"Scène du Massacre des Innocents" (1824), oil painting by Leon Cogniet

That woe is me, poor Child for Thee
& ever morn & day
For Thy parting neither say nor sing
By, by, lully, lullay

#12DaysOfChristmas #Christmastide #HolyInnocents #CoventryCarol

"... through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives & reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever & ever. Amen."

~ BCP, p 238

#SundayCollect #12DaysOfChristmas #Christmastide #HolyInnocents #Childermass #CoventryCarol

Tudor Christmas = street theatre.
Mystery plays. Loud Herods.
And the haunting Coventry Carol.
Watch the full story on YouTube.
#TudorHistory #TudorChristmas #CoventryCarol
#MedievalChristmas #HiddenHistory #BritishHistory
#TheAnneBoleynFiles #ClaireRidgway

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 20
As I out rode this enderes night - a #16thCentury English #carol from the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the #Coventry #MysteryPlays.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA...

#christmascarol #earlymusic #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #coventrycarol #soprano

Do Re Mi and Ho Ho Ho More original fiction from your humble scribe “I know we’re not all here yet, but let’s start anyway,” Gladys announced. “The others will arrive soon, I hope.” Awkwardly spaced between uncomfortabl…

Of choirs and Christmas - A small town story take-note.ca/2025/12/15/d... #shortstory #choir #christmas #coventrycarol

Today's #25SongsOfChristmas video is for Coventry Carol. John Denver's Christmas album is one of my all-time favorites! #violin #violincover #christmas #christmasmusic #christmassongs #coventrycarol #johndenver

A sad one, but it wouldn't be Christmas without it #Remixmas #CoventryCarol #BritneySpears

A #Tudor song for Holy Innocents' Day from the Pageant of the Tailors and Shearmen of Coventry, c1534.
Sung by the Women of Jerusalem during Herod's massacre of the Innocents.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgly...
#earlymusic #earlylmodern #tudors #coventrycarol #mysteryplay #christmascarol

Day 21 of my #musicaladventcalendar, and today we have another of my favourite #ChristmasCarols - #CoventryCarol #ChristmasMusic #Advent #MusicForChristmas #Christmas2024

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My favorite Christmas Carol is “O Come O Come Emmanuel,” but this beautiful lament of Herod’s murderous rage seems apt this year:

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#CoventryCarol

This is my new, meditative version of the famous words of the #CoventryCarol youtu.be/ptHThU-9E88?...