[cantabile] Plans for the November 22 meeting

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is on Tuesday,
November 22, at 7:45 PM at my place. This meeting is limited to
people doing the Lowell
gig on December 1. We’ll go back to being a drop-in group in December.

Below is a less 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. Five Reasons
  3. He that drinks is immortal
  4. I gave her cakes
  5. To Portsmouth
  6. Slaves are they
  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
  • Stay time a while they flying (Dowland, Pilgrims’ solace) We can
    try it to see if we can learn it in three weeks.
  • Never weather-beaten saile
• 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
  • Fine Knacks for Ladies
  • Burst Forth my tears
  • Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May
  • Silly Bees
  • Come again

Note that I’ve left out the Morley 2-voice canzonets on the grounds
that they will probably be part of one of the “break” sets. If this
doesn’t happen, we’ll add Girandola and Miraculous Love’s Wounding (at
least) to
the Madrigal set.

I think this is enough music that we can dump anything that doesn’t
go well on the 22nd, and not waste time on it on the 29th. If (when) we turn
out to need more rehearsal time, I’m hoping that Thanksgiving weekend
has some unscheduled time in it. I’m certainly expecting the 10-15
minute break sets to be rehearsed outside of our normal rehearsal
time.

I had been thinking that if we split into groups of two, Bonnie and
I would be one group, on the grounds that we’ve done a lot of duets
together over the years, but on further reflection, that would put the
two best bass line players in one group, so I’m thinking that Bonnie
and Anne could do a really good ballad set with Bonnie on viol, and
there are a lot of things Paul and I could do, and I’ll probably be
going to Fall River sometime before the concert, so we could get
together for a southern rehearsal.