Sets for the summer performing season

Here they are with pointers to the music.

If there’s any demand, I’ll do a booklet as I’ve done in previous
years, once the sets are a little more cast in concrete. So let me
know whether that would be helpful.

River set

• Billings, By the rivers of Watertown regular
  parts in original key.. Also transposed down a step, and the bass solo cued in the
  other parts in the
  2004 book, and with larger type but in the original key from the
  2003 book. Please use the version
  transposed down a step.
• Estans
  assis, aux rives aquatiques Please make
  sure you have the most recent version, with letters A through F on all
  parts.
• Gibbons, Silver
  Swan A problem with the tenor part was
  fixed on March 30; please download again if you printed it before that.
• Dowland, “Me, me and none but me”
• Arcadelt “Il bianco e dolce cigno”
• Possibly the 5-part “Il
  bianco e dolce cigno”. This is contingent on being able to learn
  it, which seems dubious to me since it’s been a while since we had a
  rehearsal with enough people to cover the parts, and it doesn’t look
  like this Tuesday will be an exception. Dropped for the May performance; we will get back to
  learning it after that.
• Possibly other “Rivers of Babylon settings”. I particularly like
  the one we sing in West Gallery to the Walter Scott “Dies Irae”
  translation, which was originally published to a Thomas Campian
  “Babylon
  Streams” We will probably do an
  instrumental and the first two verses of the vocal in May.

May set

• Morley, Now is the Month of Maying
• Morley, April is
  in my Mistress Face We may drop this for May.
• Dowland, “Clear or
  Cloudy”. This one is also in the
  2004 book with the Tenor A section printed with the Quintus B section.
• Maybe Campian, “My love
  hath vowd hee will forsake mee” At March 1
  rehearsal, we decided that we will sing 4 verses, with solos on the A
  sections of 1-3. Everyone not playing the bass will sing all B
  sections, and the A section of verse 4. The bass part isn’t idiomatic
  for serpent, so it will be played by cello and/or viol.
• Morley “God
  Morrow, fair ladies of the May”
  This may be hard to learn in the time we have available, so a subset
  of the group may do it.
  The link I gave was to the original key; if we
  do it we’ll do it a third down, so use it from serpent.laymusic.org
  for now.

Drinking Songs

These are all in the
drinking songs book.
We’ll be selecting a 15 minute set for the Walk for Hunger, and
possibly also doing it at the BRS performance on April 2.

• Rounds
  • He that will an Alehouse keep
  • Let us drink and be merry
  • 5 reasons
  • He that drinks is immortal
  • Tis Women
  • I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
  • Slaves are they that heap up mountains
• To Anacreon in Heaven
• Quant je boy du vin claret tout tourne
• Vignon, Vignon
• Changeons propos
• Vive la serpe Make sure you have the
  version with one sharp.

I have ommitted several rounds that we could pretty easily work up,
so if anyone’s favorites aren’t here, let me know and I’ll add them.

I think at any particular performance, we wouldn’t do all of those,
but it’s good to have that many available.