Lovely photo in yesterday's @thetimes.com showing Passamezzo playing at Greenwich. Slightly unfortunate juxtaposition of headline to picture, given that we were playing at the Old Royal Naval College... #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #tudortuesday #tudor #tudors #heritageinterpretation

Such a lovely weekend, playing #tudor #music in the Painted Hall at Greenwich as part of their #tudortakeover. #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #tudors #henryviii #anneboleyn

Today's marginal musicians are playing #shawm and #nakers. From a #14thCentury Psalterium Romanum. BNF Latin 772 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #psalter

A list of essential household items a married man needs to own to avoid social embarrassment & hardship according to 'L'Oustillement au Vilain' (“The Equipment of the Peasant”), a 13th century poem: And garlic and leeks, And chives and onions; And the tub for bathing!!!

Thomas Campion: Every dame affects good fame. A #17thCentury song complaining about excessive and changeable fashions in women's clothing. From The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, 1617 Emily Atkinson: #Soprano Sam Brown: #Lute Alison Kinder: Bass #Viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpH4... #earlymusic

Today's #marginalmusicians include a very strange creature playing the #psaltery - part #porcupine, part bird, part something else? Also a #bagpiper. From a #15thCentury Flemish #bookofhours, c1475 Fitzwilliam ms 268 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #bagpipes

#throwbackthursday Playing at the Rose Theatre in 2005 #earlymusic #musicianlife #rosetheatre

An early #17thCentury setting of a Passamezzo Moderno. Recorded for the #HistoricalDance Society as part of their #CD of French Court #Dance www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3GF... #earlymodern #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlydance #courtstudies

‘Women were more often engaged in agricultural work – especially milking cows but also other forms of animal husbandry, along with weeding, sowing and harvesting crops – than they were in care work.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern working patterns. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's #Pesach, so here are some bonus #marginalmusicians. #Trumpeters at each corner, and a band playing at the bottom. From the Barcelona #Hagaddah, #14thCentury. BL Add 14761 #earlymusic #passover #rebec #cittern #bagpipes #trumpet #illuminatedmanuscript

Throwback Thursday: playing in Marion Barraitser's play about Eleanor Marx, 'The Crystal Den' at the New End Theatre in 2002. #throwbackthursday #throwbackthursdays #musicianlife #musicianslife #theatre #newendtheatre #violin #violinist #yiddishmusic #yiddish

A surviving fifteenth-century stained glass roundel from Lincoln Cathedral representing the month of April

Today's #marginalmusicians (#bagpiper, #lutenist & #trumpeter) are all unfinished outlines, with the colours still to be added. From L'Ystoire du tres sainct Charlesmayne, 1475-1500 BnF, Français 4970 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #lute #15thCentury

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#ThrowbackThursday: #Earlymusic #worldmusic #fusion - playing with Ensemble Mogador Chant et Musique Soufie in 2011. Really looking forward to doing this again in May. Concerts in London & Cambridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ZY... #interfaith #intercultural #earlymusicensemble #sufi #moroccan

25 March is the Feast of the Annunciation aka #LadyDay, so here's a #17thCentury #countrydance for today. The melody first appears in Playford's #DancingMaster in 1687, with choreography being added in the 1698 edition. #earlymusic #earlymodern #otd #onthisday #earlydance #dance #otd #onthisday

Orianaes farewell, also known as Oriana's Epitaph: a #madrigal by Thomas Bateson. Written on the death Queen Elizabeth I, who died #onthisday in 1603. From the First Set of English Madrigales, 1604 #tudortuesday #tudors #tudor #earlymusic #thomasbateson #earlymodern #ElizabethI

Today's #marginalmusician is a #monkey playing the #trumpet while sitting on a hog. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours. #BNF Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Ms-639 réserve #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic

Pierre Guédron: La #Bourree. A #17thCentury #dance from the French Court. A #pastoral dialogue From Le recueil des plus belles chansons, Jacques Mangeant, 1615 The melody is similar to the English #CountryDance, Parson's Farewell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZr... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlydance

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing with Ensemble Mogador Chant et Musique Soufie as part of the Shore To Shore Project in 2012 So looking forward to working on this project again in May 🙂 #earlymusic #worldmusic #fusion #musicianlife #interfaith #intercultural #anglomoroccan

Today's #marginalmusicians are three strange hybrid creatures playing the #psaltery. From a French #bookofhours, c1415. Heures dites de Joseph Bonaparte #BNF #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #psaltery #fiifteenthcentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Something for #WorldSleepDay The Pleasant Slumber - an anonymous #17thCentury #dance, or perhaps a #lullaby. First printed by John #Playford in Apollo's Banquet, 1670. Alison Kinder: bass #viol Robin Jeffrey: baroque #guitar www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVfm... #earlymusic #earlymodern

Today is #internationalbagpipeday so here are a few #15thCentury marginal #bagpipers - #monkeys and strange creatures - from the Chansonnier cordiforme de Montchenu, c1470-1480 BNF Rothschild 2973 #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #chansonnier #notation #sheetmusic #iconography #marginalmusicians

Today's #marginalmusicians are a #bear playing the #lute, and an #owl holding a sheet of #music for a #boar to sing. From Breviarium abbatis pars hiemalis, 1493/4 Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Sal. IXc #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #15thC #renaissance

Very cool! A Roman dice tower.

