The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, October 4, at 7:45 PM at my place.
Until mid-November, our rehearsals are restricted to people who are
performing at one of our October or November gigs. You don’t have to
come to all the rehearsals, but please let me know by next week
whether you’re playing and which dates you want to play.
I got some work done on a couple of umpteen-verse ballads that
are mentioned in “Merry Wives of Windsor”. Look at the
Greensleeves book, and the
Dulcina book. We aren’t going to do all of those verses, but if
you see one or two you’d especially like to sing, now is the time to
lay claim. If anyone feels like doing more “arranging” than is there
(i.e., any at all for Dulcina, and more than a bass line for
Greensleeves), please feel free.
I think we should plan to have a real play list for the October 15
gig by the end of tomorrow night. Since it’s outdoors, I’d like to
concentrate heavily on things we can sing a capella in a tight
circle, so that we don’t get all spread out with music stands and not
able to hear each other.
So here’s a tentative list:
- Sheep (and bee) set
- Fair Phyllis *
- Burst Forth my tears * §
- Dulcina
- It was a time when silly bees could speak * §
- A shepherd in a shade *
- Drinking Songs
- Changeons propos
- He that will an alehouse keep
- Five reasons §
- He that drinks is immortal §
- I gave her cakes §
- Vignon, vignon
- Slaves are they * §
- Vive la serpe *
- O Portsmouth
- Quant je boy
- Let us drink and be merry §
* these are four parts, so if we don’t have four people, we won’t
do them.
§ Probably not on the November program either because of being an
inappropriate feeling, or from too late of a date.
This is probably too much, so we’ll cut some of the things that
don’t sound as good. Although if we aren’t doing instrumental verses,
it will go faster.
Most of the hard stuff on this list will also be on the November
list,
LayMusic.org 