This course is aimed at experienced musicians, amateurs or young professionals (singers and keyboard players) who wish to acquire or deepen their experience of German Baroque motets. Steeped in the practice of choral music, a true German cultural cement, the motet has been omnipresent from Luther’s contemporaries to Brahms and Bruckner. Its golden age was reached during the Baroque period, notably with Praetorius, Schein, Schütz, and Buxtehude. We will also tackle Bach’s music with a cantata choir and an excerpt from a mass. This workshop will allow singers to immerse themselves in this universe by practicing polyphony with one voice per part (reinforced at times by ripienists – a second backup choir), with pieces for 3, 5, 6, and 8 voices. You will work on the vocal technique required for this repertoire, based on the text and its rhythm, as well as the expressive tools of the Baroque era (affects, ornaments, inequality, etc.) and their rhetorical powers. Keyboardists will use the great organ, the king of accompaniment instruments, to its full potential. The harpsichords (which were not reserved for secular music in the German repertoire) will not be left out!