• The students will familiarise themselves with the rhythmical complexities of Ars Subtilior, paralleled only by that of 20th-century music according to many notable musicians and musicologists. The students will also learn what makes a Subtilior melody Subtilior, and to which expressive principles the Subtilior characteristics respond. Relating those to their contemporary sensitivity, they will acquire new tools for the expression of their own musicianship.
• The students will be acquainted with the rare and precious artefacts that constitute the surviving sources of Subtilior music, and learn the basic guidelines for the decodification of the mensural notation
• The students will hone a specific sensitivity to a “foreign”, or unusual, tuning system such as the pythagorean, in order to penetrate the expressive potential of Subtilior music also through the mastery of intervallic intonation (pure fifths, perfect fourths, restless thirds, etc.)
• The students will acquire tools to arrange 2- or 3-voice pieces in a fashion that reflects both the stylistic aesthetics and the instruments in use
• The students will receive a substantial wealth of theoretical and practical information that enables them to ground the better-known repertoire of renaissance and early baroque music into its often neglected but fundamental late-medieval ancestry.
