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Report on the August 14 meeting

We played:

Gervaise, X Bransles de Champagne
Wilbye, Draw on sweet night
Cavendish, Come, gentle swains
Isum, Celia learning upon the spinet
Purcell, He that drinks is immortal

Schedule

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

Additions, July 26, 2007

These are both actually from Diego Ortiz, El Primo
Libro, 1553. He doesn’t bother crediting Arcadelt.

Arcadelt, O
felici occhi miei
Ortiz, Ricercada
segunda sobre [O felici occhi miei], which is divisions on the
top line of the Arcadelt. I have printed the tune and the
divisions in score.

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.

HÃ©loÃ¯se 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

Addition, July 18, 2007

Another “Purcell”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/bycomposer.html#44 round: “A Rebus upon Mr. Anthony Hall, who keeps the Mermaid Tavern in Oxford, and plays his part very well on the violin”:http://www.laymusic.org/music/sp/html/pieces/429.html.

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 EspaÃ±a
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.

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:

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:
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.

Report on the July 3 meeting

We played:

Susato group:
- Rondes
- Saltarelle
- Les quatre Branles
- Fagot
Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
Dowland group:
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.

Party, July 6

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.