Additions

None of these are really new, but they seem to have fallen through the cracks and never gotten up on the site. They’re up because of doing the Tables of Contents for the “Drinking Songs”:http://www.laymusic.org/drinking.html, and Dowland “Book I”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-I.html and “Book II”:http://www.laymusic.org/dowland-II.html, and the upcoming Book III.

From Drinking Songs:

* He that will an alehouse keep
* Five Reasons
* To Anacreon in Heaven
* To Portsmouth

From Dowland Book I:

* Can she excuse my wrongs
* Come heavy sleepe the image of true death;

From Dowland Book II:

* XV. White as Lillies was hir face,
* XVI. Wofull hart with griefe oppressed,
* XVIII. Faction that ever dwells
* XIX. Shall I sue
* XXII. Humor say what mak’st thou heere

From Dowland Book III:

* Say love if ever thou didst find,
* Flow not so fast ye fountains,
* Love Stood Amazed
* Lend your ears to my sorrow
* By a fountain where I lay
* O what hath overwrought
* Farewell, unkind, farewell
* Weep you no more sad fountains
* Fie on this faining
* I must complain
* Come when I call,

Report on the January 30 meeting

We played:
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Dowland group:
** ??M. Giles Hobies Galliard??
** ??M. Nicholas Gryffiths his Galliard??
* Swans:
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno??
* Rounds:
** ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??
** ??Sumer (winter) is icumen in??

Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.

Note that this means that you need to decide by the end of February whether you’re performing or not. Remember that when we turn into a performing group, we stop being a drop in group. This means that we treat rehearsal time as a precious resource, and in consideration for both the audience and the other group members we arrive on time, have our own copies of the music which we keep in good order, and segregate the social and the musical parts of the evening more rigorously.

Tables of contents are up

I promised when I put the ??Drinking Songs?? and Dowland’s ??Book I?? on the laymusic lulu.com store that I would make it easy to download the contents individually, for people who really didn’t want to pay even a nominal (roughly $2) download fee.

I now have tables of contents for both books:

Unfortunately, some of the drinking songs are source only. Let me know if this is a problem for you.

Report on the January 23 meeting

We played:

* Durante, ??Danza, danza fanciulla gentile??
* Marcello, ??Sonata III??
* Telemann, ??Sonata in C major??
* Mundey, ??My prime of youth??
* Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* ??He that will an alehouse keep??

Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.

Report on the January 16 meeting

We played:

* Campian ??When Laura smiles??
* Mozart ??Andante?? arranged by David Goldstein
* ??Ami souffrez que je vous aime??, Composer unknown, mid-sixteenth century
* Rameau, ??Avec du vin endormons nous??
* Swan group:
** Gibbons, ??The Silver Swan??
** Arcadelt, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
** Vecchi, ??Il Bianco e dolce Cigno??
* Stafford, ??Slaves are they that heap up Mountains??

h3. Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at my place through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the Play the Recorder Day event or the Walk for Hunger.

Report on the January 9 meeting

We played:

* Marcello, Sonata III
* Morley:
** Good Morrow, Fair Ladies of the May
** Deep Lamenting
* Dowland:
** Flow my tears
** Lachrimae Antiquae
** Lachrimae Coactae
** O sweet Wood
** Fine Knacks for Ladies
* Rounds:
** Slaves are they that heap up Mountains
** He that drinks is immortal

h3. Schedule

We will be having our regular drop-in meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45 at “my place”:http://www.laymusic.org/directions.html through the month of February. For March and April, we will probably be restricting attendance to people who want to perform with us at either the “Play the Recorder Day event”:http://www.bostonrecordersociety.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=451 or the “Walk for Hunger”:http://www.projectbread.org/site/PageServer?pagename=walk_main.

By the end of February, we should have a reasonably good idea what the programs for those events will be, so let me know if there’s something you especially want to play. Also, you will need to decide by then whether you’re playing either or both events, so that we can decide on a program.

Report on the January 2 meeting

Happy New Year.

We played:

  • Marcello, Sonata III
  • Duet Hope brought
  • Pyggot, Quid Petis, O Fili
  • Holborne group:
    • Galliard: As it fell on a holie Eve
    • Galliard: Hermoza
    • Muy linda
    • [Pavan:] Last will and testament
  • Dowland group:
    • Lachrimae Antiquae
    • Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
    • Lachrimae Gementes
    • Lachrimae Tristes
  • Rounds:
    • Cider Round
    • Let us drink and be Merry

Schedule

I don’t know of any reason to change our regular schedule of
dropin meetings every Tuesday starting at 7:45 PM at my place. At the
end of February or the beginning of March, we will stop being a
dropin group and instead welcome only people who are playing the Play
the Recorder Month event or the Walk
for Hunger.

Other Events

The next Boston
Recorder Society Concert Series event is this Sunday. Steve
Tapper will play his own arrangements, assisted by John Tyson and
Shelley Otis. I have an extra ticket, if anyone’s interested.

The Viola da Gamba Society of New England January 20 workshop details are here.