Field of Study: | Music Performance, General Voice and Opera
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Description: | The Early Music program offers an opportunity for students to learn the elements of early music performance practice, and to sing early music. The program combines individual lessons and ensemble training with study of historical approaches to performance in its various activities -- workshops, master classes, guest lecturers and research projects.
McGill owns an important collection of early instruments and historical copies from the 15th to the early 19th century, including five harpsichords, five organs, sackbuts, cornetti, baroque and classical flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, bassoons, viols, and more than a dozen baroque string instruments. |