Claire | May 19, 2016

Renaissance music expert and musician Jane Moulder has done this wonderful video in which she discusses two pieces of music from Anne Boleyn’s lifetime and then performs them with her group, PIVA. Head on over to www.madeglobal.com/3251/jane-moulder-great-concert-recorders/ to enter the giveaway for a CD of Heigh Ho Holiday by PIVA, which is a wonderful collection […]

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Tags: Renaissance music, Tudor music

Claire | November 16, 2011

Thank you so much to Anne Boleyn Files visitor Teri for bringing my attention to a beautiful piece of 16th century music entitled “My Lady Carey’s Dompe”. I’ve been humming it since I listened to it! Teri told me that it was dated to around 1525 but that its composer was unknown, so I did […]

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Tags: Hugh Aston, Lady Carey, Lady Carey's Dompe, Mary Boleyn, Tudor music

Claire | June 1, 2009

Legend has it that Henry VIII wrote the famous Tudor ballad, “Greensleeves”, for Anne Boleyn but it actually did not appear until after Henry VIII’s reign and is based on an Italian style which did not reach England until the reign of Elizabeth I. However, it is a beautiful Tudor song and could be said […]

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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Greensleeves, Henry VIII, Tudor music, Tudor songs