A few years back I was in a great group called Leafy Greens & Mutton, and we did mostly period music.<\/p>\n
We had a nice setlist of Yule pieces which I researched for our flyers and concert programs, and before Geocities really does go dark, I thought I’d add it here:<\/p>\n
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A Carol Bringing In the Boar\u2019s Heed<\/strong> Good King Wenceslas<\/strong> In a Manger He Is Lying<\/strong> Lo How a Rose<\/strong> The Holly & the Ivy<\/strong> In Dulci Jubilo<\/strong> There Comes a Vessel Laden<\/strong> Covertry Carol, Luly, lulay<\/strong> Tommorow Shall Be My Dancing Day<\/strong> Wassail Wassail<\/strong> Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella<\/strong> I Saw Three Ships<\/strong> Riu Riu Chiu<\/strong> The Old Year Now Away Has Fled<\/strong> Hey Ho Nobody Home<\/strong> O Come, O Come Emmanuel<\/strong> God Rest You Merry Gentlemen<\/strong> <\/p>\n A few years back I was in a great group called Leafy Greens & Mutton, and we did mostly period music. We had a nice setlist of Yule pieces which I researched for our flyers and concert programs, and before Geocities really does go dark, I thought I’d add it here: __________________________________________________________ A Carol Bringing … <\/p>\n
\nLyrics by: Wynkyn de Worde. Unfortunately, only the last page of Jan van Wynken\u2019s \u201cChristmas Carolles\u201d, printed in 1521, survives, but it includes portions of this carol, which appears in many different forms in later publications. This song is traditionally sung during the Christmas Feast at Oxford<\/p>\n
\nThis story owes its popularity to the popular melody, which is actually that of a Spring carol, \u201cTempus Adest Foridum\u201d (\u201cSpring has unwrapped her flowers\u201d). Although the lyrics were evidently written by J.M. Neale in 1853, the melody appears in the Swedish \u201cPiae Cantiones\u201d of 1582.<\/p>\n
\nPolish Carol, 16th Century<\/p>\n
\nEs Ist Ein Ros, 15th Century German carol, Translator Unknown; Arr. by Michael Praetorius, 1609<\/p>\n
\nThis popular melody and text were recorded in Mowbray\u2019s Christmas Carols in 1861, but he claimed that it appeared in \u201can old broadside, printed a century and a half since\u201d (roughly 1710). It is apparently much older even than that; the phrase \u201cthe merry organ\u201d appears in Chaucer\u2019s \u201cNonne Preestes Tale\u201d, and holly and ivy are common motifs in pagan celebrations which predate the Christian influence in Europe.<\/p>\n
\nWords: Nun singet und seid froh, attributed to Heinrich Suso (ca. 1295-1366). Folklore has it that Suso, hearing angels sing these words, joined them in a dance of worship. Translation from The Oxford Book of Carols, 1928; Music: \u201cIn Dulci Jubilo,\u201d 14th Century German melody<\/p>\n
\n1608, Andernach Gesangbuch<\/p>\n
\nOne of the most haunting of the carols written in the minor key, Coventry Carol was sung in the pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, a mystery play put on by local guilds in Coventry, in the 15th century. The most familiar text is that of Robert Croo (which we sing), written in 1534. The Coventry Plays are recorded as having been witnessed by Margaret, Queen of Henry VI, as early as 1456, by Richard III in 1484, and by Henry VII in 1492.<\/p>\n
\nThe New Oxford Book of Carols suggests that the song was originally part of a medieval Mystery Play. (It is also cited by some sources to be of the 19th century.) This carol appears in Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern by William Sandys in 1833, and in many broadsides of that period. However, most historians date the text from before the 17th century.<\/p>\n
\nGloucestershire Wassail, traditional English, but at least some verses are believed to be from the middle ages<\/p>\n
\nFrench Proven\u00e7al Carol by \u00c9mile Bl\u00e9mont; French Tune adapted by Seguin from Charpentier (late 1600s)<\/p>\n
\nThis song appears in John Forbes\u2019 Cantus, 2nd. ed, and is also known as \u201cAs I Sat On A Sunny Bank\u201d. It probably dates from the 16th century.<\/p>\n
\nText by Mateo Felcha the elder,
\nSpanish Traditional, 16th Century<\/p>\n
\nWords: English Traditional, From a Black Letter Collection, 1642, Ashmolean Library, Oxford; Tune, Tudor traditional \u201cGreensleeves\u201d<\/p>\n
\nTraditional Round, Thomas Ravenscroft, published 1609<\/p>\n
\n\u201cVeni Emmanuel,\u201d 15th Century French Plain Song melody; Some sources give a Gregorian, 8th Century origin<\/p>\n
\nThis melody appears to spring from the Cornwall countryside in England, and the lyrics appear as early as 1770 in the Roxburgh Ballads, but it is apparent from references in earlier texts that the melody (of which there are actually two, though only one is familiar in America) dates from a considerably earlier period. It is commonly considered the \u201cmost popular\u201d Christmas Carol in England.<\/p>\nInformation was gathered from a variety of sources, including:<\/em>
\n Christmas Carols Which the Tudors Would Have Sung By Wendy J. Dunn http:\/\/www.suite101.com\/article.cfm\/tudor_england\/20536\/4<\/em>
\n The Hymns and Carols and Christmas Music During The Middle Ages http:\/\/www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"