard by William Shakespeare in Renaissance England.
Based on recent researches in the field, this 50-minute concert/lecture uses
the songs and dances of Shakespeare's plays as a way of introducing high school students to
the wonderful world of Elizabethan music.
With music for fools, fairies and Falstaff, students hear and are
introduced to ballads, recorder and hurdy-gurdy improvisations, harpsichord fantasias and a
capella vocal works. A great way to increase understanding of William Shakespeare, and to be introduced to an unforgettable musical world!
The second program, entitled An Introduction
to Medieval Music (click here to download Teachers' Guide PDF), is a wonderful way to introduce students
to the unusual world of medieval music.
The 50-minute program is devised as a pilgrimage, just as it might have
happened in medieval Europe in the early 13th century.
First stop is Paris, where we hear the cries of street vendors, listen to
itinerant students singing the original Carmina Burana, and take part in lively instrumental
dances. As we travel through France we encounter a group of knights on their way to the
Crusades, and hear their songs and stories. Finally we reach Spain where we are joined by
throngs of pilgrims singing cantigas and dancing. Throughout, students are introduced to
medieval instruments and their unique sounds.
The Toronto Consort has prepared a special Teachers’ Guide, introducing
medieval music history, and the instruments heard in the concert, which is available to
participating groups.
The programs are designed for secondary school students,
and will be of particular interest to music students, English students,
history students and students of French and Spanish. For more
information on the programs and dates of presentation, please call
Lisa at 416-966-1045.
Click here for our Teachers' Guide to An Introduction to Medieval Music.
© 2008, Toronto Consort
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An Introduction to Medieval Music
(Teachers' Guide; PDF 2.9MB)


The Toronto Consort
427 Bloor Street West
Toronto ON
M5S 1X7
Box Office: (416) 964-6337
Administrative Office: (416) 966-1045
Fax: (416) 966-1759
info@torontoconsort.org
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