On 16 September 1620, the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth.

Some of the passengers brought books with them, and here is a ballad from one:
Barrow Faustus Dreame, or The Shepherd's Joy
Our recording of a consort song, with lyrics from Richard Johnson's Golden Garland of Princely Pleasures, 1620, one of the books thought to have been carried on the Mayflower by William Brewster.
Musical arrangement from Philip Rosseter's Lessons for Consort, 1609

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard De Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: treble viol
Lynda Sayce: tenor viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bban3mmScY8

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Today's #video is Begone, sweet night, an anonymous #Scottish #song from the early #17thCentury.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKzuv4dA7o

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Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
Peter Willcock: bass

Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86w&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Some 17th Century music for Christmas Day

Orlando Gibbons: A Song of Joy
from George Withers' Hymnes and Carols of the Church, 1623

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: alto
Peter Willcock: bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8IRdnZ_oLo&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Christmas Lamentation/Christmas is my name.
A 17thC broadside ballad, complaining about 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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A seasonal madrigal to match the Autumn weather...
Michael East: Why are our Summer sports so brittle?
From the Fourth Set of Books, 1618

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: lute
Alison Kinder: treble viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WTK61VyzfU&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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John Dowland: Sleep, wayward thoughts
from The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597.

Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1-HkJGG0Vo&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Today's video was one of the last things that we did before lockdown in March 2020... It was filmed in the Great Watching Chamber at Hampton Court Palace, while preparing a section on Elizabethan music for Historic Royal Palace's Futurelearn course on Tudor entertainment.

Augustine Bassano: Pavan
From Egerton MS 3665

Robin Jeffrey: lute
Tamsin Lewis: renaissance violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rC0gVr2ig&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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