Your Programme Plan & Programme Notes should contain
the following:
Comprehensive programme notes relating to the pieces you are performing. (Schumann Liederkreis Op.39, Numbers: 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12 only. For alto singer and piano). The notes should
be informed by in
–
depth research and show insight into the pieces being
performed and demonstrate that yo
u understand something of their historical
context, their style, their relationship to other works by that composer or his/her
contemporaries, their significance within the larger musical genre and their
performance history and interpretative issues etc.
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These will form the basis of the programme to be presented to your audience,
and so should be prepared on that basis (and in that format), with due regard
to spelling, grammar, relevance of information etc.
