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  1. Elizabethan Dinner

    Date released
    16 Jan 1961
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    316
    NoS ID
    121006
    Story no
    3 / 3
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NoS Summary - A Elizabethan-style meal complete with serving wenches, lute music and a spit-roasted suckling pig, is served in the Elizabethan Room of The Gore Hotel, London.

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  2. Like As the Lute (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    Leszek Burzynski
    Producer
    Brian Eastman
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Based on a British Council tour of the Middle East by the lutenist Anthony Rooley and the soprano Emma Kirkby the film demonstrates the relationship between Arabic and European Renaissance music. Rooley is...

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  3. Elizabethan Lute Song, The (1975 Video)

    Other songs are ‘How can the tree’ by Vaux, ‘Blame not the lute’ by Wyatt; ‘Can she excuse my wrongs?', ‘Come again sweet love doth now invite’ and ‘Flow my tears’ by Dowland; ‘It fell on...

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  4. Our kind of town (1980)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview; Music

    Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode focuses on the history of Kentish Town, and spiritualist bookselling. Journalist, Gillian Tindall, author of The Fields Beneath, says transport was...

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  5. Introduction to John Dowland, An (1984)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £28.00

    Analyses in detail Dowland’s song ‘Can She Excuse My Wrongs’ in order to illuminate the general approach to the setting of words taken by composers of the period. There is an historical introduction to...

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  6. Orpheus Redevivus: The Songs of Thomas Campion (1976 Video)

    Producer
    Michael Bowen

    R. H. Wells sings and accompanies on lute the songs of Thomas Campion, explaining their poetry, musical style and their place in the Elizabethan England.

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  7. Africa I Remember (1995 Video)

    Director
    Paul Balmer
    Producer
    Paul Balmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £50

    Nigerian-English musician and composer Tunda Jegede spans the African and western music traditions in ‘The Cycle Recokoning’, the world’s first full-scale work for African harp lute (kora) and western...

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  8. Herat Films (1983 Video)

    Director
    John Baily
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 107 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1999 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Three programmes edited from seven hours of Super-8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and 1977. All...

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  9. Music, Music, Music

    Date released
    2 Sep 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2048
    NoS ID
    027530
    Story no
    5 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Music, Music, Music. DESCRIPTION: From the workshop and Museum of Carl Dolmetch, musical instrument maker in the Surrey Countryside some example of fine craftsmanship. More musical...

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  10. Shakespeare’s "Songs" (2022 Video)

    Series
    Midtown Concerts

    Recording of a live streamed performance featuring soprano Sarah Pillow, lutenist Ronn McFarlane and actor Sorab Wadia. They perform ballads and love songs with Shakespeare, the music chosen from songs...

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