We played:
The drop in sessions will continue to meet regularly for the
forseeable future. The meetings are on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place.
If you’re free on Sunday, May 4 (or if you’re walking the Walk for
Hunger), you might want to stop by and listen to us play. We’ll
be on Greenough Boulevard at the Cambridge-Watertown line. It’s
on the banks of the Charles River, and across from the Cambridge
Cemetary.
Dropin meetings resume on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:45 PM at my place.
Sunday, May 4, at 3 PM, Judith Conrad, fortepiano, and Mike
Shand, baroque flute, will be playing a concert at the
Loring-Greenough House. Tea will be served following the
concert.
The last meeting of the year for the Boston Recorder Society
will be on Sunday, May 18 at 7 PM at Painters’ Hall, 20 Colgate
Rd., Roslindale. If you’ve thought about joining the BRS, this
would be a good meeting to go to, as all the classes play for each
other, and you get a chance to see what people actually do at the
meetings that break up into small groups.
We played:
Tuesdays in April are rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger. If you’re not performing with us, please come to the next dropin meetings in May. Also consider coming by the Walk for Hunger performance any time between 10:AM and 3 PM on Sunday, May 4, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River at the Cambridge/Watertown line.
We played:
Remember that next week, March 25, is the last dropin meeting before we switch to having rehearsals for the Walk for Hunger program which are limited to the performers. The meeting will start at 7:45 and be at my place.
As you may have noticed, all the music on this site is released under the Gnu Public License. This means you are free to use it any way you like, and modify it for your own purposes, with a few not very onerous conditions.
I do this because I don’t expect everybody to want to use it exactly the way I do. Specifically, I often find dead-tree printed music is in the wrong key or has the wrong clefs, or too many bar lines or something that makes it harder for me or the people I play with. And then I wish I had a copy in lilypond or ABC or even MIDI so that I could just change it. So when I publish my transcriptions, I put up not only the PDF file my group plays from, but the ABC and/or lilypond source and the MIDI output.
I got an email last week from Christoph Dalitz, who said:
I am pleased to let you know that some of your music editions
published under the GPL have found an unexpected use in a
use in a research study on automatic staff line removal
(a preprocessing step in OMR). The study has meanwhile
been finished and that the results have just been published
in IEEE TPAMI:C. Dalitz, M. Droettboom, B. Czerwinski, I. Fujinaga:
A Comparative Study of Staff Removal Algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 753-766, May 2008
You can read the study here
So when you wonder what use free information is, think of the future generation of automated music scanners which will be better because of the people who put free music up on the web. As well as of the people who can play my music in the clef and key they want it in.
We played:
We’ll be having regular dropin meetings for the rest of March, that is, March 18 and 25. These will be at my place and start at 7:45 PM.
For the month of April, meetings will be restricted to people performing at the Walk for Hunger.
We played:
We will be continuing our regular dropin meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 PM at my place through the month of March. In April, all meetings will be restricted to the people who are playing the Walk for Hunger on May 4.
Note that because Easter is early this year, it will happen before we get really started on the Walk for Hunger music. So if there’s Easter music people really love and would like to do with this group, bring it, or let me know and I can try to dig it out of somewhere. I’ll be getting out the Billings Easter Anthem.
Come come, let’s begin by Thomas Weelkes, was one of the first pieces I transcribed for this website. I’ve now updated it to a modern version of lilypond, and put up a version a fourth down. There are also some note fixes.
There’s an important note fix to Fortuna desperata.
And there’s not so much a note fix as a reformating to remove unnecessary clef changes in the version of Gabrielli’s Canzon II a 6 which is transposed down a fourth.
We played:
Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4).
We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.
We played:
Remember that I’d like a list of people who want to play the Walk for Hunger by next week’s meeting (March 4). So far, I have one “yes”, one “probably”, and one “maybe the first set”. I’m fine with a trio, but a duo would be pretty hard work, so I’d want to start twisting ringers’ arms.
We will continue to have dropin meetings at my place on Tuesdays starting at 7:45 PM for the next few weeks. Depending on what we end up doing for the Walk for Hunger, we will switch over to real rehearsals sometime towards the end of March or the beginning of April.
The Walk for Hunger is always the first Sunday in May, this year May 4. We are usually scheduled for the slot from 10 AM to 3 PM. We work up a one hour set, and find another group with a one hour set, and we alternate with them. For the first hour, people who want to play solos and duets are welcome to play informally.
LayMusic.org 