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

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

Shrovetyde
An #anonymous #English #17thCentury #engraving from a #broadsideballad showing an #allegory of #Shrovetide.
Thomason Tracts, 1661

Shrovetide is depicted riding on an #ox and armed with a spit full of roasted meats, a #gridiron on his back, wrapped in #sausages and ready to go into battle with #Lent.

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Allen Clarke's song for the 1896 Winter Hill mass trespassers, all 10,000+ of them, which was printed on thousands of song sheets just like other popular broadside ballads. (Bolton Socialist Club sang this for the centenary. Does anyone still sing it? Is there a recording available?)

Will yo’ come o’ Sunday morning’
For a walk o’er Winter Hill?
Ten thousand went last Sunday
But there’s room for thousands still!

O the moors are rare and bonny
And the heather’s sweet and fine
And the roads across the hilltops –
Are the people’s – yours and mine!

Which was later echoed in veteran Kinder trespasser Ewan MacColl's 1932 song The Manchester Rambler, a song so iconic that it has it's own wikipedia page.

I may be a wage slave on Monday
But I am a free man on Sunday.

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A #seasonal #video:
To Drive the #Cold #Winter Away.
From Pepys Ballads, c1625

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

Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: #Renaissance #violin
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

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For anyone who feels that they've eaten too much, here is a
Carol for #ChristmasDay at Night: An anonymous 17thC #ballad carol describing many of the foods eaten at Christmas.
From New #Christmas #Carols, 1662.
In common with many #broadsideballads, this carol appear with lyrics but no music. Instead, instructions are given for the choice of melody - in this case, the popular tune, #Greensleeves.

Michael Palmer: #baritone
Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Robin Jeffrey: #cittern
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #renaissance #violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgIUBWxKcJ4&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymodern #histodons #histodon @histodons
#historicfood #historical #historicalfood #mincepie #mincepies #Christmaspie #goose #ChristmasDinner #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #Restoration #Restorationmusic #baroque

Christmas Lamentation
A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, bewailing the gap between rich and poor, and the lack of #charity at Christmas.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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