TOTNES EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY

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Welcome to the Totnes Early Music Society website.

TEMS has been running modestly but successfully for nine years. Our performers are largely drawn from the Early Music Directory of top soloists and ensembles, and our concerts achieve national listings, with people attending from as far away as Bristol and Penzance.

Our new season of six concerts begins in September 2008 and ranges from lively Tudor recorder music to some glorious baroque pieces by Bach and Telemann. Join us to celebrate the music of Purcell during the 350th anniversary year of his birth and to enjoy ballads and dances from 17th century Scotland with Pantagruel, returning by popular demand.

A welcome new collaboration with The Arts at Dartington allows us to offer two programmes for voice ensembles. We look forward to a delightful candlelit evening in the Great Hall at Dartington in December as Exaudi perform Medieval and Renaissance Christmas music, while our season concludes on a high with the thirteen glorious voices of Stile Antico in May.

All our concerts are open to non members. Tickets are available on the door for £10 (Stile Antico £12.50), students and juniors £5.00.

Great discounts for Members….
By joining TEMS, you can attend all six concerts for the price of four. See the Membership page for details.

… and what is Early Music?
One definition is: music earlier than the earliest music which was typically being performed in concerts at the time when performers decided to perform early music.....

….. but we prefer to say simply, music from mediaeval times up to late baroque (about 1750). This encompasses popular and courtly, intimate ballad and rousing dance music, sacred and secular, instrumental and sung, and usually for small ensembles.

Do join us!

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