The Passamezzo sheep has come out of the cupboard. It must be time to start rehearsing our Christmas programme... The sheep will be appearing in concerts in Watford and Canterbury later this year 🙂 #earlymusic #concerts #christmasconcert #earlymodern #carols #christmascarols #englishcivilwar #17thc

Trying to find out more about lighting for #earlymodern night/evening entertainments - masques and indoor and outdoor events. Can anyone help? #earlymodernsky #renaissancesky #masque

#tudortuesday Thy peticote of Sendall right Lady #Greensleeves, is dressed in a petticoat of sendal (fine silk) over her red woollen petticoat. Find out more at the MEDATS #greensleevesproject #conference & #exhibition on 22 November www.medats.org.uk/events/green... #materialculture #tudors #tudor

A ?rabbit playing a #bladderpipe while two other ?rabbits dance. Leaf from a #psalter and #prayerbook, c1524 James Parmelee Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art. @cmamedieval.bsky.social #earlymusic #earlymodern #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #rabbit #rabbits #earlymodernsky #iconography

Nice! For anyone with an evensong tonight, I have a further suggestion. Email me if you want a pdf. Enjoy!

For #ThrowbackThursday: Playing the #violin for the wedding dance in #ADiscoveryofWitches, November 2019. @debharkness.bsky.social's wonderful books are among my favourites, so being part of this production was a dream job for me. #earlymusic #musicianlife

A song for #5november Thomas Campion's #lutesong, 'Bravely decked come forth bright day', celebrating the foiling of the #GunpowderPlot #otd 1605. From Two Books of Ayres, 1613 #earlymusic #earlymodern #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #guyfawkes #gunpowdertreasonandplot #jamesI #17thCentury

Today's #marginal #musicians are blue #angels playing golden stringed instruments - #fiddle, #psaltery & #harp. More (not blue) angels in the main image, #singing & playing #lute & #recorder. Coetivy Hours, c1443-5 Chester Beatty W 082 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illumination

Gaudeamus Omnes - An introit for #AllSaintsDay From a #15thCentury #Italian #illuminated #gradual. Sotheby's www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/... #otd #onthisday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #choirbook #gradual #illuminatedinitials #renaissancesky #renaissance #renaissanceart

#ThrowbackThursday Recording Psalm 107 for our #Mayflower #CD 'They that in ships unto the sea down go' at St John's Wood Church, late October 2019 Eleanor Cramer: soprano Alison Kinder: bass viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhTG... #earlymusic #earlymodern

For #TudorTuesday: 'Thy girdle of gold so red, with pearles bedecked sumptuously' Lady #Greensleeves has a richly decorated girdle placed over her 'Gown of Grossie Green' Gown and girdle by @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social greensleevesproject.uk #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #16thCentury

A psalm for #Harvest. Maurice Greene's setting of psalm 65 Eleanor Cramer: #soprano Christopher Goodwin: #theorbo, #tenor Alison Kinder: bass #viol Tamsin Lewis: alto Peter Luke Kenny: #bass www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6wc... #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble

Throwback Thursday: Playing Elizabethan music at Athelhampton House, 2023 #ThrowbackThursday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #historichouse #concert

ברוך מתיר אסורים Blessed are You, who releases the captive. There should have been an All for All deal two years ago, but here we are--after so much harm, so much annihilation. Every life saved is a thing of consequence. May this be the beginning of a new future for all the peoples in the Land.

Today's marginal #musicians are playing the #lute and singing from partbooks. Detail from Cipriano de Rore's Da pacem Domine, in a lavish #choirbook from 1559. BSB Mus. ms. B(1. #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript

#Throwbackthursday In Long Melford in 2009 #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife

You should be making merry with Jan Massys of Antwerp and his elegant friends, who are celebrating his day.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

#TudorTuesday: 'I bought thee kerchers to thy head, that were wrought fine and gallantly' @callumcoates.bsky.social (The lover) presents an embroidered kercher to Lady #Greensleeves greensleevesproject.uk #earlymodern #materialculture #greensleevesproject #tudor #tudors #historicaldress

Today's #marginalmusician is a rather indistinct #lutenist. Opposite an image of David with a #harp. From an #illuminatedmanuscript in the National Library of the Czech Republic, iii.h.37, c1500 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #lute #earlymodern

2 #songs from the #Greensleeves conference at @antiquaries.bsky.social in July: #Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to his Love #Raleigh: The Nymph’s Reply Emily Atkinson: soprano @callumcoates.bsky.social : actor Robin Jeffrey: #lute Lynda Sayce: flute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJsA... #earlymusic

