Passamezzo present their new programme" Old Christmas Returned - music, words and song for Christmas". The festive programme of music, words and song, takes the audience on a journey from Advent, through the Christmas season to its traditional end at Candlemas, and tells the story of how C...

Passamezzo present their new programme" Old Christmas Returned - music, words and song for Christmas". The festive programme of music, words and song, takes the audience on a journey from Advent, through the Christmas season to its traditional end at Candlemas, and tells the story of how C...

Looking for two C18th costumes with shoes. Middle class. Need to fit one tall, slim male and one tall, slim female. Have white wigs.

Will need for one week from October 20th to the 25th. Can return after the 25th. Contact Dorothy on 07932 796094 or dottylawrence@aol.com

OED gives 1965 as the first usage of "grunge", so no - not 17thC

It was set to music by Henry Bowman.
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and by Purcell
Also, I think, as a catch


An epicure is a follower of Epicurus - someone who enjoys good food and wine

A song from Anne Boleyn's coronation will be performed on Saturday for the Lord Mayor's Show
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/article3913280.ece

A song from Anne Boleyn's coronation will be performed on Saturday for the Lord Mayor's Show
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/article3913280.ece

"Old Christmas Returned" - Christmas Music and Song from 16th and 17th Century Britain. is now available from Rondo Publishing. http://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/old-christmas-returned/ The book contains 38 pieces, some of which have not been published before: a selection of carols,...

"In Peascod Time" - 16th and 17th Century music, words and song for Summer and Harvest is now available from Rondo Publishing. http://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/in-peascod-time/ It contains 43 pieces, some of which have not been published before: a selection of songs, ballads, round...

Or if you want a combination of Arab/Andalus and early music
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Tracks this cd can be heard on the Harmonia Early Music programme "Early Music for the Holidays" http://www.prx.org/pieces/87432-early-m ... e-holidays

Passamezzo will be playing in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Boxgrove (Sussex), Aust (Gloucestershire) this December To Shorten Winter's Sadness - 16th and 17th Century Music, Words and Song for Christmas and Winter The programme consists of ballads, lutesongs, carols, consort music, madrigals ...

Posting this on behalf of Nina Sprigge (Museum of London) hoping that someone here may be able to help. Tamsin Edwardian children’s clothes needed - To borrow or rent to the Museum of London Docklands for 9 and 23 November? This is for a special one off day at the museum when 16 children will be per...

To Shorten Winter's Sadness: English Music and Song for Christmas and Winter from the 16th and 17th Centuries 41 pieces: Carols, Ballads, Madrigals, Rounds, Consort Songs and Dance Tunes. Now available here http://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/to-shorten-winters-sadness/ And there's an accompany...

Crumhorns were only really used in the 16th Century. It's also debatable whether they were used at all in England outside Court. The EMS ones are ok - not fantastic, but they work. Why not go for recorder or flute as you already play the whistle? They're played throughout the centuries, though you'd...

Rule Britannia http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnk ... tannia.pdf

Get me to the church on time is still in copyright so it's unlikely to be free anywhere legally
Ditto biggest aspidistra

Bull and Bush is out of copyright so should be around somewhere

There are various ways of tuning, but you can tune it in 5ths like a violin.

The main differences is that it's not played under the chin, strings are gut, and you don't use vibrato.

I found it very easy to go from playing Classical violin to playing rebecs/medieval and renaissance fiddles.

From Shore to Shore Words, music, song, dance and food from 17th Century England and Morocco. The programme includes devotional songs from Christianity and Islam and readings from Shakespeare and Rumi. Performed by Passamezzo and Association Mogador Chant et Musique Soufie , Essouaira. http://www.ev...

An Excellent Medley Elizabethan and Jacobean Music for the Court, the Country, the Playhouse and the streets Ballads, Lutesongs, Consort Music, Madrigals and Readings Includes music by Byrd, Dowland, Morley, Nicholson and Wilbye Saturday 18 February 2012, 7.30pm St Michael's Church, Bath Passamezzo ...

Just in time for Christmas... The new Passamezzo cd, "To shorten winter's sadness - 16th and 17th Century music for Christmas and Winter" is now on sale from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shorten-Winters-Sadness-Passamezzo/dp/B006HSJH3A... Or from the Passamezzo website http://www.livingh...

Pete the Pong wrote:Tamzin, your links here are very very useful, especially the description of Edmund Hogan's visit to Marrakech, and meeting with two englishmen resident there, and the mention of there being other traders there. Thanks!!
If this goes any further I'll pm you.

You're welcome. Happy to help if I can

Very many links Edmund Hogan, ambassador to Elizabeth I, brought a gift of a bass lute to the emperor and king Muley Abdulmeleck, More details here http://www.fullbooks.com/A-General-History-and-Collection-of-Voyagesx26037.html I'm currently involved in a project looking at the historical links betw...

In Peascod Time 16th and 17th Century music, words and song for Summer and the Harvest Ballads, Lutesongs, Consort Music, Madrigals and Readings Programme includes music by Campion, Cavendish, East, Johnson, Greene, Morley, Pilkington, Purcell and Wilbye Thursday 1 September, 7.30pm St Barnabas Chur...

I think my mother uses one of these http://www.copper-alembic.com/

From Derings "The Citty Cries" "Rats or mice, ha' ye any rats, mice, polecats or weasels, or ha' ye any old sows sick of the measles? I can kill them, and I can kill moles, and I can kill vermin that creepeth up and crepeth down, and peepeth into holes." Gibbons "Cries of Lo...

There are two versions of this. Firstly as a round (in Ravenscroft and Lant) http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/ravenscroft/modern/loath_to_depart.pdf And secondly as a melody found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Probably not by Farnaby although he wrote divisions on it. More information here http://www...

Walsh's dancing master is online here http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Coun ... r_(Various) if it is easier to work from...

Fantastic website!

My apologies, Tom - it's not in Pepys after all. Hyder Rollins has it in his "Cavalier and Puritan" ballads. Come buy a mouse-trap, or, a new way to catch an old rat: being a true relation of one Peters a Post of Rotterdam, who tempting an honest woman to lewdness, was by her and her husba...

There are at least 2 ratcatcher ballads in the Pepys Ballads. Do you have them both?