Category: Cantabile

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles de Champaigne
• Dowland group:
  • Time stands still
  • It was a time when Silly Bees could
    speak
  • His golden Locks
  • Lachrimae Gementes
  • Lachrimae Tristes
  • Lachrimae Coactae
• Rounds:
  • Cider Round
  • Let us drink and be merry

Schedule

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

Other events

The Boston
Recorder Society is having a summer meeting tonight,
Wednesday, August 25 at 25 Colgate Road, Roslindale, starting at 7:30. Tom Zajac
will be coaching.

The Wakefield Summer Band, with me on horn, will be playing a
concert at the bandstand on the South side of Lake Quannapowitt on
Friday at 7 PM.

Héloïse Degrugillier is offering a Renaissance Ensemble for low
intermediate recorder
players this summer.
It will meet four times in Winchester July 28, August 4, 11, and 18 from 10:30
to 1pm.
For more information please email Heloise: hdegrugillier@yahoo.com or call 781
507-4891

Justin Godoy is offering a class on improvising over ground basses for upper
intermediate to advanced players. We will meet four times in Winchester July
28, August 4, 11, and 18 from 1:30 to 3pm.
For more information please email Justin: justigodoy@yahoo.com or call 781
507-4890

We played:

• D’Estrees, Pavane Lesquercade
• Pavana Desperada
• da Nola Chi chi li chi
• Ich kumm aus fremden Landen her
• Encina Triste España
• Obrecht Tsat een meskin
• Isaac Helogierons nous
• Ponce Allegria, allegria
• Crecquillon Plaisir n’ay plus
• Purcell A
  rebus upon Mr. Anthony Hall,
• La Marseillaise

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place for the forseeable future.

We played:

• Morley, Sweet nymph, come to thy lover
• Susato group:
  • Den hoboecken dans
  • De Post
  • Danse de Hercules oft maticine
  • De Matrigale
  • Allemaingne I-VIII
• Cavendish, Come, Gentle Swains
• Dowland group:
  • Lachrimae
    Antiquae
  • Lachrimae
    Antiquae Novae
  • Lachrimae
    Gementes
• Rounds:
  • Purcell, Well Rung Tom
  • To Portsmouth
  • Purcell, Five Reasons

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place. for the forseeable future.

We played:

• Susato group:
  • Rondes
  • Saltarelle
  • Les quatre Branles
  • Fagot
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
• En m’esbatant/Gracieuse plaisant mousniére/Gente fleur de noblesse
• Dowland group:
  • 
    Flow not so fast yee fountaines,
  • 
    What if I never speede,
  • 
    Love stood amazed
• Purcell, Sir Walter, enjoying his damsel one night
• Cider Round
• Purcell, I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
• Three wise men of Boston

Schedule

The party on July 6 will start at about 6. We’ll eat for a
while, start playing by 8 and eat some more after we stop playing
at 10. It’s pot luck, so let me know if you’re coming and what
you’re bringing.

I don’t know of any reason we won’t be having regular meetings
every Tuesday at 7:45 at the usual
place.

Other events

The Wakefield Summer Band (with me on horn) will be playing its
first concert on Friday, July 13, at 7 PM at the Bandstand on the
south shore of Lake Quanapowitt.

I managed to smoke out someone else who wanted a party, so there will be one on July 6. We’ll have dinner about 6 and plan to start playing by 8. People who want only dinner and not playing, or only playing and not dinner are welcome. The “usual place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html. Potluck, so let me know if you’re coming and what you’re bringing.

We played:

• Gervaise, Dix Bransles Gai
• En m’esbatant/Gracieuse plaisant mousniére/Gente fleur de noblesse
• Sermisy group:
  • Je ne mange point de porc
  • Vive la serpe
  • Changeons propos
  • Vignons, vignons
  • Quand je bois du vin claret
• Purcell, Sir Walter, enjoying
• Cider round

Schedule

We’ll continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.

