The sources and origin of the “Agincourt Carol”
The sources and origin of the “Agincourt Carol”
The origins of the infamous ‘Agincourt Carol’, celebrating Henry V's military campaign of 1415, have often been the subject of fanciful speculation, but very little concrete evidence has so far been discovered. This article reports the new discovery that the carol's text relates closely to other poems celebrating the event, and may have been their source. It explores in more detail the surviving accounts of the victory pageant mounted in London on the king's return, during which the carol may have been performed. New evidence concerning the carol's earliest musical source has allowed a more precise dating and possible provenance to be established, elucidating the musical and literary worlds in which this most intriguing of medieval songs was composed.
agincourt carol, medieval song, carol, Henry V, the trinity roll, mettingham
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Deeming, Helen
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2007
Deeming, Helen
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Deeming, Helen
(2007)
The sources and origin of the “Agincourt Carol”.
Early Music, 35 (1), .
(doi:10.1093/em/cal119).
Abstract
The origins of the infamous ‘Agincourt Carol’, celebrating Henry V's military campaign of 1415, have often been the subject of fanciful speculation, but very little concrete evidence has so far been discovered. This article reports the new discovery that the carol's text relates closely to other poems celebrating the event, and may have been their source. It explores in more detail the surviving accounts of the victory pageant mounted in London on the king's return, during which the carol may have been performed. New evidence concerning the carol's earliest musical source has allowed a more precise dating and possible provenance to be established, elucidating the musical and literary worlds in which this most intriguing of medieval songs was composed.
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Published date: 2007
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agincourt carol, medieval song, carol, Henry V, the trinity roll, mettingham
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Local EPrints ID: 45588
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45588
ISSN: 1741-7260
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