It was good to play for an experienced pair of ears like John’s.
We worked on establishing a tuning routine for the strings, and on
having the instrumentalists as well as the singers be more sensitive
to the words, and on having everybody be more aware that they’re
telling a story.
We played:
- Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
- Morley, April is in my mistress’ face
- Dowland, Me, me and none but me
- Dowland, Clear or cloudy
Future plans
We still haven’t completely settled the orchestration for the April
performance. If Barney can make it to the March 22 rehearsal to stand
in for Bruce (I know he doesn’t play trombone, but he sings in the same
range and can play the recorder parts), we should be able to decide
that, and then work intensely on that program on March 29.
Corrections to the music
We found two errors in the printed music.
-
The Bassus in April is
in my mistress’ face has an F in the wrong octave in measure 25, and
should be either corrected by hand or
printed from www.laymusic.org. - The Cantus part in “Me, me and none but me” has two eighth notes
in measure 20 that are a step up from where they should be. This
should be printed from laymusic.org.
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