Primary School Teachers! Are you looking for fun resources for teaching the Tudors? Check out this 6-week programme 'Singing the Tudors'. Lessons plans, slides, singing videos, etc. Free download: northumbriaknowledgebank.flintbox.com/technologies...
#primaryedusky #music #earlymodern #singing

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows on Saturday. Come along and help me write a 'Newcastle Late Show' catch (I can also teach you a Tudor drinking song!). Details: thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

Fun day out singing rounds and catches in the long gallery at Kiplin Hall with Michael, Liza and Eimear, and visitors. Songs included some found at the hall itself #earlymodern #musicology @britishacademy.bsky.social

In North East UK and making plans for May bank holiday weekend? Why not visit Kiplin Hall and join in with singing some fun Jacobean rounds? All age/ family friendly 15-minute drop-in workshops 11am-2pm on 3 May. All voices welcome! kiplinhall.co.uk/events/pop-u... #earlymodern #singing #history

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows in May this year. What a fab programme they've put together. If you're nearby do come and visit our stop (no. 67) on the culture crawl 'Sound Travels' for music-making, singing, craft and exciting new research: thelateshows.org.uk/2025

At #RSA2025 and looking for a fun morning session? Try our workshop on ubiquitous music-making in #earlymodern England. No musical experience necessary. Ballads, rounds, psalms, theatre songs, instrumental variations...

So here's a scored version. The 3 parts of the melody are aligned in score so the harmony can be seen. The first verse text survive in several notated copies dating back to the mid-16th C. The second and third verses occur in a single, text only source.

And finally for all the cat lovers, this is my Penny. Rescue cat, brain tumour survivor. Sassy and loveable in equal measure.
So, hello again to all my new followers! I hope this gives you a taste of what to expect from my posts.

I can also be found singing with Cappella Newcastle and ringing handbells

My current project is exploring the practice of catch-singing in the 16th/early17thC. Such a diverse project from drinking songs to psalm-singing to street cries. I'm also having a lot of fun singing these songs with singers of all ages around Newcastle : hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/singafterme/

Tudor Partbooks project (www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk) introduced me to so many wonderful music MSS. My favourites were the messy, multilayered 'Hammond partbooks' whose earliest layer I showed to be the only complete manuscript of Protestant service music from the first decades of Elizabeth's reign

My first book was on music at the court of Queen Elizabethan I, looking at how music was used as a political tool not only by the Queen herself but also by those around her (boydellandbrewer.com/978178327403...)

Upcoming NABMSA panel on Publishing in British Music Studies. 6 December 11am US Central /5pm UK. Free. Register here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/nabm...
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Sweet! Penny says hello!

The website for my @britishacademy.bsky.social
project 'Sing You Now After Me: Catch-Singing and Community in Britain c1550-1650' is live. For info about the research and resources for community/school singing, head to: hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk/singafterme/ #earlymodern #sing #musicology