The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is tomorrow,
Tuesday, August 16 at 7:45 at my place.
We’ll have a a new Dowland (although there are lots of things
interfering with my getting to it). It will be the last of the
“Pilgrim’s Solace” ones. I may or may not get the lute part
transcribed in time. This one has an instrumental bass accompaniment
so it isn’t as critical as with the previous two which had solos which
were unaccompanied except for the lute. If it’s me doing bass, you’re
better off with me playing a part on the serpent than floundering on
the keyboard. A keyboard player committing to coming will increase
the probably of the transcription happining.
I’ll also try to get a new dance set transcribed, but if not, we’ll
do an old dance set. Requests are welcome.
The big news of the week is that I’m rearranging the unwieldy
individual notebooks into unwieldy group notebooks. This means that
only I have to figure out where to find the music, and nobody has to
figure out how to balance the large notebooks on their music stands.
This will mean that it’s practical to finalize the Dowland Book 3
typesetting. I’m also noticing a lot of good music in the notebooks
that we haven’t done for a while, so we might dig out some old
favorites.
LayMusic.org 