Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissance?

Subject: Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissance?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 12:38 PM

I'm planning to spend some time next in my elementary (US) music classroom teaching songs and recorder tunes and dances from the Renaissance.
Do any of you good folks know of a resource for singing games (along the lines of play-party games) that go back that far?

Only one I can think of is Nuts in May, which we play to death in, you guessed it... May...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissance?
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 12:49 PM

http://waks.ne.mediaone.net//game-hist/

http://www.honors.indiana.edu/~atrium/script/articles.html

Subject: RE: Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissance?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 06:06 PM

There are two books which are indispensible:

Iona and Peter Opie, 1985, "The Singing Game," Oxford University Press.

Gomme, Alice B., 1984, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Thames and Hutton.

The former, in particular, discusses European and other antecedents and earlier forms.

Peace, your links don't work for me.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissa
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 06:38 AM

Thanks- I'll see if the local libraries have these books.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Kids singing games from the Renaissance?
From: IanC
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 08:47 AM

Try Barley Break ... see This Thread.

:-)