Thoughts from the Trenches, Private Studio Teaching Starting this Week on Double Bass Blog…after A RECITAL

Before I get started on the blog entries for this week (regarding private studio teaching), I wanted to make sure I invited anyone in the Chicago area who is interested to my upcoming recital:

Dr. Phillip W. Serna – The Seventeenth-Century Lyra-Viol, a Recital

Phillip W. Serna, Tenor & Bass Viol
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church
701 South Eola Road, Aurora, IL 60504
Sunday, August 19, 2007 7:30PM
Pre-Concert Lecture/ Discussion at 7:00PM
No offering or admission

This program will feature British music for unaccompanied lyra-viol (or viol/ viola da gamba played lyra-way) that spans Elizabethan/ Shakespearean England through the revolution, Commonwealth, and to the restoration of the monarchy mid-century. The program will contain many challenging works as well as settings of popular songs & ballads of the era.

Program

Lyra-Viol Compositions and Popular Ballad-Tunes Performed on Bass Viol

From the Published Collection: The First Part of Ayres,
Also known as The Musicall Humours (1605)

Captaine Tobias Hume (1569 – 1645)

Love’s Farewell, No.47
Captaine Hume’s Pavan, No.46
Now I Come, No.28
My Hope is Decayed, No.7
The Earl of Pembroke His Galliard, No.2
The Spirit of Gambo, No.4

From the Cambridge University Manuscript Dd.5.20, fol.19
Published in Musica Britannica, Volume IX, No.109, 1955

Anonymous

Walsingham

Lyra-Viol Arrangements of Popular Tunes Performed on Tenor Viol

From the Published Collection: Musicks Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-Way from the 1651, 1652, 1669 and 1682 Editions

John Playford (1623 – 1686)

Vive Lay Roy, No. 40, Playford 1661
Could Man His Wish Obtain, No. 88, Playford 1682
Blew Cap, No. 9, Playford 1652
Parthenia, No. 7, Playford 1669
Glory of the West, No. 19, Playford 1651
Franklin, No. 23, Playford 1669 & Focky Went to the Wood, No. 27, Playford 1682
Gerards Mistresse, No. 55, Playford 1652
The Merry Milk-Maid, No. 30, Playford 1669
None Shall Plunder But I, No. 21, Playford 1651
Now the Fight’s Done, No. 32, Playford 1682
Farwell Fair Armida, No. 94, Playford 1682
Amarillis, No. 69, Playford 1682

Lyra-Viol Arrangements of Popular Ballad and Dance-Tunes Performed on Bass Viol

From the Manchester Lyra-Viol Manuscript Mid-Seventeenth Century, c1660

Richard Sumarte (15?? – after 1630)

Fortune [My Foe]
Daphne
Queen Marie’s Dumpe
Monsieur’s Almain
Solus Cum Sola (After Dowland)
What if a Day
[My] Roben to the Greense-Woode Gone & Whoope Doe Me No Harme [Goode Man!]
Lachrymae (After Dowland)
The Nightingale