This course is for those who fascinated in early music - not just the music of a particular period, but also the approprach to performing and thinking about music. Early Music studies have always been a centrepiece of Birmingham’s offerings, and the department includes three early music specialists: Amy Brosius, specialist in seventeenth-century vocal music; and Andrew Kirkman, scholar of late medieval music and director of early music projects from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. In addition, CEMPR has some twenty professional early music performers of international standing on its staff who not only teach early vocal and instrumental techniques and repertoire, but also engage in practice-led research.