Category: Shakespeare

Greensleeves Project CD

Passamezzo have made a new disc: The Greensleeves Project – Clothing in early modern music and song.

All 18 verses of the iconic ballad of Greensleeves, with its depiction of Elizabethan fashion and material culture; three instrumental pieces named after items of clothing or fabric: Green Garters, Crimson Velvet, The Queen’s Pantoufle; a song from Shakespeare’s play, ;A Winter’s Tale’, describing fabrics and accessories found in a pedlar’s pack.

https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/the-greensleeves-project

Anon: Greensleeves

John Johnson: Green Garters

Anon: Crimson Velvet

Anon: The Queen’s Pantoufle

John Wilson: Lawn as White as Driven Snow

Sam Brown: lute

Eleanor Cramer: soprano

Richard de Winter: tenor

Robin Jeffrey: lute

Alison Kinder: bass viol, recorder

It’s really just a taster, as we hope to record over 100 clothing related pieces of music over the next couple of years

Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture

Announcing a conference on Greensleeves at the Society of Antiquaries on Friday 4 July.

This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early modern England. Speakers will be looking at the representations of clothing, fabric and food in the ballad: and will also be examining the literary, social, musical and historical context of the song.

There will also be a chance to view the reconstructed garments, and to listen to a short concert of 16th Century music related to Greensleeves.

You can attend in person or online.

Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture