Chorégraphie
The Spirit of the Dance

Introduction to Early Harps:
Try baroque harp: beginners welcome!
Instruments, technique, repertoire

Master-class in Baroque dance-music
Play baroque music on your instrument
Rhythm, melody, harmony, style; French, Spanish and South American
dances; courtly minuets, country-dances, Celtic baroque

Several early harps will be available for you to try.
This course is suitable for players of modern harp, folk harp, lute,
guitar or keyboard instruments, or for anyone who wants to try early
harps.
Students of any standard are welcome: please bring your own instrument
with you & a prepared piece: any dance from before 1750.
Baroque-harp virtuoso and imaginative continuo-player, Andrew
Lawrence-King is recognised as one of the world's leading performers
of early music. In the 1990s he directed a pioneering series of early
music concerts in Finland with the Battalia ensemble, Sixth Floor
Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta & for Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, and
he now appears as guest director for Utopia Chamber Choir,
Ostrabothnian Chamber Orchestra, & Spirit of Gambo viol consort. His
international career as soloist and with The Harp Consort takes him to
La Scala Milan, Sydney Opera House, Berlin Philharmonie. He is
Professor of Harp at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya
(ESMUC) in Barcelona.

Andrew Lawrence-King - Baroque harp

Kreeta-Maria Kentala - Baroque violin

Markku Luolajan-Mikkola - Viola da gamba

Annamari Pölhö - Harpsichord & continuo

Solo & ensemble classes, workshops, master-classes,
student performances & teachers' concert, plus a unique
opportunity to try early harps. Come and take part in
this multi-faceted celebration of baroque dance-music!

Feuillet's collection of baroque dances, Chorégraphie (Paris, 1700)
brings together the most popular operatic, theatrical and court dances
from the reign of Louis XIV, le Roi soleil. The noble French style
predominates, but there are many dances in the Spanish style, as well
as popular country-dances. Ribayaz describes his Luz y Norte (Madrid
1677) as an "guide, by which one may explore all the Spanish music".
His book contains variations for harp and guitar, together with
technical & musical advice, fingering and phrasing information etc.

The Spirit of the Dance is at the heart of all baroque music, whether
written for dancing or for listening to. Even in a free prelude or a
polyphonic fantasia, airy dance-articulations bring the melody to
life, dance-metres shape the rhythm of the underlying tactus, and the
geometric figures traced by the dancers' feet are matched by the
formal and rhetorical structures of the music.

Where: Kallio-Kuninkala, Järvenpää, Finland
When: 10-12 November 06, starting with dinner on Friday 10th at 1700
Course fee: €35 (includes meals and accommodation)
Contact: Mr. Matti Leisma matti.leisma@...