Wayte's Gigs: The Revel at Known World A&S

May 17 AS XXXII/ AD 1997

(At Some Point Really Soon Now, as chief instigator of this thing, I fully intend to actually do a write-up explaning just what it was and how to do it. It was sufficiently daunting to do, that I keep putting off documenting it.... -- T.)

The Revel was, um, this multi-art performance/party for Countess Mara's birthday. Thirty-three performances/participatory art things in 2 1/2 hours. Just shy of half of the things were dancing "for all who will", for which the Waytes played or the Quire sung.

Performing: (As best I recall!) Gwellian, Allyson, Godith, Aurylia, Tibicen, Gwendolyn, Alienor, Gabrielle, Isolde?, John d'C, Harald, Yocef?, Federach? (help me out, people!)

Playlist:

• Belle qui -- Waytes and Quire pavanned in with hosts and guests of honor of the party, the singers bearing candles. That's right -- we played and danced at the same time. Wheee! Magic trick: put instrumentalists zig-zag through column, so always both behind and beside a dancer/singer. Then dissolved into vocal galliard (Ce Mois de May).
• Lauro/Falla con misuras (Spagna) -- just alto and tenor recorders.
• Jenny Pluck Pears
• Petit Vriens -- standard arrangement, 'nino and soprano, w/ drones and percussion.
• Geloxia -- for dance performance
• Heart's Ease -- Gwendolyn singing the middle verse over Godith's bass recorder solo.
• Guest loud band, Woodland Waytes, did a suite of bransles
• Danse du Cleve -- Aurylia and Tibicen solo
• Parson's Farewell -- Tibicen started, all joined in
• Canarie/Carmen's Whistle
• Quire sang Oh Lusty May as galliard.
• Semi-spontaneous cantiga (no, don't remember which one) was slammed together w/ Yeliz on doumbek and Tibicen on tamborine for Angelina's mid-east dance performance.
• Lionel did jongling. I suppose it belongs in this report.
• Lorayne Alman -- w/ Isolde and Tibicen soloing on the second verse, w/ top and bottom-on-alto lines.
• Horse's Bransle
• Madam Sosilia's Alman
• Rufty Tufty
• Amoroso -- for dance performance
• Pease Bransle -- started w/o announcement, and dance built itself.
• Gathering Peascods

Last modified -- minor reformatting -- by Eowyn, 7 October, AS XXXXIIII (2009 C.E.).