It’s December already, and that means Tudor Advent fun begins!
Enjoy a new historical treat every day until Christmas Eve on The Anne Boleyn Files (or on YouTube!).
Start the countdown here:
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/2025-anne-boleyn-files-advent-calendar/

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"A Tudor Christmas"
[1. Pastime with good company Henry VIII (1491-1547)
2. Coventry carol 16th century
Soloists: Tom King, Brian Chapman, William Gaunt
3. Rorate coeli William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Soloists: Nicholas Haigh, John Cotton, Adrian Lowe
4. Consort Henry VIII
5. Christe Jesu, pastor bone John Taverner (c.1490-1545)
6. Consort Henry VIII
7. This is the record of John Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Soloist: Tom King
8. Ave Maria Robert Parsons (c.1530-1570)
9. Remember O thou man Thomas Ravenscroft (c.1590-c.1633)
Soloists: Nicolas Haigh, Alexander Thompson, William Gaunt
10. Consort Henry VIII
11. While shepherds watched Christopher Tye (c.1505-1573)
12. From virgin’s womb William Byrd
Soloists: John Cotton
13. Consort Henry VIII
14. Laudate nomen Christopher Tye
15. O nata lux Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
16. Magnificat from 1st Service John Sheppard (c.1520-c.1560)
17. Sweet was the song 16th century
Soloist: Alexander Thompson
18. Quid petis, o fili Richard Pygott (c.1485-1552)
Soloists: John Cotton, Tim Dallosso, Tom King, Brian Chapman,
Gabriel Vick, William Gaunt, Timothy Whiteley, Angus Wilson
19. Consort Henry VIII
20. Hosanna to the Son of David Thomas Weelkes (1575-1623)]
Choir of Christ Church, Oxford/Stephen Darlington
(The Gift of Music 2004)
https://songwhip.com/stephen-darlington/a-tudor-christmas

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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

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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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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

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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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Now that it's #December, I can start posting #carols 🙂

Remember O thou man, an anonymous carol from Thomas #Ravenscroft's Melismata, 1611.
Earlier versions of this song can be found in a number of #Scottish sources, including John Wedderburn's Compendious book of godlie psalmes and spirituall sangis, 1578.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: alto
Jack Merivale: bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4W8rZ80zk&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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This Christmas, see the Tower of London transformed like never before with magical festive displays across the famous fortress. See the 12 Days of Christmas come to life in unique Tower of London style.

Event organiser is
Historic Royal Palaces.

https://bit.ly/3rnB9sV

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