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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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