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This pattern, titled Tapestries of Secrecy, draws inspiration from Mary, Queen of Scots, and the hidden messages she skillfully wove into her needlework during her imprisonment. #Tudors #MaryQueenofScots #MaryStuart #16thcentury #England #Renaissance
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The Sick Tune: an anonymous #sixteenthcentury ballad melody from MS Dd.9.33

Played by Sam Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HFTLUoxl8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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A Tudor Christmas Carol
As I outrode this enderes night.
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
[The better known 'Coventry Carol', "lully lulla, thou little tiny child" comes from the same source.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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It's December, so it must be all right to start posting Christmas music...

This Enders Night
An anonymous early 16th Century lullaby carol from the court of Henry VIII.

From MS Royal Appendix 58

Emily Atkinson: soprano
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Tamsin Lewis: alto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjye1LQE4bY&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#christmas #christmasmusic #christmascarols
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Looking for some historical seasonal music to play or sing with friends?

To Shorten Winter's Sadness: English Music and Song for Christmas and Winter from the 16th & 17th Centuries

Available from Rondo Publishing
https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/to-shorten-winters-sadness/

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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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-M&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Some Summer music to match the weather.

Michael Cavendish's madrigal "Zephyrus brings the time" from 14 ayres in tabletorie to the lute, 1598

Eleanor Cramer: Soprano
Christopher Goodwin: Lute
Alison Kinder: Bass Viol
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance Violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YypW-qKngJA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Row well ye mariners.
An anonymous #dance and #ballad tune, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
From The Country Dancing Master, John #Playford, 1651.

Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Robin Jeffrey: #cittern
Alison Kinder: recorder
Lynda Sayce: #recorder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g0qFmqqIH8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Richard Allison: The Lord's Prayer

An Elizabethan setting from 'The Psalmes of Dauid in Meter', 1599, one of the #music #books brought onto the #Mayflower in 1620 by William Brewster.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #cittern
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #alto
Lynda Sayce: #lute
Peter Willcock: #bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EfzNJpdoPA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Detail from a #19thCentury #broadsideballad, The Lamentation of Mary Queen of #Scotland who was executed #onthisday at #Fotheringay in 1587.
From #Bodleian #Ballads Online: Roud Number V13754
#Tudors #Tudor #maryqueenofscots #OTD #ElizabethI #song #RoyalHistory #broadsideballads #histodon #histodons #histodon @histodons @histodon

To Shorten Winter's Sadness.
A #16thCentury English #madrigal from Thomas Weelkes' Ballets & #Madrigals, 1598.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2z4Mafl_PU&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4s&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Passamezzo's #youtubechannel is full of #earlymusic and #earlymodern #history. We try to upload new material most weeks.

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Rondo #Publishing is having a #Christmas #sale! 10% OFF until midnight, Christmas day. Use this voucher code MERRY10.

Here is a link to my books on #earlymodern #music and society: The books contain popular songs, #ballads and rounds, courtly lute songs and madrigals, theatre music, consort pieces and instrumental solos from the 16th to the early 18th Centuries.
Topics include the #seasons and festivals of the year; #historical events like #AnneBoleyn’s coronation, the #Plague and the Great Fire of #London; the Cries of London; #Weddings, and music from the #Mayflower.

https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product-category/tamsin-lewis-passamezzo-editions/

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As I out rode this enderes night.
An anonymous #16thCentury English #carol from the Pageant of the Shearmen & Tailors, one of the #Coventry Mystery Plays.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #tudor #tudormusic #tudorchristmas #tudors #christmascarol #christmascarols #sixteenthcentury #mysteryplay #christmasmusic #renaissance #renaissancemusic

Today has involved a number of music manuscripts including the exquisite Wode partbooks.
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To Shorten Winter's Sadness: Music and Song for Christmas and Winter

https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/to-shorten-winters-sadness-2

A perfect #christmaspresent for lovers of #earlymusic and #history

A selection of #earlymodern #carols, #ballads, #madrigals, #dance melodies and consort songs, and follows the religious calendar from #Advent to #Candlemas. It also describes many of the #festive #customs of the time, with #feasts and #revels through the #cold of #winter, and fairs upon the frozen river.

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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.

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