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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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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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Two dances and a ballad melody:

Christmas Cheer - from The Dancing Master, Henry Playford, 1703

Chestnut - from The English Dancing Master, John Playford, 1651

Comfort and Joy - named after the chorus of the ballad 'On Christmas Day', first printed c1700/1, and better known to us now as the carol 'God rest you merry gentlemen'.

Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Christopher Goodwin: renaissance guitar
Alison Kinder: recorder
Tamsin Lewis: violin

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



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Sweet was the song the Virgin sung: an early 17th Century Christmas carol, From John Attey's First booke of ayres, 1622.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: tenor
Tamsin Lewis: alto
Peter Willcock: bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfynhAvLuk&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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