Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Susato, Danse d’Hercules/De Matrigale
• Willaert, Ricercar X
• Weelkes, Hark, all ye lovely Saints above
• Wilbye, Weep, o mine eyes
• Rounds:
  • Ghost of John
  • Judith and Holifernes
  • He that would an alehouse keep
  • Let us drink and be merry
  • To Portsmouth
  • Cakes and Ale

Schedule

The November 6 meeting will be at the home of Stuart Solloway, near Teale Square in Somerville. He will be sending directions to the list. Bonnie has several of our notebooks in her car, but if you’re coming and have something particular you want to do, it might make sense to print several copies and bring them.

After that, our regularly scheduled dropin sessions at my place will resume on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM.

Memorizing

We will be working on memorizing some of the easier things in our repertoire, with an eye to doing more of our performance with less note reading and less music stand setup time and space. So if you want to perform with us, you might be interested in memorizing:

• At least one part of the Susato Danse D’Hercules/De Matrigale
• Several of our more common rounds

If you’re only doing the group as a dropin and sightreading group, we will continue to have music available for people who haven’t memorized it.

Arrival etiquette

Please remember that the official start time of our meetings is 7:45 PM. If you arrive after that and have complicated setup and tuning before you can start playing, please consider doing it in the living room, rather than keeping other people who have arrived and set up promptly from playing.

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles Gais
• Willaert, Ricercar X
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
• Mundy, My prime of youth
• Rounds:
  • Judith and Holifernes
  • Let us drink and be merry
  • He that will an Alehouse keep
  • He that drinks is immortal
  • To Portsmouth

Schedule

We will be having our regularly scheduled drop-in rehearsals on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

An exception is Tuesday, November 6, which is election day. I will be working as Clerk of Precinct 10-3 in Cambridge, so I can’t run a rehearsal. We will discuss whether people want to have one anyway at the rehearsal tomorrow, October 30. If you want to host or attend one on November 6, but can’t make October 30, let me know.

We played:

• Susato group:
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
  • Danse d Hercules oft maticine/De Matrigale
  • Rondes I – V
  • Den hoboecken dans
  • De Post
  • Ronde VI, Salterelle, Rondes VII – IX
• Parabosco, Da Pacem
• Je ne mange point de porc
• Vive la serpe
• Vignons, vignons
• Quand je bois du vin claret
• Rounds:
  • Cider round
  • To Portsmouth
  • He that drinks is immortal
  • Cakes and Ale
  • He that will an Alehouse keep
  • ’tis Women
  • Let us drink and be merry
  • Slaves are they that heap up mountains

Schedule

Note that next week’s rehearsal is limited to the people performing at the Cider Picnic on October 20.

After that, we resume our regularly scheduled drop-in rehearsals on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

We played:

• Susato, Rondes I-IX, Saltarelle
• Quand je Bois
• Vignons, Vignons
• Vive la Serpe
• Je ne mange point de porc
• Susato:
  • Danse d Hercules/De Matrigale
  • Den hoboecken dans
  • De Post
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
• Pilkington, Rest, sweet nymphs
• Wilbye, Weep, o mine eyes
• Rounds:
  • He that drinks is immortal
  • Cakes and Ale
  • ’tis Women
  • To Portsmouth

Schedule

We will be having regular dropin meetings at 7:45 on Tuesdaysat
the usual place.

The October 16 meeting will be limited to, and compulsory
for,those playing on October 20 at the cider picnic.

We played:

• Susato group:
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
  • Den hoboecken dans
  • De Post
  • Danse de Hercules oft maticine and De
    Matrigale
  • Rondes I – IX
  • Salterelle
• Sermisy, Vive la Serpe
• Vignons, vignons
• Quand je bois
• Je ne mange point de Porc
• Mundey, My Prime of Youth
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune hath
  betrayed
• Ravenscroft/Conrad, Humans are so slow

Schedule

We will be having regular dropin meetings at 7:45 on Tuesdays at the usual place.

