25 March is the Feast of the Annunciation aka #LadyDay, so here's a #17thCentury #countrydance for today.
The melody first appears in Playford's #DancingMaster in 1687, with choreography being added in the 1698 edition.
#earlymusic #earlymodern #otd #onthisday #earlydance #dance #otd #onthisday

Something for #BritishPieWeek
#GreenSleeves and Pudding-Pies,
#Playford's #DancingMaster, 1686.
Pudding #pies were popular street food and they are often mentioned in #ballads and street cries.
Woodcut from a set of #CriesofLondon in the Pepys Library.
#earlymusic #earlymodern #pieweek

A rather shaky phone video as a short taster from Monday's recording session.
Divisions on Green Stockings - an anonymous #17thCentury country #dance from John #Playford's #DancingMaster, 1675.
Alison Kinder: treble #viol
Sam Brown #lute:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgRJ...
#earlymusic

Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 12
#Christmas Cheer a country #dance from #Playford 's #DancingMaster, 1703
Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: #violin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sARu...

#earlymusic #christmasmusic

#EnglishCountryDances: 17thC music
fr publications of John #Playford
#DavidDouglass
#PaulODette
#AndrewLawrenceKing
youtu.be/aflFyQOR8yI
#TheDancingMaster1651
#DancingMaster: The Compleat Dance Guide – A collection, catalogue, and index of all dances published in editions playforddances.com

Today is the 11th Day of Christmas, or #TwelfthEve, so here's a #dance from Playford's #DancingMaster, 1701.
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Peter Luke Kenny: drum
Tamsin Lewis: #violin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4m5...

#earlymusic #12daysofchristmas