The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, September 27 at 7:45 PM at my place.
This will be the last dropins-welcome meeting for a while, since we
have gigs in October and November that will require some real
reheasing with some approximation of the people who are going to
play. So if you’ve been wanting to see what we’re like, come now. If
you want to play the gigs, start coming now. If you don’t want to
play the gigs, but will miss us when we’re working on them, come now.
We’ll be mainly working on the music for the gigs, but other
requests are welcome.
Preliminary playlist for Merry Wives of Windsor
Based on the comments on last
week’s list, here’s a new version:
Before the play
- Daphne (We’re going to try a different arrangement this week)
- He that will an Alehouse Keep
- O Portsmouth
- Quand je Bois
- All in a Garden Green
- Vignons, vignons
- Playford set, probably including Newcastle
- Fanfare, TBD
Intermission
- Greensleeves (This will include the “Division on a Ground”
version, maybe a couple of sung verses, and maybe the Charlton
arrangement for 2 recorders, although that’s pretty obviously
anachronistic. (So is the Division on a Ground, but by fewer
centuries.) - Fair Phyllis
- Silly Bees
- Shepherd in a shade
- Changeons propos
- Vive la Serpe
- Estans Assis
- Another dance set, probably Playford, suggestions welcome. The advantage of Playford is that we have 3-part
arrangements that some of us know pretty well. Since some of the
people who can play can’t play every performance, we want to keep this
as simple and fool-proof as possible.
Can anyone who has copies of “Piper’s Fancy” bring them? I’m going
to transcribe the Daphne setting so that we can put it in the same key
we’re singing, but there’s no reason not to just use the others if
they turn out to be what we want.
I’ve started a directory for transcriptions for this gig — if you want to
see what’s done so far it’s
here.
There was some interest in doing the 25-verse ballads that are
mentioned in the play. We can look at them, and we are committed to
doing some of Greensleeves. The problem is that 25-verse ballads work
better when you have an audience that’s listening and can hear the
words, so I’m not sure this is the right venue for them. But we’ll
see what we can come up with.
Other News
I believe the Boston
Recorder Society still has openings in most of their groups, if
you want to do more music with some good professional coaches.
There’s a possibility of a gig on June 21 playing background music
for an opening of an art exhibition at Bridgewater State College.
The New
England Sacred Harp Singing Convention is this Friday and Saturday
in Newton. If you don’t normally do enough singing, this is a good
place to remedy that.
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