I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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.
William Lawes: What should my mistress do with hair.
A 17th Century setting of James Shirley's poem 'One that loved none but deformed Women', which may have been sung in his 1636 play, The Duke's Mistress.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Emily Atkinson: soprano
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Richard Mackenzie: lute
Images:
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Quentin Matsys - A Grotesque old woman, 1513
[The image is too early for the song, but matches the sentiments expressed]
"Campus stellae"
Composer: Anonymous
[1 Novus Annus Dies Magnus
2 Ad Superni Regis Decus
3 Dies Ista Celebris
4 Congaudeant Catholici
5 Alleluia - Gratulemur Et Letemur
6 Dies Ista Gaudium
7 Res Est Admirabilis
8 Plebs Domini
9 Gregis Pastor
10 Uterus Hodie Virginis Floruit
11 Mira Dies Oritur
12 Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
13 Lilium Floruit
14 Quam Dilecta Tabernacula
15 Rex Immense
16 Clemens Servulorum Gemitus Tuorum
17 Flore Vernans Gratie
18 Judicii Signum]
Discantus/Brigitte Lesne
(Opus Production 1994) https://songwhip.com/anonymous/campus-stellae
"Jistebnický Kancionál – Sound of the Bohemian Pre-Reformation"
[Composer: Anonymous:
Cantio: Věřmež V Boha Jednoho
Cantio: Kristovoť Jest Ustavenie
Lamentacio: Aleph. Poslúchajte Slova Smutná
Responsorium: Zatmilo Se Jest
Cantio: Radujme Se Všickni Nynie
Tropus: Hospodine, Pro Tvé Svaté Vzkřiešenie
Offertorium: Brány Nebeské Otevřel Hospodin
Cantio: Vstalť Jest Kristus Z Mrtvých
Sequence: Všemohúcí Král Mocí
Cantio: Patřmež K Bohu Tak Múdrému
Introitus: Nakrmil Jest Je Z Tučnosti
Alleluia: Tělo Mé Pravý Jest Pokrm
Prosa: Abychme hodně pamatovali
Prosa: Kněžie Obět Boží. Tropus Budiž Pozdraveno, Tělo Kristovo
Offertorium: Kněžie Obět Boží. Tropus Budiž Pozdraveno, Tělo Kristovo
Communio: Kolikrát Kolivěk
Cantio: Padnúc Na Svá Kolena
Introitus: Daj Pokoj, Hospodine
Cantio: Chvalmež Boha Vždy Dobrého
Tropus: Děkujeme Hospodinu
Cantio: Buoh Všemohúcí
Cantio: Jezu Kriste, Štědrý Kněže]
Some #earlymodern remedies.
A set of #songs and #choruses from the Masque of #Mountebanks, where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...
This #Jacobean#masque was performed twice in London in 1618. First at #GraysInn, and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.
"Das Gänsebuch (The Geese Book): German Medieval Chant"
[1 Kaspar Othmayr, Lucas Osiander: Bicinium And Chorale
2 Anon.: Mass For Ascension
3 Hans Kotter: Fantasia In C
4 Anon.: Mass For The Holy Lance And The Nails
5 Conrad Brumann: Carmen In G
6 Anon.: Mass For Saint Deocarus
7 Ludwig Senfl: Ewiger Gott
8 Anon.: Mass For Saint Sebaldus
9 Heinrich Isaac: Ricercare In D Minor
10 Anon.: Mass For Saint Monica
11 Conrad Paumann: Kyrie Angelicum
12 Anon.: Mass For Saint Martha
13 Arnolt Schlick: Maria Zart, Von Edler Art
14 Anon.: Mass For Saint Lawrence
15 Heinrich Finck: Ich Wird Erlost
16 Bells Of The Church Of St Lorenz]
Schola Hungarica/László Gobszay and Janka Szendrei
Matthias Ank (organ)
(Naxos 2005) https://songwhip.com/schola-hungarica/gansebuch-das-the-geese-book-german-medieval-chant
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
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
Christmas Cheer - from The Dancing Master, Henry Playford, 1703
Chestnut - from The English Dancing Master, John Playford, 1651
Comfort and Joy - named after the chorus of the ballad 'On Christmas Day', first printed c1700/1, and better known to us now as the carol 'God rest you merry gentlemen'.