[cantabile] Plans for the November 15 meeting

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is on Tuesday,
November 15, at 7:45 PM at my place. This meeting is limited to
peopld doing the Lowell
gig on December 1. We’ll go back to being a drop-in group in December.

Below is a tentative playlist. Please feel free to make
suggestions for additions or deletions.

• Winter is icumen in (We’ll have to experiment with whether it
  makes sense to have one, two, or zero drones given four performers.
  We might start out with the serpent and rackett in canon, and then
  drop one or more of them.
• Three blind mice
• Drinking rounds from October 15 set:
  1. He that will an alehouse keep
  2. He that drinks is immortal
  3. I gave her cakes
  4. Slaves are they
  5. Vive la serpe
  6. To Portsmouth
  7. Let us drink and be merry
• Death set:
  • Silver Swan (we can see if this makes sense given only 4
    performers. If it’s really Michal’s gallery, maybe she’ll want to sit
    in.)
  • Me, me and none but me
  • Never weather-beaten saile
  • Stay time a while they flying (Dowland, Pilgrims’ solace) We can
    try it to see if we can learn it in three weeks.
• Break sets:
  Anne might be willing to do an unaccompanied set. If she decides
  not to, we’ll split into groups of two, and do duets. If she wants
  to, Bonnie, Paul, and I will do a set of recorder trios while Anne
  takes her break. We’re thinking about either Pipers’ Fancy or the
  Charlton Gilbert and Sullivan arrangements.
• Madrigal set:
  • Fair Phyllis
  • Shepherd in a Shade
  • Morley (two and three voice canzonets. If Bonnie and I are doing
    duets, we’ll have a lot of two-voice ones in the break sets.
  • Country dances
  • Come again