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A quiet evening, with just three of us.

Yet another good practise. Today we started to learn how to pick our notes out from one starting note, and did some exercises playing with moving up and down a scale. It was hard work, but also fun and interesting.

Four of us tonight, and another fairly intense session.

We had a few more people back again today, making a fuller group. We got through some of our favourites, did a little work on a few pieces, and tried something new.

We revised some old repertoire, then attempted Pavana Matthei.

Today we had an out-of-towner join us (although really, she's one of our own): Mistress Amalie von Brisache. A smaller group than normal singing, however, we had a fantastic afternoon.

In Attendance: Patrick (Seneschal), Nora (Reeve), Shannon (Herald), Nicola, David, Katherine (Web)


Apologies: Rob (Marshal), Wendy (Chatelaine/Quartermaster), Chantelle (A&S)


Opened: 7:43


Reports

Reeve (Nora): Quarterly report

Herald (Shannon): Nothing to report

Marshal (Rob): No report received

A somewhat quieter singing practice, with a few somewhat scratchy voices - but productive and with some nice sounds nevertheless.

The word "foin" caused some trouble in this week's Saviolo class.  Fortunately, the OED is to the rescue: "To make a thrust with a pointed weapon..."  It occurs as both transitive and intransitive verbs and also a noun.

The etymology is uncertain, but best guess is from an Old French word for three-pronged fish-spear (which I would call a "trident").

It seems that in the 17th C the word merged with "foil" (a blunted sword).

It was really good to get back to singing today, after a break of several weeks.