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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We're playing and singing tonight on 'A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley'. 9pm on BBC4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cfd5

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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

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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