Category: Cantabile

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band will take place on Tuesday, August 29, at 7:45 PM at my place.

I don’t know of any reason why we won’t be having our regular drop-in meetings for the next few weeks. The two election days (September 19 and November 7) are the only times in the next few months when I expect anything different.

We may continue to have 6-8 people for a while, so suggestions for five or six part music are welcome. I think there’s enough interest in the Gabrielli we’ve done at the last two meetings that we’ll continue that.

Last meeting

We played:

• Byrd Susanna fair
• 2 settings of Ein Feste Burg
• Gabrielli, Canzon II a 6
• Dowland group:
  • O sweet wood
  • Fine knacks for ladies
  • A shepherd in a shade
  • Clear or Cloudy
• Ravenscroft, He that will an alehouse keep

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band will be on Tuesday, August 22, at 7:45 PM at my place.

We may continue to have a larger number of players than usual, so if there are 6-8 part pieces you’d like to play, let me know.

Last Meeting

We played:

• Andrew Charlton Krummhorn arrangements:
  • Almaine by Thomas Strangthfield
  • My Thing is my Own, from Pills to Purge Melancholy
  • Triste España
  • Bon Jour Mon CÅ“ur
  • A Policeman’s Lot is not a Happy One
• Giovanni Gabrieli:
  • Exaudi Deus for 7 voices or instruments
  • Canzon II a 6 from Canzoni e Sonata (1615)
• Susato group

The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band will be on Tuesday, August 15, at my place.

We will again be doing our usual drop-in stuff, possibly with an unusual cast of characters, since it’s August and some regulars can’t make it and some non-regulars can.

We will have an unusually large amount of sight-reading material, because Hope brought over five large boxes of music that she is no longer using for her CCAE coaching. So if there’s something you want to do that you think we haven’t been doing because we didn’t have the music, let me know, and I’ll pull it out if I run into it going through the boxes

Last Meeting

We played:

• Glogauer Liederbuch: Es solt ein man
• Gervaise, Dix Bransles Gays
• Guidiccioni, Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno
• Tye, two In nomine‘s
• Holborne group
  • 64. Galliard: As it fell on a Holy Eve
  • 53. [Pavan:] Last Will and Testament
  • 40. Galliard
  • 63. Galliard: The Fairie-round
  • 34. Muy linda
• Dowland, A shepherd in a shade
• Dowland, Come, ye heavy states of Night
• Let us drink and be merry

We’re going to be missing a couple of regulars (Anne and Ishmael), but some people who don’t come very often have said they’d come tonight. So it should be a good night for trying out a bunch of new stuff.

Last week we did all but one of the pieces in the new Swan Songs book, so we’ll try to do the last one.

We’ll be doing drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at the usual time and place for the forseeable future.

Last meeting

We played:

• Both Silver Swan rounds
• Gibbons, Silver Swan
• Dowland, Me, me and none but me
• Dowland, All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid
• Arcadelt, Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno
• Vecchi, Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful dreams

Schedule

We’ll continue to meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place for the forseeable future. We’ll be doing our usual mix of familiar music and sightreading.

Last Meeting

We played:

• Silver Swan round in three parts
• Susato, Mille Regretz
• Josquin, Mille Regrets
• Byrd, Lord in thy rage rebuke me not
• Gibbons, In Nomine
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno
• Ravenscroft, O my fearful Dreams

The spelling of dueil in the Josquin Mille Regrets is indeed the one used in the Oxford Book of French Chansons.

The Wikipedia article about the In Nomine genre is here.

The concert Saturday was a success, and now we can resume our casual, drop-in sessions, with lots of sightreading exciting new music, and playing any old music people want to see again.  We will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25, at 7:45 PM at my place.

Bonnie and I have both been transcribing at close to our usual  rate, and we haven’t been having time to check it all out, so there are several new things to try.  I think there’s some Ravenscroft that we haven’t done, and I’ve done the Josquin Mille regrets.  I’ve also done an Orlando Gibbons In Nomine.  And of course, there are several things we’ve tried and haven’t had time to work on like the new Byrd (Lord in thy Rage rebuke me not) and the Jenkins Pavanne‘s.

If we do feel like working on something specific, I’d like to solidify the Swan set.

If there’s something specific you’ve been looking forward to singing now that we’re singing anything we want to, let me know so that I can have the music out instead of fumbling for it in rehearsal.

Concert report

It was a good concert, and we helped make that happen.  The compliments I got afterwards specifically mentioned that they liked hearing the singing with the cello.

I was pleasantly surprised with the variety in the other sets.  I especially liked the Shaker dance demonstration and the solo singer who sang some of the tunes in the Primitive Baptist style.

Last meeting

As expected, we worked mostly on the program for Sunday’s concert, but we finished our second run-through with 15 minutes to spare, so we sang Come again.

The July 18th meeting is restricted to the players on the July 22 performance. Everyone else is welcome to join us next week, July 25, when we resume our regularly scheduled dropin meetings.

Last meeting

At our last meeting, we played:

• Ingalls group
• La Marseillaise
• More Ingalls
• The Silver Swan

The meeting will be mostly a rehearsal for the July 22 performance. We may have time for a little bit of other stuff (I like singing La Marseillaise this time of year, and I’ve improved the Browning we did last week), but basically, we’re going to get the Ingalls route decided on and run it a couple of times. So if you aren’t performing, you’re welcome to come, but I don’t know that I’d bother if I had to go any distance.

Last meeting

We did:

• Ingalls group:

• Millennium
• Friendship
• Night Thought

Browning

Swan group

• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Vecchi, Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Gibbons, The Silver Swan