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.

Sam Brown: lute
Eleanor Cramer: soprano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8pcxXAtqk&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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Some #EarlyMusic for #Thanksgiving.
They that in ships unto the sea down go - a setting of Psalm 107 from Henry Ainsworth's Book of Psalmes Englished, 1612, one of the music books carried on board the #Mayflower by Elder William Brewster.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7eyqiZkCJM&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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