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@jdmccafferty I had never heard this song before seeing Dr Lucy Worsley's programme about Tudor Christmases, and I listen to it each year now.
It absolutely breaks me - it's as beautiful as it is utterly heartbreaking:
"Lully, Lulla, Lullay"
#MassacreOfTheInnocents
#Childermas
#LullyLullaLullay
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Today is the #4thDayofChristmas otherwise known as #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here is an #anonymous #17thCentury #ballad #carol for the day from Good and true, fresh and new #Christmas #carols, 1642.
To be sung to the tune of the Spanish Pavan
It's surprisingly cheerful...
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My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the #GawainPoet took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exchange game. But who knows [shrug emoji].
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It’s December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, or #Childermas which commemorates King Herod’s murder of children in his attempt to find the Christ child.
For scholars of the #GawainPoet this is the infamous “missing day” from the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” … Lord Bertilak feasts for three days starting at Christmas, then hunts for three days, then suddenly it’s New Year’s Day. It’s not possible that the poet, who was obsessed with numerology, lost count. So what happened? 1/2
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Today is the #4thDayofChristmas, and #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here's an #anonymous #16thCentury #song for the day.
The 'Coventry' #carol is probably the best known of #Tudor #carols, would have been sung originally by the women in The #Pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors, one of the #Coventry #MysteryPlays.Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #alto
Jack Merivale:# basshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dglylGJ6aic&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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