Singing Old Songs: Gregorian Chant, Chansons, Lais, Virelais (A Performance and Workshop)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Hunter Hensley
Organizer Affiliation
Independent Performer
Presider Name
Hunter Hensley
Start Date
8-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Valley I Hadley 101
Description
Drawing from his years of recording solo chant for Richard Crocker's monumental "Gregorian Archive," medieval song recording artist, Hunter Hensley, will demonstrate to and with workshop participants how he learned to sing Gregorian chant using the medieval nuance notation. Hensley has also recorded the songs of Adam de la Halle and the Machaut virelais, for the Crocker Emeritus Press lable. He also made companion recordings for Oxford University Press Online, for Judith Peraino's "Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut. For the second part of this session Hunter Hensley will perform chant, chanson, lais, virelais, and a 12th c. planctus.
Hunter Hensley
Singing Old Songs: Gregorian Chant, Chansons, Lais, Virelais (A Performance and Workshop)
Valley I Hadley 101
Drawing from his years of recording solo chant for Richard Crocker's monumental "Gregorian Archive," medieval song recording artist, Hunter Hensley, will demonstrate to and with workshop participants how he learned to sing Gregorian chant using the medieval nuance notation. Hensley has also recorded the songs of Adam de la Halle and the Machaut virelais, for the Crocker Emeritus Press lable. He also made companion recordings for Oxford University Press Online, for Judith Peraino's "Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut. For the second part of this session Hunter Hensley will perform chant, chanson, lais, virelais, and a 12th c. planctus.
Hunter Hensley