Recorder consort

The consort course is integrated into the curriculum for recorder students, offering them the chance to play on a Bassano Renaissance recorder consort in 466, crafted by the Dutch recorder maker Adriana Breukink. The Conservatoire makes this consort available to the students. Since the consort course serves as a laboratory for experimentation, students take turns assuming the roles of superius, altus, tenor, and bass, exploring the distinct characteristics of each role.
The repertoire covered in the consort course mainly consists of 16th-century polyphonic instrumental music (fantasias, ricercare, dances, etc.) and vocal music (madrigals, chansons, frottole, motets, etc.). Various aspects are explored, including intonation (understanding of pure intervals, resultant sounds, mesotonic temperament, etc.), breathing and coordinated articulation, diminutions, the relationship between music and text, transposition, and reading in chiavi naturali/chiavette, as well as facsimile reading (rhythmic notation, tactus, ligatures, proportions, musica ficta, etc.).

Le cours de consort propose des projets en lien avec d’autres classes et disciplines telles que la danse Renaissance, les arts de la parole, la composition contemporaine pour les instruments anciens, le broken consort. Ainsi, ces dernières années, le consort a animé un bal Renaissance, créé deux pièces de musiques contemporaines («Suflu » pour consort de flûtes à bec Renaissance et lirone, de Cornelia Zambila et « The flight » pour consort de flûtes à bec Renaissance de Luisa Maria Alvarez), participé à la parade des étudiants de formation corporelle du Conservatoire et participé au concerts « Aux portes de Bruxelles » dans différents festivals.