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  1. My Little Sweet Darling
    An anonymous Tudor lullaby (sometimes attributed to William Byrd.)
    The song is found in multiple sources, and may originally have been sung in “A tragedy called Oedipus,” an Elizabethan translation of a Latin play by Seneca.

    Sam Brown: lute
    Eleanor Cramer: soprano

    youtube.com/watch?v=UW8pcxXAtq

    #lullaby #lutesong #lute #historicalmusic #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernmusic @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodon @histodons #histodon #histodons #16thCentury #tudor #tudors #renaissance #renaissancemusic

  2. Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

    From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

    youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
    #nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

  3. Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

    From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

    youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
    #nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

  4. Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

    From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

    youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
    #nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

  5. Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

    From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

    youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
    #nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

  6. Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

    From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

    youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
    #nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

  7. In Tudor and Stuart times, gifts were given at New Year rather than at Christmas.
    Here is a musical New Year's Gift. It's an anonymous 17th Century dance of that name from Thomas Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of Heroes, 1619.
    From BL Add. 10444
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: violin

    youtube.com/watch?v=rpY3yW1X4e

    #earlymusic @earlymusic
    #earlymodern @earlymodern
    #histodon
    #histodons @histodons @histodon
    #happynewyear #history #12daysofchristmas #newyearsgift #violin #violinist #historicalmusic #historicaldance #mas #17thCentury #tudor #tudors #stuart #stuartera

  8. Some 17th Century music for Christmas Day

    Orlando Gibbons: A Song of Joy
    from George Withers' Hymnes and Carols of the Church, 1623

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Alison Kinder: bass viol
    Tamsin Lewis: alto
    Peter Willcock: bass

    youtube.com/watch?v=f8IRdnZ_oL

    #OrlandoGibbons
    #earlymusic
    #earlymusicensemble
    #christmas
    #christmasmusic
    #earlymodern
    #17thCentury
    #seventeenthcentury
    #historicalmusic
    #histodon #histodons
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