It's Bandcamp Friday, and we've got lots of music for you to listen to! passamezzo.bandcamp.com #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #recordingartist #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama

Throwback Thursday. Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022 @elartpro.bsky.social #throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

TIL that people actually did call each other 'varlet' in the past and also that 'loggerhead' was once an insult

Today's marginal #musician is playing the #bagpipes. From a #15thCentury history of #Troy. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic

27 September is #InternationalRabbitDay, so here are a couple of musical #rabbits from the margins of the Hours of Charlotte of Savoy, 1420-1425. MS M.1004 #earlymusic #otd #onthisday #illuminatedmanuscript #drum #shawm #15thCentury #bookofhours #rabbit #marginalia

One for #ThrowbackThursday: Singing at Parham House, c2017 #throwbackthursdays #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #heritage #history #historicalinterpretion #historythroughmusic #earlymodern

Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing. Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity! #earlymusic #earlymodern

Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460 Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186 #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript

Oliver is in the bath again

#lisleletters #otd 1536 The #silkwoman Eleanor Whalley sends a gift to Lady LIsle: it may please you to receive of this bearer, the Master of Barthelot’s ship of Calais, one hundred of #quinces, beseeching your ladyship to accept them a’worth at this present #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #quince

Fantastic wallpaper in our bathroom at Hever

Lovely to play #Tudor music at Hever last Saturday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #Hever #Tudors

Todays #marginal #musician is playing the #organ. From the Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c1466-77 Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobon. 1856 #organist #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bookofhours #renaissance #marginalia #earlymusic

Today is #WorldChocolateDay! Here is a #17thcentury #ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate, printed in the year that the first chocolate (and coffee) house was opened in London.... From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ... #earlymusic #earlymodern #otd

"Do not expect to hear of all your good at once" a song and chorus from Ben Jonson's #Masque of Augurs (1622). Music by Nicholas Lanier, who was born #onthisday 1588. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMW... #earlymusic #earlymodern #benjonson #courtmasque

Today's #marginalmusician is playing the #lute. Not sure if it's a woman sitting on an animal, or a hybrid creature, part human, part something else. From the Crohin-La Fontaine Hours, Bruges, 1480-85. Getty Ms. 23 (86.ML.606) #earlymusic #bookofhours #lutenist #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday

Yesterday's office. So lovely to be back at Athelhampton

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing #Tudor music at the #NationalPortraitGallery in 2024. For a Youth Late event, part of the 6 Queens exhibition. #tudors #henryviii #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #

A lovely entry: George Yonge, musician, given a gift of over £6 at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury (!) for teaching students at the Merchant Taylors' school plainsong for 30 years @passamezzo.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social

Throwback Thursday: Teaching Danny Dyer to play the lute. (Filming Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family at Ingatestone c2018/9 #earlymusic #throwbackthursday

Not sure what today's #marginal #musician is playing. I'd have said #TrombaMarina, but it has more than one string and is plucked. Also, he looks a bit like a #snowman... From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80 BNF Français 1654 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday

A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2... #earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad

8 August is #InternationalCatDay, so here is a #cat playing the #portativeorgan. (With a bonus #dog playing the #shawm on the full page) From an illuminated prayerbook, c1480-90 Walters Ms. W.438 #internationalcatday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

Today's marginal #musician (if he is a musician) is blowing on a pair of #bellows. From a #bookofhours made in Flanders in 1480 for Jan van der Scaghe & his wife Anne de Memere Premonstratensian Canonry in Nová Říše, NR 90 #illuminatedmanuscript #15thC #marginaliamonday #marginalia #15thcentury

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing for Aurelian Townshend's #masque #TempeRestored at the Banqueting House in 2013. It was lovely to be part of this project - a great team, and some particularly good cakes! #earlymusic #earlymodern #inigojones #courtmasque #heritage #17thC

31 July is #unusualinstrumentday, so here is a marginal creature (part man, part something else, and with wings on his ears) playing a pair of #bellows with a #woodenspoon for a bow... From a #15thCentury #missal (use of Cambrai) Le Labo - Cambrai 146 #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia

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Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of #shepherds with their #dogs, taking a break from playing #bagpipe &#pipeandtabor. From a #15thCentury missal Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen, Ms Y 1 #earlymusic #marginalia #marginaliamonday #illuminatedmanuscript #bagpipes #dog