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With Gold Embroidered Gorgeously
Early modern dress in music, words and song
A new programme created in association with the Greensleeves Project.
Our programme examines 16th and 17th Century fashions
and attitudes to clothing. Describing wooing and wedding
clothes and lovers’ gifts; fine fabrics, embroideries, accessories;
court and country fashions; merchants, moralising rants,
foreign styles and fairy clothing, through a selection of ballads,
lutesongs, partsongs, rounds, consort music, dance melodies,
and readings.
Includes music by Attey, Campion, Corkine, Gamble, Jenkins and Morley.
Developed in association with the Greensleeves Project,
with the support of The Society of Antiquaries of London and the
Continuo Foundation
