MUSI 1111 section 004 & 008

Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

MUSI 1118 section 001 

Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 1:20 p.m.

“Collegium Musicum” is Latin for “Music Association.” In Baroque Germany, it was a term for a group of amateur musicians, often university students, who met to rehearse and perform for pleasure. The term now refers to student ensembles with a new purpose: to perform music composed prior to the era of standard concert-hall repertoire (roughly 1700 to 1900) so that both professors and students understand the sounds and functions of music of the past. The UConn Collegium, which was founded in 1976 by the late Dr. Bruce Bellingham, performs well-known works from the standard repertoire using the instruments and performance techniques of the time, known as “historically informed performance” or HIP; and it performs music that has been neglected, often for hundreds of years. In the case of HIP, musicians and audiences are invited to reconsider works by famous composers; in the case of neglected repertoire, they are introduced to music that has been forgotten or ignored, sometimes due to the composer’s gender, religion, or race.