Report on the September 4 meeting

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.)

Report on the August 28 meeting

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.

Report on the July 24 meeting

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

Report on the July 17 meeting

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.

Additions

A new “Purcell”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#44 round, “Well rung Tom”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/417.html. A group member remembered fondly having learned it over a jigsaw from a neighbor. The version she remembered wasn’t exactly what Paul Hillier transcribed in ??The Catch Book??, so we’re singing his version.

“MIchael Cavendish”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#75 “Come Gentle Swains”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/418.html. This is from ??The Triumphs of Oriana??, a collection by a lot of good composers of music in honor of Queen Elizabeth I. We’re enjoying this one enough that we may transcribe more of them.

A whole bunch of stuff that’s in “Lachrimae”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-l.html, and hadn’t ever gotten uploaded:
* “Lachrimae Amantis”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/419.html
* “The King of Denmarks Galiard”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/420.html
* “M. Henry Noell his Galiard.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/422.html
* “M Giles Hoby his Galiard.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/423.html
* “M. Nicholas Gryffith his Galiard.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/424.html
* “M. Thomas Collier his Galiard with two trebles.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/425.html
* “M. Bucton his Galiard.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/426.html
* “M. George Whitehead his Almand.”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/427.html
* “Susanna Galliard”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/428.html

Lachrimae is published at lulu.com

You can now buy either a download or a hardcopy of the Dowland ??Lachrimae?? at “lulu.com”:http://stores.lulu.com/laymusic.

You can see the table of contents, and download the individual pieces at “dowland-l.html”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-l.html.

This essentially completes the Dowland project, with all the books available in facsimile having been transcribed and made available:

* “Book I”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html
* “Book II”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-II.html
* “Book III”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-III.html
* “Pilgrim’s Solace”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-P.html

Please let me know what you think if you’re using this work.

Report on the July 10 meeting

We played:

Schedule

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