The October 16 meeting will be limited to, and compulsory for, those playing on October 20 at the cider picnic.

We played:

We played:

• Susato group:
  • Rondes I-IX
  • Salterelle
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
  • Den hoboecken dans
• Dowland:
  • Lachrimae Verae
  • Semper Dowland, semper dolens
• Drinking Songs:
  • Quant je boy du vin claret tout tourne
  • Vignon, vignon, vignon, vignette
  • Changeons propos, c’est trop chanté d’amour
  • Vive la serpe
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de Porc
• Rounds:
  • Wise, Judith and Holifernes
  • Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

We will continue our regularly scheduled dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

The known exception to that is that the October 16th meeting is restricted to and compulsory for the people who will be performing on October 20. At the moment, the performers are me, Bonnie, Barney, Christine and maybe Ishmael. If you aren’t on that list and want to perform, let me know immediately.

We played:

• Susato, Pavannes from Danserie
• Dowland:
  • Lacrimae Antiquae.
  • Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  • Lachrimae Gementes
  • Lachrimae Tristes
  • Lachrimae Coactae
  • Lachrimae Amantis
  • Lacrimae verae.
  • Semper Dowland, semper dolens
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful dreams

Schedule

We’ll continue to meet on Tuesdays at the usual time (7:45 PM)
and place.

Anyone who’s interested in playing at the Ciderfest
on October 20, should let me know before our next meeting on
September 18.

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles de Champaigne
• Holborne:
  • Muy Linda
  • Galliard
• Arcadelt, Il Bianco e dolce Cigno
• Vecchi, Il Bianco e dolce Cigno
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune
• Dowland, Me, me and none but me
• Gibbons, The Silver Swan
• Campion, Never weather-beaten Saile
• Cider Round
• Wise, Judith and Holifernes
• Purcell, 5 Reasons
• Purcell, He that drinks is immortal
• Berg, Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

We’ll be continuing our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

Next week, September 11, we’ll be doing a special meeting with the complete Dowland Lachrimae. Please bring anyone you think might enjoy doing this. We have lute tablature, if you know a good lutenist or classical guitarist.

Performing

The Boston Wort Processors annual Ciderfest will be on Saturday, October 20, at Carlson Orchards in Harvard, Massachusetts. If people would like to play for it, I don’t think it would be difficult to work up a 45 minute set with some dance music and some drinking songs. I can’t put together a playlist until I know how many people can come, so please let me know before our September 18 meeting if you want to go. I’m not anticipating this disrupting our meeting schedule much — at most we might make the October 16 meeting performers only.

Other events

The first West Gallery Quire workshop of the year will be on Sunday, September 16, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Please note that this in a one-time only deviation from the usual second Sunday of the month meeting. If you’ve given people flyers or sent them email with the September 9 date, please tell them about the change.

The first Boston Recorder Society meeting of the year will be on Sunday, September 23 from 7-9:30 PM. This meeting is free, and you will have a chance to check out a couple of the groups. (If you don’t play recorder, you might still want to check out the Joyful Noise group for all singers and instrumentalists.)

We played:

• Gervaise, XIV Bransles de Champagne
• Holborne, Hermosa
• Johnson, Full Fathom Five
• Pilkington, Rest, sweet Nymphs
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
• Gabrielli, Canzon á six
• Wise, Judith and Holifernes
• Purcell, ‘ Tis Women

Schedule

We will be meeting at the usual time (7:45 PM) and place (directions) on Tuesdays for the forseeable future.

We noticed that this year we will be meeting on September 11. We ran through the Dowland Lachrimae Pavans this summer a couple at a time, so we’ve decided that this is a good excuse to play them all at once.

People who play a chordal instrument (lute, keyboard, harp, guitar), and who aren’t always sure they would be useful, should be assured that there will be something for them to do that day.

We played:

• Gervaise, X Bransles de Champagne
• Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Isum, Celia learning upon the spinet
• Purcell, He that drinks is immortal

Schedule

We’ll be having our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place for the forseeable future.