I seem to have a bit of an accidental Basque theme going this week – yesterday’s carol was a contemporary setting of an old text by a Basque composer, and today’s carol is a traditional Basque carol. I’ve always loved…
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Advent Calendar Day 5 – The Cherry Tree Carol (Hunt)
Maintaining this week’s theme of fruit (hey, sometimes you just have to embrace these things), here’s a carol that comes from a genre I am hereby dubbing ‘Medieval Bible Filk’, or possibly ‘Medieval Bible Fanfic’. It’s inspired by the New…
Monday Music: Flow my Tears (John Dowland)
I was up way too late last night, trying to get organised for the week ahead, and failing. It is to weep. And who better to weep with than John Dowland, the author of such cheery works as ‘Weep, O…
Advent Calendar Day 7: There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
Given that I’m coming up with a post a day during Advent, I was going to put my Friday Fun on hiatus… but on reflection, that didn’t sound like much fun at all, so instead, I’m going to devote Fridays…