Here We Come a-Wassailing: EMS 28 December

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  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132
    #1

    Here We Come a-Wassailing: EMS 28 December

    Lucie Skeaping investigates an ancient musical tradition whereby people went from door to door singing carols and were rewarded with hot mulled cider. Wassailing can be traced back possibly as far as Anglo-Saxon times and has evolved over time to become associated with Christmas. Lucie Skeaping introduces some of the music that has been associated with the wassailing tradition and her guests include the historian Joanna Crosby, from Essex Univeristy, who has a particular interest in apples.
    BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Here We Come a-Wassailing
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdgq4
    Lucie Skeaping investigates the ancient musical tradition of wassailing.


    a particular interest in apples…?
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  • Old Grumpy
    Full Member
    • Jan 2011
    • 3602
    #2
    FMS?

    Too much mulled cider, I suspect!

    OG

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26524
      #3
      Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
      FMS?

      Too much mulled cider, I suspect!

      OG
      Your wish is my chimney-borne command, OG...
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30256
        #4
        Originally posted by doversoul View Post
        a particular interest in apples…?
        And their (social) history/associations? :-)
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • greenilex
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1626
          #5
          Must remember to sing to my baby trees before the cut-off point on Twelfth Night. Neighbours notwithstanding.

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6432
            #6
            Waz Ale Me Lovers!!!!....
            bong ching

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26524
              #7
              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
              Waz Ale Me Lovers!!!!....
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920
                #8
                wassailing investigated to the core

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                • kernelbogey
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5738
                  #9
                  Originally posted by mercia View Post
                  wassailing investigated to the core
                  There was a young lady from Ryde
                  Who swallowed and apple and died:
                  The apple fermented
                  Inside the lamented,
                  Making cider inside 'er inside.

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