I went on a lounge lizard slither with my “brewing friends”:http://www.wort.org last night, and after I’d had enough to drink (a little single-malt scotch goes a long way) I ordered a chocolate meringue tart at the Oak Room. It came garnished with this orchid, and I managed to wrap it in a napkin and take it home without getting it too squished.
We played:
* Marcello ??Sonata III??
* Charlton group:
** ??Mon coeur se recommande a vous??
** ??British Grenadiers??
* Gervais ??14 Bransles??
* ??To Drive the Cold Winter Away??
* ??Pasttime with Good Company??
* Dowland Group:
** ??Mistress Nichols Almand??
** ??M Bucton his Galiard??
** ??M george Whitehead his Almand??
* Gabrielli, ??Canzon septimi toni a 8??
* Wilbye, ??Weep, O mine eyes??
* ??I sat next to the Duchess at tea??
h3. Schedule
Here’s the schedule for the Spring. Note that if you’re hesitating about committing to performing until you know what repertoire we’re doing, I can’t decide on the repertoire until I know who’s playing. Specifically, I’d like to do a lot of 5-part Dowland using the big recorders for the Recorder Society, but I can’t do that unless we get at least 4 and preferably 5 recorder players.
* February 13, 20, and 27: regular dropin rehearsals.
* February 27: I need to know whether you’re playing the Play the Recorder day, and whether you’re considering playing the Walk for Hunger.
* March 6 and 13: rehearsal for those playing either gig.
* March 20: rehearsal compulsory for and limited to those playing the Play the recorder day gig on March 24.
* March 20: I need a commitment for who’s playing the Walk for Hunger.
* Saturday, March 24, Play the Recorder Day performance at the Allston Public Library.
* March 27, all rehearsals in April: limited to those playing the Walk for Hunger.
* Sunday, May 6, Walk for Hunger
* May 8: dropin rehearsals resume.
Please sign up for either gig only if you think you will be able to make most of the March and April rehearsals, and to treat the group like a serious performing group and not like a dropin group.
Go to the “Laymusic lulu store”:http://stores.lulu.com/laymusic to download it for a small fee or order hard copy for a slightly larger fee.
Here’s the “Table of Contents”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-III.html.
None of these are really new, but they seem to have fallen through the cracks and never gotten up on the site. They’re up because of doing the Tables of Contents for the “Drinking Songs”:http://www.laymusic.org/drinking.html, and Dowland “Book I”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html and “Book II”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-II.html, and the upcoming Book III.
From Drinking Songs:
* He that will an alehouse keep
* Five Reasons
* To Anacreon in Heaven
* To Portsmouth
From Dowland Book I:
* Can she excuse my wrongs
* Come heavy sleepe the image of true death;
From Dowland Book II:
* XV. White as Lillies was hir face,
* XVI. Wofull hart with griefe oppressed,
* XVIII. Faction that ever dwells
* XIX. Shall I sue
* XXII. Humor say what mak’st thou heere
From Dowland Book III:
* Say love if ever thou didst find,
* Flow not so fast ye fountains,
* Love Stood Amazed
* Lend your ears to my sorrow
* By a fountain where I lay
* O what hath overwrought
* Farewell, unkind, farewell
* Weep you no more sad fountains
* Fie on this faining
* I must complain
* Come when I call,
We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Dowland group:
** ??M. Giles Hobies Galliard??
** ??M. Nicholas Gryffiths his Galliard??
* Swans:
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
* Rounds:
** ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??
** ??Sumer (winter) is icumen in??
We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.
Note that this means that you need to decide by the end of February whether you’re performing or not. Remember that when we turn into a performing group, we stop being a drop in group. This means that we treat rehearsal time as a precious resource, and in consideration for both the audience and the other group members we arrive on time, have our own copies of the music which we keep in good order, and segregate the social and the musical parts of the evening more rigorously.
You can download the PDF for a small fee, or order a hardcopy for a slightly larger fee at the laymusic lulu store.
You can see the Table of Contents.
I promised when I put the ??Drinking Songs?? and Dowland’s ??Book I?? on the laymusic lulu.com store that I would make it easy to download the contents individually, for people who really didn’t want to pay even a nominal (roughly $2) download fee.
I now have tables of contents for both books:
Unfortunately, some of the drinking songs are source only. Let me know if this is a problem for you.
We played:
* Durante, ??Danza, danza fanciulla gentile??
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Telemann, ??Sonata in C major??
* Mundey, ??My prime of youth??
* Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* ??He that will an alehouse keep??
We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.
We played:
* Campian ??When Laura smiles??
* Mozart ??Andante?? arranged by David Goldstein
* ??Ami souffrez que je vous aime??, Composer unknown, mid-sixteenth century
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Swan group:
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* Stafford, ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??
h3. Schedule
We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.
We played:
* Marcello, Sonata III
* Morley:
** Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May
** Deep Lamenting
* Dowland:
** Flow my tears
** Lachrimae Antiquae
** Lachrimae Coactae
** O sweet Wood
** Fine Knacks for Ladies
* Rounds:
** Slaves are they that heap up Mountains
** He that drinks is immortal
h3. Schedule
We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the “Play the Recorder Day event”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451 or the “Walk for Hunger”:http://www.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_main.
By the end of February, we should have a reasonably good idea what the programs for those events will be, so let me know if there’s something you especially want to play. Also, you will need to decide by then whether you’re playing either or both events, so that we can decide on a program.
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