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passamezzo

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Musician, historian and mother.
Early music specialist and historical consultant for film, television, radio and theatre.
FRHistS.
Director of early music ensemble, Passamezzo.
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Greensleeves update!
We have silk satin for the "gown..of the grossie green...sleeues of Satten hanging by" described in the song.
Ninya Mikhaila will make the gown, when we've worked out what it looks like...
passamezzo.uk/greenproj.html
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I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by the Society of Antiquaries to recreate clothing described in the Tudor song, Greensleeves.
Really excited to be working on this project with a team of superb costume historians.
Among other things, there will be a video to come in the future, and a book about Greensleeves & early modern clothing in music and song, but in the meantime, here is our recording of the words and music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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More details about the Greensleeves Project here

https://passamezzo.uk/greenproj.html

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The King's Delight (for Charles II)
From the Dancing Master, John Playford, 1665

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

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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 remedies.
A set of and from the Masque of , where quack doctors vie with each other to sell cures every conceivable ailment...

This was performed twice in London in 1618. First at , and then at the Banqueting House in Whitehall for King James I.

Emily Atkinson:
Richard de Winter:
Robin Jeffrey:
Alison Kinder: bass
Tamsin Lewis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEwdS_V4s1s&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Six of the Clocke.
A description of the minutiae of daily life in early modern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks, 1626.

Image: detail from 'Death and the rich man', Monogrammist AI, 1553.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWUKhOjRG-4&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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In Tudor and Stuart times, gifts were given at New Year rather than at Christmas.
Here is a musical New Year's Gift. It's an anonymous 17th Century dance of that name from Thomas Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, or Masque of Heroes, 1619.
From BL Add. 10444
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpY3yW1X4eQ&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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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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Psalm 100 - A Song of .
From Henry Ainsworth's translation of the psalms (1612), one of the music books carried on the by Elder William Brewster in 1620.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHik7DKOw_g&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Self portrait at the spinet, c1555
(National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples)

By Sophonisba Anguissola who died in Palermo on this day in 1625

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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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Thomas Campion - Now Winter Nights Enlarge: an evocative description of Winter pastimes in England

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Christopher Goodwin: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o’erflow with wine,
Let well-turned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep’s leaden spells remove.
This time doth well dispense
With lovers’ long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well;
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXg7YtyfhjI&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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In London, 29 October (the day after the feast of Saints Simon and Jude) was the day of the Lord Mayor's Triumph.

Late as I walked through Cheapside, an early ballad from Ms Drexel 4257 describes the sights and sounds of the day.

Details include the Lord Mayor's procession through the streets of London, accompanied by civic dignitaries, liverymen, whifflers, and more; horses, wild men and noisy fireworks; and pageants with boy and girl actors.
From the Gamble Commonplace Book, Ms Drexel 4257

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHD2mfjiID0&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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One day late for International Coffee Day...
The Coffee House or Newsmongers Hall
A broadside ballad from 1672 describing events at a London coffee house.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: theorbo
Alison Kinder: bass viol, recorders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD51drQLQRQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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John Wilbye: Weep, weep mine eyes - Hero's lament for Leander

(An ornamented setting from MS Egerton 2971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwjcdYzr3Q&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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With its haunting melody, and the romantic myth that it was written by as a love song for , Greensleeves has remained popular over the centuries and today, is probably the best known of all .

However there is no proven connection to Henry VIII, and the earliest mention of the broadside ballad called was not until September 1580, (some 33 years after his death). It was an immediate hit, and a number of imitations and parodies were produced in the following months and years.

Our recording uses the text from 'A Handful of Pleasant Delights', 1584 - the earliest surviving source. There are many verses, some of which contain lovely descriptions of clothing and other aspects of

Richard de Winter: baritone
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pej-PqWDJ4U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.

A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620

Eleanor Cramer:
Richard de Winter:
Robin Jeffrey:
Alison KInder: bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-M&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Two of the Clocke.
A fascinating and detailed description of daily life in England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks, 1626.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALGlq6r4JA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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What meat eats the Spaniard?
An anonymous about eating too much fish!
From Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards night-walke.
[Attributed to] and 1602.

Emily Atkinson:
Richard de Winter:
Robin Jeffrey:
Alison Kinder: bass
Tamsin Lewis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBraD9ZlOA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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