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We’ll be having regular dropin meetings for the rest of March, that is, March 18 and 25. These will be at my place and start at 7:45 PM.
For the month of April, meetings will be restricted to people performing at the Walk for Hunger.
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We will be continuing our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place through the month of March. In April, all meetings will be restricted to the people who are playing the Walk for Hunger on May 4.
Note that because Easter is early this year, it will happen before we get really started on the Walk for Hunger music. So if there’s Easter music people really love and would like to do with this group, bring it, or let me know and I can try to dig it out of somewhere. I’ll be getting out the Billings Easter Anthem.
Come come, let’s begin by Thomas Weelkes, was one of the first pieces I transcribed for this website. I’ve now updated it to a modern version of lilypond, and put up a version a fourth down. There are also some note fixes.
There’s an important note fix to Fortuna desperata.
And there’s not so much a note fix as a reformating to remove unnecessary clef changes in the version of Gabrielli’s Canzon II a 6 which is transposed down a fourth.
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Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4).
We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.
We played:
Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4). So far, I have one “yes”, one “probably”, and one “maybe the first set”. I’m fine with a trio, but a duo would be pretty hard work, so I’d want to start twisting ringers’ arms.
We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.
The Walk for Hunger is always the first Sunday in May, this year May 4. We are usually scheduled for the slot from 10 AM to 3 PM. We work up a one hour set, and find another group with a one hour set, and we alternate with them. For the first hour, people who want to play solos and duets are welcome to play informally.
Thomas Weelkes, Strike it up, Tabor, and also a version down a third. This is a piece about being a Morris Dance team leader on Mayday, so we may play it at the Walk for Hunger.
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Regular dropin rehearsals on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place until some time in March. At that point we will switch to real rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger, and any other spring events we can find to play at.
Please remember that I need to know by the beginning of March who will be performing at the Walk for Hunger. So far, I haven’t heard anyone commit themselves. It’s kind of a long time to play solo recorder music, so I hope I get some company.
We did a double tenorlied by Ludwig Senfl, so we also did settings of the two tunes used as the tenors.
We played:
Our regular dropin rehearsals will continue on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. At some point in March, these will become non-dropin rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger program. Please remember that I need to know by early March who will be performing at the Walk for Hunger.
Hayne van Gizeghem, De tous biens plaine. I was at a concert where they did a full set of pieces written on this tune, and felt I would have enjoyed it more if I’d known the tune better. The great jazz improvizers always used tunes that the great jazz vocalists had put across to the audience, but the early music crowd thinks you should learn the tune in your recorder group. This was the first setting they played, so I had my group play it. The hard part is finding where the next verse is.
There are also some minor underlay fixes to Come, gentle swains.
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