Author: Laura Conrad

We played:

• Henry VIII,Pasttime with good company
• Holborne: The Honei-Suckle; The Marie-Golde
• Morley: Now is the month of Maying
• Dowland: Clear or cloudy, A shepherd in a shade
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno
• Sumer is icumin in

We will be meeting on Tuesday, November 23 at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.

We had proposed doing some of our less complicated polyphony as a sing-along session at NEFFA if it was in person, but nobody had said they were interested in doing it as an online session. NEFFA has now decided that they will be online only in April of 2022, so we are no longer thinking about that.

We played:

• Campian, Never weather-beaten saile
• Morley: Whither away so fast
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno
• Dietrich, Tota pulchra es
• Dowland: Fine knacks for ladies
• Estocart, Psaume CXXXVII
• Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Thanks to Sarah Mead for help on the transcription of Tota pulchra es.

We will be meeting Tuesday at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.

I was ensuring a free and fair election in Cambridge’s Ward 10, precinct 3, so I didn’t get there until people were putting their instruments away, but I’m told that we played:

• Senfl: Im Meyen
• Dowland, Clear or cloudy
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae
• Morley: Now is the month of Maying
• Isaac, Innsbruck
• Ravenscroft: Now God be with old Simeon

The meeting on Tuesday, November 9, will be at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.

There was no meeting. Nobody who had to drive more than three miles wanted to come.

Next week, November 2 is election day. I will be working at the polls, and can’t get there before 9 or so. Anne has offered to run the rehearsal until I get there if there’s a quorum. So if you want to come, let me, Anne, Wendy and Richard know. If enough people want to come, it will be at Wendy and Richard’s home in Arlington Center at 7:45 pm.

We played:

• Morley: It was a lover and his lass; Blow, shepherds, blow
• Lassus, In me transierunt irae tuae
• Holborne: The Honei-Suckle; The Marie-Golde; The night watch
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes

We will meet next Tuesday, October 26, at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are coming.

We played:

• Ravenscroft, Of all the birds
• Morley, Deep Lamenting
• Rhau, Dulces Exuviae
• Wise, Judith and Holofernes

We will meet on Tuesday, October 19, at 7:45 at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you’re coming.

I did put in the application for a NEFFA event. We’re applying for an in-person event, so we should know January 1 whether that will be possible for anyone, and should be told fairly soon thereafter whether our application has been accepted.

I have uploaded a page about the application, which contains a potential list of songs, a link to the information I submitted for the application, and will eventually have links to the booklet, list of performers, etc.

We played:

• Ravenscroft: We be three poor Mariners, Now God be with old Simeon
• Morley, Love learns by laughing
• Gibbons, For Deliverance from a public Sickness
• Obrecht, Tsat een meskin
• Isaac, Innsbruck

The Tuesday, October 12, meeting will be at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center at 7:45 pm. Please let me, Wendy, and Richard know if you are planning to come.

We played:

• Morley: Springtime mantleth every bough, Arise get up my dear
• Sermisy, Vive la serpe
• Wise, When the plague was in town
• Ravenscroft, Hey ho to the greenwood

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm. Our September 28 meeting will be at the home of Wendy Grey in Newton Corner. Please let both me and Wendy know if you want to come.

Enough people expressed interest in doing an in-person NEFFA program that I am working on a proposal. The current working title is Folk Polyphony: from the Tudors to the Georgians.

Let me know if you want to provide input.