Accessing Super-Creativity

May the FLOW be with you!

Dream Theory; Flow; History of Emotions: Introductions; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship

 

 

A Baroque History of Time: Stars, Hearts & Music

Time according to Einstein, Newton, Galileo & Aristotle

History of Emotions; Introductions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm

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Baroque Opera then and now

Cavalieri and Monteverdi, pioneers of modern-day performance practice 

Continuo; Early Harps; History of Emotions; Italian Baroque Harp; Moving the Passions; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm

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The Best Practical Musick: Thomas Mace's Rule of Time-Keeping

True Time, and when/how it might be broken

History of Emotions; Improvisation; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm

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Challenge your assumptions

Scientific approaches to research and performance in Early Music

History of Emotions, Introductions, Music & Philosophy

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iL Corago - The Baroque Opera Director

Andrew Lawrence-King's English translation and commentary on the c1630 treatise.

Arianna; Continuo; Early Harps; Historical Action; History of Emotions; Improvisation; Introductions; Italian Baroque harp; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm; Text; Moving the Passions

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Flow 2014 

The Cambridge Talks

Dream Theory; Flow; History of Emotions; Improvisation; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship

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Flow (Accessing Super-Creativity):

Making Connections

Dream Theory; Flow; Introductions

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Fratres: Arvo Pärt, Gia Kantšeli, Andres Mustonen

New, 20th-century and Early music in Estonia
History of Emotions; Moving the Passions

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The Good, the Bad & the Early Music Phrase

History of Emotions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Text

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How did it feel?

A History of Heaven, Harps & Hearts

Early Harps; History of Emotions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm; Single Action Harp; Text; Triple Harp

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Historical Technique for Early Irish Harps

Early Harps; Irish Harps

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How to practise

Continuo; Early Harps; Introductions; Irish Harp; Irish Harp Ornaments; Italian Baroque Harp; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Single Action Harp; Triple Harp

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Inexplicable Dumb-Shows & Noise?

Languages of Emotion in Early Opera

Continuo; History of Emotions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm; Text

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In Memoriam Pat O'Brien:

Introduction to Italian Baroque Harp technique

Early Harps; Introductions; Italian Baroque Harp; Triple Harp

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Irish Harp Ornament of the Month #1:

The Long Shake

Early Harps; Irish Harp; Irish Harp Ornaments

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Irish Harp Ornament of the Month #2:

The Cadential Shake

Early Harps; Irish Harp; Irish Harp Ornaments

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Irish Harp Ornament of the Month #3:

The Triple Shake

Early Harps; Irish Harp; Irish Harp Ornaments

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Irish Harp Ornament of the Month #4:

Striking Upwards

Early Harps; Irish Harp; Irish Harp Ornaments

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I won't say too much
The role of Euridice in Monteverdi's Orfeo

Continuo; History of Emotions; Italian Baroque Harp; Moving the Passions; Rhythm; Text

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The Minister's Conditions 

The message of Monteverdi's Orfeo
Continuo; History of Emotions; Italian Baroque Harp; Moving the Passions; Rhythm; Text

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Music Expresses Emotions?

History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm; Text

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Musing allowed
The Play of Music & Time, Peter & the Wolf,  Young Persons' Guide

History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions

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Orlando, Orlando: Drama & Dance-Rhythms
Dance-types in Handel's Orlando 

Continuo; Early Harps; History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm

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Ornamenting Monteverdi - Add, Alter or Divide?

Today's practice of ornamenting cadences is not supported by historical evidence.

Continuo, History of Emotions, Moving the Passions

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Precision Tuning & Early Irish Harps

Early Harps; Introductions

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Proportions

In search of a practical theory

Continuo; Introductions; Italian Baroque Harp; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm

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Recitative for Idiots: three types of Dramatic Monody

Genre distinctions, Doni, Peri & Caccini, Monteverdi

Continuo; History of Emotions; Moving the Passions, Text
 

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Regina Cithararum

The Cloyne, or Dalway Harp

Early Harps, Irish Harp

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The Researcher's Otherworld

A Dream of the Ancient Irish Harp

Early Harp; Irish Harp

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Rhythm - what really counts?

Tactus

History of Emotions; Introductions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm

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The Right Time for a New Vision:

Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers

Continuo; History of Emotions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm; Text

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Sherlock Holmes and the Wedding Dance:

Tactus & Proportions in Monteverdi’s ‘Lasciate i monti’

Continuo; Early Harps; History of Emotions; Italian Baroque Harp; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship; Rhythm; Text 

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Single-Action Harp

Making Sensibility of the Méthodes

Early Harps; History of Emotions; Introductions; Single Action Harp

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Sparrow-flavoured Soup

What is Continuo?

Continuo; History of Emotions; Italian Baroque Harp; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm; Text

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Such stuff as dreams are made on

Representing Emotions in Metaphors

Dream Theory; History of Emotions; Introductions

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A Tai Chi state of mind

Standing Meditation and Self-Hypnosis

Flow; Introductions; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship

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Terms of Expression

Expression or Rhetoric, Performers or Audiences

History of Emotions; Moving the Passions

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The Theatre of Dreams: La Musica hypnotises the heroes

Circa-1600 performance practice & hypnotism

Dream Theory; Flow; History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions; Text

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The times they are a-changin

Is Rubato an Absolute?

Continuo; Early Harps; History of Emotions; Introductions; Rhythm

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The Triple, or Modern Welsh Harp

Early Harps; History of Emotions; Introductions; Triple Harp

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Time & Free Will: Historical & Psychological Time
The philosophy of 20th-century Rubato
Flow; History of Emotions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm

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Time, the Soul of Music

Tactus and measure from 1596 to 1789, and today

Introductions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm

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Understand, enjoy, and be moved!
Listening to the Rhetoric of Monteverdi's Orfeo

Continuo; History of Emotions; Introductions; Italian Baroque Harp; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Rhythm, Text

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Welcome to Spanish Baroque Opera
Introduction to Celos, aun del aire matan

Continuo; Early Harps; History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions, Rhythm 

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What is Music?

Science, Art & Use

History of Emotions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship

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Where are YOU?

Martial Arts, Self-Awareness & Historically Informed Performance

History of Emotions; Moving the Passions; Music & Philosophy; Music, Dance & Swordsmanship

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The Young Persons' Guide to Early Opera

What are the Top 10 Baroque Operas?

History of Emotions; Introductions; Moving the Passions