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  1. Today's video was one of the last things that we did before lockdown in March 2020... It was filmed in the Great Watching Chamber at Hampton Court Palace, while preparing a section on Elizabethan music for Historic Royal Palace's Futurelearn course on Tudor entertainment.

    Augustine Bassano: Pavan
    From Egerton MS 3665

    Robin Jeffrey: lute
    Tamsin Lewis: renaissance violin

    youtube.com/watch?v=R0rC0gVr2i

    #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #histodon #histodons #tudor #tudors #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury #hamptoncourt #hamptoncourtpalace #futurelearn #elizabethan #violin #lute #violinist #lutenist #tapestry #elizabethan
    @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons @histodon

  2. Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
    A good example of Tudor propaganda.

    A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
    and
    The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
    From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620

    Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
    Richard de Winter: #baritone
    Robin Jeffrey: #lute
    Alison KInder: bass #viol

    youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-

    #earlymusic #earlymodern #richardiii #bosworth #histodon #histodons #tudor #tudors #warsoftheroses #otd #onthisdayinhistory #henryvii @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons @histodon
    #ballads #balladmiscellany #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #history

  3. Divisions (variations) on the popular Tudor song 'the leaves be green.

    The leaves be green
    The nuts be brown
    They hang so high
    They cannot come down

    Arranged from John Johnson's duet for 2 lutes in Jane Pickering's Lute Book (c1616)

    Eleanor Cramer: soprano
    Christopher Goodwin: lute
    Alison Kinder: tenor viol
    Tamsin Lewis: bass viol

    youtube.com/watch?v=bFAWCseNH-

    #earlymusic
    #earlymusicensemble
    #song
    #soprano
    #LUTe
    #lutenist
    #viol
    #tudor
    #tudors
    #earlymodern
    #folksong
    #histodon
    #histodons
    @histodons
    @histodon
    @earlymusic
    @earlymodern

  4. #Lenten Stuff - a #16thCentury #ballad by William Elderton.
    From MS Ashmole 48.

    A good description of #Lent in Tudor England, with complaints (among other things) about an excess of #fish, #leeks and #nettles. It also mentions the traditional figure of #JackaLent, a stuffed effigy, usually made of straw, which was dragged through the streets during Lent, and burned on #PalmSunday.

    Richard de Winter: #baritone
    Catherine Groom: #harp
    Robin Jeffrey: #lute
    Alison Kinder: bass #viol
    Tamsin Lewis: #renaissance #violin

    youtube.com/watch?v=qVg76YRtis

    #earlymusic #earlymodern #histodon #histodons #historyoffood #historicalfood #song #ballad #folklore #calendarcustoms #historical #renaissance #tudor #tudors @histodons @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodon @folklore

  5. 6 January is the feast of the #Epiphany, so here is Vidimus Stellam, an early #17thCentury #motet for the day by William #Byrd, from #Gradualia, 1607.

    Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
    Christopher Goodwin: #lute
    Alison Kinder: bass #viol
    Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

    Vidimus stellam in Orientem, et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.
    We have seen a star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.

    Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Adoration of the Magi, c1481 (Uffizi Galleries)

    youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4

    #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernmusic #recusant #williambyrd #williambyrd400 #byrd400 #violadagamba #consortmusic #consortsong #consortofviols #epiphany #threekings #threekingsday #3kings #3kingsday #Tudor #tudors #tudormusic #motet #jacobean #jacobeanmusic #sacredmusic #sheetmusic #elizabethan #elizabethanmusic #seventeenthcentury #17thCenturymusic #chiaroscuro #musicprinting
    #histodon @histodon @histodons #histodons @earlymusic #otd #OnThisDay

  6. A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned princesse Queene Elizabeth.

    To the tune of the Ladies fall

    From A crowne garland of goulden roses, Richard Johnson, 1612

    A #ballad about #ElizabethI who became queen #onthisday in 1558.

    #otd #tudor #tudors #historyballads #tudorhistory #elizabethan #earlymodern #earlymusic #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #histodons

  7. Based on some good advice to newcomers, here are a few of my interests:
    #Plantagenets
    #WarsOfTheRoses
    #ScottishHistory
    #Stuarts and ok, chuck in the #Tudors as well
    #FamilyTrees
    #artwiculate
    I’m going to try and avoid politics, because this seems a nice place and I can get very angry,and sad, about the state we are in. Here I’m planning to (try) to be civilised!