This year, we will reprise our "Noontime Singing" at Lilies, every day of the war, in some corner or another of the RUSH pavilion.  Everyone is welcome to come and sing.  You don't need to read music.  You don't need to have pieces already rehearsed. You don't need a trained voice, or a trained ear, or, well, much of anything other than a love of music and a willingness to sing with others. This is just for fun: practicing pieces so that they're performable is nice, but that isn't our main goal.

The pieces we'd like to sing include:

Sumer is Icumin In, anon. 13th C.

sheet music: http://maucamedus.net/PDF/sumer.pdf

a MIDI (a little too fast): http://maucamedus.net/midi/sumer.mid

Dixit Maria (by popular demand)

sheet music: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/hassler/has-dix2.pdf

a MIDI (a litle too slow): http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sound/hassler/has-dix2.mid

MIDIs for each part can be found at http://www.gflower.org/nscmidis.htm  (look for the "Spring/Summer 2001" section)

The Peaceful Western Wind, by T. Campion  

sheet music: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/eballad2/peaceful.pdf

a MIDI (too fast): http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/peaceful.htm

Since First I Saw Your Face, by T. Ford

sheet music: http://www.chorusrehearsal.co.uk/partsongs/pdfs/ford_sincefirst.pdf

a MIDI for each part: http://www.chorusrehearsal.co.uk/partsongs/partsongs.php

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen, by H. Isaac

sheet music: http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/isaa-001.pdf

a college choir and flute ensemble performing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6XmT3w-hY0

We'll be prepared to work on any of the pieces the Known World Choir is planning to perform at Pennsic this year:

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/KWChoir/files/Pennsic%20Music%202009/

(Christian is particularly enchanted with "Thanks, Gentle Moon", and we already know a version of "Stella Splendens")

We'll also bring back the pieces we sang last year, but --and this is the important part-- we welcome *you* to bring period music *you'd* like to sing.  (We brought four or five copies last year, which proved to be barely sufficient.  Learn from our mistakes, and bring six or seven copies.)  

Sincerely,

Iia Kasha

Lord Christian