Today's #marginalmusician is playing the #lute. Possibly managing to wake the dead? From the Hours of Charles V, c1500. BNE VITR/24/3 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #earlymodern
Tamsin Lewis
@passamezzo.bsky.social
Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA. Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre. Early Modernist. Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project. Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Some bonus #marginalmusicians for #UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay. These half human creatures are all blowing or bowing the #bellows. Drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. #earlymusic #marginalia #medieval
Today's #marginalmusician is a #cat (I think) playing the #trumpet. Drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. @metmuseum.org #marginalia #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic
#ThrowbackThursday: Playing the #harp for a #Tudor event at #ElthamPalace, c2006 #throwbackthursday #musicianlife #musicianslife #earlymusic #tudor #tudors
Today's marginal musicians are a selection of #bagpipers drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. @metmuseum.org #MarginaliaMonday #marginalia #ManuscriptMonday #earlymusic #medievalmusic #medieval #bagpipe
#Throwbackthursday Singing for a dance in Becoming Elizabeth (Starz) in 2021/2 #earlymusic #musicianlife #tudor #tudors
Me with a music book in 1553 at #Tudor Midsummer at @kentwellhall.bsky.social Photograph by Andy Longhurst #kentwell #kentwellhall #tudors
Today's #marginalmusicians are a both hybrid creatures (one part #fool) playing #bagpipe and #tabor. From a #15thCentury book of hours BNF NAL 3115 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #iconography #jester
Petticoat Wag: a #17thCentury #countrydance from Playford's Dancing Master, 1651 From a series of recordings of #earlymusic & #song associated with dress in #earlymodern England. Recorded with support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6110...
Petticoat Wag
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#ThrowbackThursday: Singing #ballads about working conditions in #17thCentury Britain at the University of Exeter for their Forms of Labour #Conference in 2022. #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #labour #musicianlife #musicianslife
Something for #InternationalChocolateDay: A #17thcentury ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate. From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652. Richard de Winter: tenor Robin Jeffrey: #baroque #guitar Alison Kinder: treble viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ... #earlymusic #earlymodern #otd
In Praise of Chocolate
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Today's #marginalmusician is another musical #dragon. Playing the #shawm this time. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours. University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, MS1, c1424 #marginaliamonday #ManuscriptMonday #earlymusic #wyvern
#throwbackthursday Playing at the Museum of the Order of St John in 2015 #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #fairies #musicianlife #musicianslife #elizabethan
The Lord's Prayer/The Call to Prayer/The Shema A video from one of our concerts in May. A musical #fusion of #Jewish, #Christian & #Moslem daily prayers, based around a popular #16thCentury melody. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3E... #earlymusic #sacred #musicforpeace #song
The Lord's Prayer - The Call to Prayer -The Shema
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Really lovely to bring the #greensleevesproject to @chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday with @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social. We also played a bit of pre-show music for @callumcoates.bsky.social and Emma Bown's cue-scripted production of Macbeth. Grateful that it was cooler than the previous days
Today's #marginalmusicians are #dragons! I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure. From a #15thCentury book of hours. Morgan M358 c1447 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon
#ThrowbackThursday Playing in Balshaw's Jigge in 2023. A #17thCentury musical play, discovered by the amazing @wallyberry.bsky.social and performed for the first time in 350 years. An audience member sketched us on her programme. #earlymusic #musicianlife #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #ballad #jig
Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the hunting horn. Sketches in an unfinished #15thcentury #bookofhours. Morgan Library M358, c1447 #earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday
Today's #marginalmusicians are a bagpiping #ape sitting on a drum, a trumpeter, and a couple of dancing apes. From a #15thCentury manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF Fr 2643 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday
Thomas Morley: Will you buy a fine dog From The First Booke of Ayres, 1600 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcZg... From a series of #earlymusic #videos about #dress #earlymodern England, for the #GreensleevesProject. Recorded with support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social
Thomas Morley: Will You Buy a Fine Dog
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Today's #marginalmusicians include half human creatures playing #lute & #harp, and a couple of apes - one sitting on a #drum, one playing the #psaltery. From a #15thCentury #manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF 2643 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #renaissance #iconography
A ballad by Anthony Munday describing clothing choices for virtuous #tudor women. To the tune of Monsieur's Almain www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDyd... Recorded with support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social #earlymusic #earlymodern #tudors #dresshistory #elizabethan
Monsieur's Almain
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Yesterday's office. A wonderful first night for our new programme: Connections - #earlymusic and traditional #song from three faiths. #concert #interfaith #earlymusicensemble #jewish #christian #moslem #intercultural #musicforpeace It's a great programme - do come to our other concerts if you can.
Poster for our concert in Cambridge this Sunday. Do join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection... #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicforpeace #interfaith #intercultural
It’s getting ridiculous. Reform UK are now posting this “Farage was the first public figure to sound the alarm 5 years ago. Reform UK will detain and deport all illegal migrants” Let’s remind Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3mo agoLet’s call this bull**** out TOGETHER The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
Connections - a #fusion of #Jewish, #Christian & #Moslem sacred music, mixing #17thCentury sung prayers, (inc works by Rossi, Goudimel, Campion & Ali Ufki) #Moroccan #Sufi chant, #Taize chant, #Syrian Maquam & #Hebrew song. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection... #earlymusic #musicforpeace #worldmusic
The conflict in Gaza that has fuelled antisemitism and Islamophobia is spilling into everyday life. People are starting to blame individuals and communities for the actions of governments or armed groups. This is dangerous, says psychotherapist Meg Schwarz. #antisemitism #Islamophobia
The cost of turning identity into blame
The conflict in Gaza that has fuelled antisemitism and Islamophobia is spilling into everyday life. People are starting to blame individuals and communities for the actions of governments or armed groups. This is dangerous.
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