There’s a possibility that Ishmael will be able to come to the picnic on Saturday, June 30, in which case he, Bonnie, and Laura will sing some of the three-part drinking songs. Otherwise, Bonnie and Laura will just jam with whoever else comes.

I’ve heard no enthusiasm for another party in the next couple of weeks, so we’ll think about scheduling one in August.

Other events

The Boston Recorder Society will have a summer meeting tonight, June 27
at 7:30 at 25 Colgate Road in Roslindale. Steve Lundahl will be coaching. The summer meetings are free and open to singers and other instruments as well as to recorder players.

We played:

• Chi chi li chi
• Juan del Encina, Triste España
• Ich kumm aus fremden Landen her
• Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
• Wilbye:
  • Weep, o mine eyes
  • Draw on sweet night
• Purcell Sir Walter enjoying
• Ravenscroft, He that will an alehouse keep

Schedule

We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place for the forseeable future.

There may be another party on one of the first two weekends in July; if you have a preference as to date and time, let me know.

It’s still an option for a few people to play something at the Boston Wort Processors June picnic on June 30, but we’d have to decide by Tuesday and run some stuff at the meeting.

We played:
* Auprés de vous
** Four part version (Sermisy)
** Basse Dance (Gervaise)
* Wilbye:
** Weep O mine eyes
** Draw on Sweet night

h3. Schedule

We will not be meeting on Tuesday, June 12. To find out what people are doing instead, go to “my site blog”:http://www.laymusic.org/wordpress/ to read or write about “The Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org.

After that, we resume our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM.

We played:
* ??Aupres de vous:??
** Two part version
** Three part version
* Cavendish, ??Come gentle Swains??
* Gabrielli, ??Canzon a 6??
* ??Slaves are they that heap up mountains??

h2. Party plans

It’s Saturday, June 2, starting at about 5 PM. If the weather is nice, we’ll eat in the back yard. In any case, we’ll move upstairs when we start playing, probably at about 7, or whenever people are mostly through eating.

I now have a couple of people saying what they want to bring, so I can say something more useful than “Whatever you want to,” if you ask me what you should bring. In any case, let me know whether you’re coming, and what you’d like to bring.

h2. Schedule

We will meet as usual next week, on Tuesday, June 5, at 7:45 PM at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html.

The following week, June 12, we will not be meeting, because of the “Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org.

After that, we’ll be having our regular meetings on Tuesdays for the forseeable future.

I haven’t heard a lot of interest in going as a group to the “Wort Processors”:http://www.wort.org picnic on June 30. Unless that changes, we won’t plan anything.

h2. Guest Bloggers wanted

I’m going to be “blogging”:http://laymusic.org/wordpress/?cat=19 from “BEMF”:http://www.bemf.org. If you want to blog too, let me know, and I’ll give you an account that lets you post entries about your own experiences at BEMF. In any case, your comments on the posts are welcome.

We played:

* Chédeville:
** Les Jumeaux
** Le Bosquet de Flore
** Marche des Signes
** La Sandrillon
* Morley:
** Good morrow, fair ladies of the May
** See, See, Myne Owne Sweet Jewel}
** Joy, joy doth so arise
** Crewell you pull away to soone
** Ladie, those eies
** Hould out my hart
* Cavendish, Come,Gentle Swains
* Purcell, ??Down with Bacchus??

h3. Schedule

* May 29, regular meeting, 7:45 PM.
* June 2, Party, 5 PM to whenever.
* June 5, regular meeting, 7:45 PM.
* June 12, no meeting, “Boston Early Music Festival”:http://www.bemf.org
* June 19, regular meeting, 7:45 PM.
* June 25, regular meeting, 7:45 PM.
* June 30, “Wort Processors”:http://www.wort.org June Picnic
* July 3, regular meeting, 7:45 PM.

I don’t know of any reason not to have our regular meetings every Tuesday all summer. But of course, something might come up.