Atempo
Medieval Music
PROJECTS
Following a period of studies in Paris, our group, ATEMPO, developed several projects in early music.
Bellow is a summary of some of our projects:
- An overview of Medieval Music – from the climax of Gregorian chant to the autumn of the Middle Ages. A course in 4 or 8 modules, with live and recorded musical examples, addressed to all interested in the subject.
- A Voyage Through the Middle Ages – a series of four didactic concerts aimed at children, and focusing on four important moments of the Middle Ages: Courtly Love, Church Music, Tavern Music and The First Madrigals.
- France and Italy - Friends and Foes - As a continuation of the preceding voyage, musical examples are given, showing the evolution of musical styles, with the ensemble FERMATA performing pieces of the Renaissance and the Baroque.
- Concert-Lectures which help locate the authors and their work in the vast universe of the music of the Middle Ages.
- Francesco Landini and the Italian Trecento
- The Music of Francis of Assisi
- Guillaume de Machaut and Ars Nova in France
- Songs of Praise and Pilgrimage
If you are interested in any of these projects and wish to get in touch with us, send us a message.
Accomplished Projects
In August, 1995, ATEMPO taught a course in Medieval Music and played the final concert at the I Seminar of Early Music of Recife and Olinda, by invitation from the Pernambuco Conservatory of Music .
In January, 1996, ATEMPO invited the famous flutist Pierre Hamon to play a concert at the France-Brazil House and to teach a course in Medieval Music, at UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense). This project was sponsored by the Music Department of FUNARTE, and it was supported by the UFF Early Music Ensemble and the Brazil-France House. Pierre Hamon is a member and artistic co-director of Alla Francesca besides being a professor at the Mediaeval Music Center of Paris.