Questions UMBC Collegium musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. Open to all students with musical ability. Permission of instructor required. Under the direction of Joseph C. Morin , the UMBC Collegium musicum is a unique ensemble in the VPA program, being devoted to the performance of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music.
Members meet in ensembles of various sizes to study and perform period vocal and instrumental music.
Students are given the opportunity to sing in a variety of conventional and extended vocal styles, and to play recorder, krummhorn, racket, cornetto, shawm, sackbut, viol da gamba, vielle, harp, organetto, lute, and other historical instruments from the UMBC Department of Music's collection of instruments. Through this course, participants are exposed not only to a broad variety of music, but also to various cultural aspects of the societies that figured in the production of the music under study. Thus, the course seeks to provide perspective to the student on understanding not only how the music sounded and why it sounded as it did, but its function within the society that produced it. Auditions Students wishing to take part in the Collegium need to demonstrate musical proficiency on their instrument or in singing. Rehearsal Locations and Schedule Rehearsals always take place in the Fine Arts building.