The Cantabile Renaissance Band
The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, September 13 at 7:45 PM at my place.
We need to start getting a playlist (and group list) for the October
and November gigs, so we’ll run some drinking songs, pastoral songs,
Playford and Babylon. We will consider whether we can use the same
play list for both gigs.
We played:
We still need to get more commitments from performers before we can
set up playlists for either the October 15 or the
November 11-13 and 17-19 gigs. But I’ll do my best to set up
tentative ones next week after I’ve talked to the Theatre First people.
The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, September 6 at 7:45 PM at my place.
We need to start getting a playlist (and group list) for the
October and November gigs, so we’ll run some drinking songs, pastoral
songs, Playford and Babylon. We said last week that we’d run the last
two Dowland’s which are sort of a group, but we may postpone that
depending on who shows up.
The whole block is posted with emergency parking bans because the
water department is digging up the street. These only
last until 3 PM today and tomorrow, so if they haven’t left the whole
street dug up, you should find it easier to park than usual.
The next rehearsal of the Cantabile Renaissance band will be on
Tuesday, August 30 at 7:45 PM at my place.
Last week Hope found us a Rameau drinking song that looks fun to
learn. It should help bridge the Purcell drinking songs into the 16th
century French ones, as well as giving us some practice on chromatic
harmonies that will help with the later Dowlands.
We also have postponed the last “Pilgrim’s Solace” piece for long
enough, so we’ll do it, regardless.
Requests are welcome. I’m thinking of a drinking group and a
shepherd/pastoral group for the Ciderfest performance, but we may want
to work in some dance music as well.
We played:
The Wort Processor’s Ciderfest will be on October 15 at Russell
Orchards in Ipswich. We will be deciding what to play over the next
couple of weeks, and to do that we need to know who will be playing.
Let me know as soon as you can if you’d like to play. There will be
at least one and possibly as many as three compulsory rehearsals for
this performance.
There is also a strong possibility of a gig in November playing in
conjunction with a production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at Theatre First in Davis
Square. I’ll be talking to them about repertoire, etc. next week.
The easy thing would be some drinking songs and Playford dances, but
if we wanted to get fancy, there’d be a possibility of a “rivers of
Babylon” and/or a Susannah group, since both of those are referred to
in the play. In any case, start thinking about whether you would want
to do a gig on November 11-13 and 17-19.
We have the new Dowland, Cease these False Sports.
Anne is not going to be there, so we may not have anyone who only
sings, so it might be a good time to do some of our instrumental
repertoire. There’s at least one Holborne that we haven’t done;
there’s all the Dowland Pavannes, there’s been a recent request for
Gabrielli…
In addition, several people who aren’t regulars are planning to
come, so if they all actually make it, we’ll be able to do five and
six part stuff. Requests are welcome.
We don’t yet have a date for the Wort Processors Ciderfest, but it
will likely be in late October. I’m thinking about the sheep group,
so we may run some of those (Fair Phyllis, Burst forth my tears…).
We had a local maximum for recent years of 10 people attending. So
we were able to do some 5-part stuff with both 4-foot and 8-foot
choirs.
We did:
I don’t know of any upcoming events to disrupt our normal weekly
schedule for the next few weeks. When we have a date for the
ciderfest, we’ll probably schedule a few meetings to prepare for that,
some of which will be open only to people who want to play there.
Judith Conrad is playing a clavichord concert on Sunday. Details
on the
BRS calendar.
We did:
We didn’t do the 5-part new Dowland because there were only 4 of
us. So we have that for next week, and there are a couple more from
book 3 that I want to check for range.
Those for whom the beer drinking part of the Renaissance Band experience is of
interest might want to drop in at the Boston Wort Processors
annual Pub Crawl on Saturday, August 20.
The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is tomorrow,
Tuesday, August 16 at 7:45 at my place.
We’ll have a a new Dowland (although there are lots of things
interfering with my getting to it). It will be the last of the
“Pilgrim’s Solace” ones. I may or may not get the lute part
transcribed in time. This one has an instrumental bass accompaniment
so it isn’t as critical as with the previous two which had solos which
were unaccompanied except for the lute. If it’s me doing bass, you’re
better off with me playing a part on the serpent than floundering on
the keyboard. A keyboard player committing to coming will increase
the probably of the transcription happining.
I’ll also try to get a new dance set transcribed, but if not, we’ll
do an old dance set. Requests are welcome.
The big news of the week is that I’m rearranging the unwieldy
individual notebooks into unwieldy group notebooks. This means that
only I have to figure out where to find the music, and nobody has to
figure out how to balance the large notebooks on their music stands.
This will mean that it’s practical to finalize the Dowland Book 3
typesetting. I’m also noticing a lot of good music in the notebooks
that we haven’t done for a while, so we might dig out some old
favorites.
The next meeting of the Cantabile Renaissance Band is tomorrow,
August 9, at 7:45 at my place.
The next Dowland is an Epithalamion, invoking Hymen and Black Night
and the turtles. It’s a bit like the last one, with an extended solo
(for alto this time) with only lute accompaniment, so I will attempt
to transcribe the lute part again. The chorus is 5 parts, but pretty
homophonic, so it shouldn’t be hard.
I’ve fixed the error in the cantus part from last week, so we might do
that one again, too.
I may or may not get to the next dance set. I also have an
Elizabethan waste of youth song from a lilypond-using friend that
looks like it would be fun to try.
Otherwise, requests are welcome.
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