EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY OF VICTORIA

 

EMSV PLAYERS’ / SINGERS’ MEETING

Sunday 9/8/2026 – 2:30pm – EMSV Players’ meeting

Non-members welcome. Email emsvofvic.gmail.com for venue address.

Please park on the lawn at the top of the driveway, by the stone wall, and enter from the veranda.

Leave the driveway for people with mobility issues. Do not park under the large tree as it drops

limbs.

All WELCOME - singers / instrumentalists can participate in the group playing, but instruments

must be of authentic style for the period. The pitch for the afternoon for general playing will be

A440 (modern). All vocal parts will be doubled by an instrument.

MUSIC TO BE PLAYED/SUNG.

General playing/singing - music will be supplied in a variety of clefs. The music is for voices and

instruments, and all vocal lines are doubled by at least one instrument so you can sing beside 'your'

instrument. There will usually be many players/singers per part.

Works to be workshopped will include:

Tallis Salvator Mundi a5

Praetorius Magnificat Super Chorale a8

Lasso Heroum Soboles a6

Morley Fire, Fire a5

Morley Out of the Deep a5

Morales Dite Mi O Si a4

Monteverde O Jesu Mea a5

Marenzio Domine ne in Furore a7

If you want a sneak preview of the music to be played most of it is on the web site Choral public

domain (CPDL). All pieces have a rehearsal keyboard part available. If there is more than 1

keyboard player, take it in turns to play. Any queries ring or text Jim Bland 0407 780 143 or email

emsvofvic@gmail.com .

"Quiet" instruments (viols, flutes, low recorders etc) may stay for playing in the evening at A415.

Upper intermediate or advanced members only.

Enquiries Lyn Hawkins 0407 765 220, or email emsvofvic@gmail.com