Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 05:40 PM

Simpson's The British Broadside Ballad and its Music has Last Christmas 'Twas My Chance ("Pepys' copy c1620").

There is also a Nowel's [sic] Galiard in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Stower
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 05:08 PM

Thanks, Ann and Mo.

I had never heard of 'In the Fields in Frost and Snow', so big thanks. It turns out to have been in PEDM editions of 1710, 1714, 1718, 1728. Mo, if you could give the highlights about it from the EFDSS Journal or the issue number I'd be most grateful.

Ann, I already play Chestnut (or Dove's Figary) on 4 course renaissance guitar and John Dowland's Mistress Winter's Jump on lute, but for some reason hadn't thought of them for the show - so thank you! And Cast a Bell - why didn't I think of that? Wonderful!

Any more excellent suggestions?

Big smiles.

Stower

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Ann N
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 03:50 PM

... would John Dowland's Mistress Winter's Jump be of use ? :)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Ann N
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 03:18 PM

2 more ...   'Chestnut' (Dove's Figary) and 'Cast a Bell', both could slip in with Christmas friendly titles and were in the 1651 edition of Playford :)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Mo the caller
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 02:42 PM

Is 'In the fields of Frost and snow' Playford? It has words, like an early Old Macdonald. There was an article in the EFDSS Journal recently.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Ann N
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 02:34 PM

There's always Gaudete :) it's pre 1700, very suitable for Christmas and I'm sure you'll already know the tune

For anyone who hasn't heard the song before youtube version of Gaudete   :D

Subject: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
From: Stower
Date: 30 Sep 11 - 02:05 PM

Tunes, please.

My early music duo, The Night Watch, is planning a winter / Christmas show featuring mediaeval, renaissance and early baroque songs and tunes on the theme of winter and Christmas, with a latest date cut-off point of about 1700.

We have plenty of songs but could do with a few more tunes for the show. We are looking specifically for tunes that mention frost, winter, Christmas, etc. I have trawled Playford's Dancing Master and found only Drive The Cold Winter Away (which we'll sing the song of, as it was a 17th century broadside). So we'd be most grateful for any tunes with wintery names, as long they are before around 1700.   

The web page for one of the shows is here