Something for #BritishPieWeek #GreenSleeves and Pudding-Pies, #Playford's #DancingMaster, 1686. Pudding #pies were popular street food and they are often mentioned in #ballads and street cries. Woodcut from a set of #CriesofLondon in the Pepys Library. #earlymusic #earlymodern #pieweek

My friend the climatologist tells me what worries him is the climate. My friend the epidemiologist tells me what worries them are infections. My friend the historian tells me what worries her are the people who aren’t worried.

In 1550, one Elephant Power (EP) was the equivalent of 10 Horse Power (HP).

Maltese Bransle: A #sixteenthcentury #dance from Arbeau's #Orchesography, 1589 Image: Turkish men and women in Codice de Trajes, c1547 National Library of Spain www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpKY... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlydance #renaissance #16thCentury #16thC #earlymusicensemble #earlymodernsky

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Today's #marginalmusicians are playing #recorder for dancers. Also illuminated initial, of Florentine #composer & #organist #AndreadaFirenze. #Squarcialupi Codex, #14thCentury. Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana: I-Fl MS Mediceo Palatino 87 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #medieval

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Really looking forward to giving the EDC Annual Lecture tomorrow. I'll be talking about the #greensleevesproject www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-greens... #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #earlymusic #historicaldance #materialculture #tudor #tudors #textiles

A putto blowing soap bubbles, sitting on a type case full of type, and the letters in the bubbles read as: VANITAS (vanity). A beautiful reflection of human writing and publishing, #skystorians 1/2

Rijksmuseum!!! They have a lot of English and French materials, in addition to Dutch! I also wrote a blog post about this a few years ago. I’ve tried to keep it updated! sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Today's #marginalmusicians (a #monkey and a #fox) are playing #pipeandtabor. From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80 BNF Français 1654 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #iconography #musicalanimals

It's magnolia time of year again :)

#throwbackthursday Playing #17thcentury music at the #nationalgallery for a #valentinesday late event a few years ago #earlymusic

A song for #shrovetuesday A #17thCentury setting of #Psalm 127, described as being suitable for Shrove-Tuesday or a wedding. From La scala santa, 1670. Emily Atkinson: #soprano Robin Jeffrey: #lute Alison Kinder: bass #viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ3... #earlymusic #otd #onthisday

Today's marginal #musician is a #skeleton playing the #lute. From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80. BNF Français 1654 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic

Something for today: A #17thcentury #carol for #valentinesday. From A Cabinet of Choice Jewels, 1688 #earlymodern #onthisday #otd

#ThrowbackThursday #GeorgePeele's Arraygnment of Paris In the #PaintedHall at the #OldRoyalNavalCollege, Greenwich in 2003 With #theLionspart & Renaissance Footnotes #earlymusic #earlymodern #musicianlife #tudor #tudors #elizabethandrama #earlymusicensemble #troy #classicalmythology

Today's #marginalmusicians are #muses, playing music in honour of Albrecht V of Bavaria. Detail from #CiprianodelRore's motet Mirabar solito in an #illuminated #choirbook, c1559 Munich, BSB Mus. Ms. B I #earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #renaissance #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #lute

Which Superb Owl Are You Today? Every #SuperbOwl is from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social!

Good Morrow Valentine. Three #SeventeenthCentury #Songs and a #Dance for #ValentinesDay. #earlymusic #sheetmusic #ballads #17thCentury #earlymodern #Valentine #broadsideballads www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/good...

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing for #Tudor dancing at the #BritishMuseum about 15 years ago #earlymusic #musicianlife #musicianslife #tudors #historicalinterpretation #heritage #heritageinterpretation #historicaldance #earlydance

Looking forward to playing for Colchester #EarlyMusic on 1 March. The King's Delight: #Music, words & #song from #Restoration Britain. Do join us! #earlymodern #charlesii #17thCentury #plague #greatfireoflondon #earlymusicensemble www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/passamezzo...

2 February is #Candlemas, and the traditional end of #Christmas, so here is a song for today: our recording of a #17thCentury #ballad #carol for Candlemas-Day. From A Cabinet of Choice Jewels, 1688 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGNY... #earlymusic #earlymodern #seasonal #earlymodernsky

It's #Candlemas today, so the #marginalmusician is a detail from a page showing the Presentation at the Temple in a #15thCentury #bookofhours. A creature (half man, half something else?) playing the #trumpet. BNF NAL 3110 #earlymusic #MarginaliaMonday #ManuscriptMonday