William Byrd Have With Yow to Walsingame Videos
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performed by Rosemary Blandford Thoma "Be off to Walsingham" is based on a popular Elizabethan tune on which Byrd composed 22 variations.The words of this song are as follows As I went to Walsingham To the shrine with speed, Met I with a jolly palmer In a pilgrim's weed. The song refers to the pilgrimage to Walsingham,where a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary was a popular pilgrimage centre for Christians until it was dismantled in1538."Palmer" meant a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land bringing back a palm branch. According to Bradley Brookshire,the variations form a sort of "covert speech" addressed to Catholic recusants.he argues that it includes "musically encoded symbols of Catholic veneration and lament" 1.Bradley Brookshire,"Bare ruined quiers,where late the sweet birds sang" Covert Speech in William Byrds Walsingham variations,in Walsingham in Literature and culture from the Middle Ages to modernity,Ashgate Publishing,Ltd.,2010.p.199ff
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