A #seasonal #video:
To Drive the #Cold #Winter Away.
From Pepys Ballads, c1625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnbUPnXIQSw&ab_channel=Passamezzo
Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: #Renaissance #violin
Richard Mackenzie: #lute
#earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern #violinist #violadagamba #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #woodcut #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #SeventeenthCenturySong #seventeenthcenturymusic #histodons @histodons #histodon @histodons #socialhistory #historyoffood
#seasonal #Video #cold #winter #viol #baritone #recorder #renaissance #violin #lute #earlymusic #earlymodern #violinist #violadagamba #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #woodcut #17thcentury #seventeenthcentury #SeventeenthCenturySong #seventeenthcenturymusic #histodons #histodon #socialhistory #HistoryOfFood
This verse of the #17thCentury #Ballad 'Christmas Lamentation' condemns the use of starch (yellow or otherwise) for setting #ruffs and other linens – using a foodstuff for decorating clothes has pushed up the price of corn (wheat) , causing a #costofliving crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ
#earlymodern #17thCenturyClothing #FashionHistory #HistoryofFashion #earlymusic #SeventeenthCentury #SeventeenthCenturySong
#17thcentury #ballad #ruffs #costofliving #earlymodern #17thCenturyClothing #fashionhistory #HistoryofFashion #earlymusic #seventeenthcentury #SeventeenthCenturySong