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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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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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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Thomas #Tomkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tomkins

"Choral and Organ Works"
https://songwhip.com/thomastomkins/tomkins-choral-and-organ-works
Laurence Cummings (organ), Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly
(Naxos 1999)

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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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