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 ===== Classes Taught =====
-  * **Music in Unexpected Places: Music Notation as Visual Puzzle and Embodied Instruction:** Journey with Magistra Marie through a collection of medieval and renaissance examples where music is more than it seems, and never what you expect. We'll uncover how music theory and solfege were hidden inside sacred hymns and secular tunes, then move on to the Guidonian hand where pitches lived on your fingertips. We'll dip into "eye music" where scores could be shaped as hearts, circles, harps, and triangles, and the shapes carried specific meanings tied to the music. We'll encounter compositions embedded in Renaissance paintings, from the devotional, through the bawdy, to the mysterious and unknowable. And of course we can't ignore dance manuscripts where music and dance instruction are intertwined. Finally we'll touch on puzzle canons and musical cryptograms, intellectual challenges used to impress patrons and test fellow composers. Theory and notation expertise not required, just curiosity about how sound becomes visible, and how bodies become scores.
+  * **Music in Unexpected Places: Music Notation as Visual Puzzle and Embodied Instruction:** Come explore a collection of medieval and renaissance examples where music is more than it seems, and never what you expect. We'll uncover how music theory and solfege were hidden inside sacred hymns and secular tunes, then move on to the Guidonian hand where pitches lived on your fingertips. We'll dip into "eye music" where scores could be shaped as hearts, circles, harps, and triangles, and the shapes carried specific meanings tied to the music. We'll encounter compositions embedded in Renaissance paintings, from the devotional, through the bawdy, to the mysterious and unknowable. And of course we can't ignore dance manuscripts where music and dance instruction are intertwined. Finally we'll touch on puzzle canons and musical cryptograms, intellectual challenges used to impress patrons and test fellow composers. Theory and notation expertise not required, just curiosity about how sound becomes visible, and how bodies become scores.
   * **Torwyn Hill Choir:** Mini-version of the Pennsic Choir experience. Daily rehearsals followed by a dress rehearsal and concert on the final friday. If you love to sing and want to explore historical part-singing, come join us for the week and lets make some music together! No experience necessary, no audition, sight-singing and reading music not required, we will learn the music together through the week, you’ll be surprised how quickly it comes together.
   * **12th-16thC Bawdy Songs:** Street songs from the Troubadours to the Tudors, naughty nuns and other "nothings", musical fantasies, fetishes, and political incorrectness, and a look at the English Country as you've never seen it before. Ages 18+ only.