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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 YouTube video by Passamezzo

This video is the first of a series describing #earlymodern #dress in #music & song. Recorded as part of the #GreensleevesProject with generous support from @continuoconnect.bsky.social & @antiquaries.bsky.social .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpH4...

#earlymusicensemble #materialculture #dresshistory

Thomas Campion: Every Dame Affects Good Fame YouTube video by Passamezzo

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

Oh Ruth. This sounds like such a mess. Am really sorry. Sending love x

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

Passamezzo Moderno: Passemeze fait pour les cornets en 1615 YouTube video by Passamezzo

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

Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

‘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

2 people consulting a printed volume on a book cushion

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Connections - Early music and traditional songs from three faiths A fusion of Jewish, Christian and Moslem sacred music

Cambridge concert details
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...
#earlymusic #sacredmusic #sacredchant #fusion #interfaithdialogue #worldmusic #concert

Connections - Early music and traditional songs from three faiths A fusion of Jewish, Christian and Moslem sacred music

London Concert details
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection...
#earlymusic #worldmusic #earlymusicensemble #salamonerossi #anglomoroccan #aliufki #sufi #taize

Passamezzo and Ensemble Mogador Chant et Musique Soufie: Never weather-beaten sail/Maquam Nahawend YouTube video by Passamezzo

#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

Dances of the French Courts: 16th century Dance, Music and Songs from France, by The Historical Dance Society 31 track album

Recorded for the Historical Dance Society as part of their CD of French Court Dance thehistoricaldancesociety1.bandcamp.com/album/dances...

#cd #dancemusic #historicaldancesociety #historicaldance #earlydance

Aargh! Have realised that I put the wrong image in the video. This is the correct image for the Bouree.
BNF, département Réserve des livres rares, RES-YE-2633

#bnf #bouree #earlymusic #notation

La Bourree: Veux-tu donques ma belle. Parson's Farewell YouTube video by Passamezzo

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

The Pleasant Slumber - Apollo's Banquet YouTube video by Passamezzo

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