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
Today's #marginalmusician is a monstrous creature playing the #lute.
From La #DanseMacabre, c1500-1510
BNF Français 995
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymodern #illuminatedmanuscript #lutenist #sixteenthcentury
Today's #marginalmusician is a #lutenist sitting on a branch.
From a #15thCentury German #Gradual, c1450
Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E M 64:13
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #lute #illuminatedmanuscript #marginalia
#cat #illustration #art #picture #graphic #CatMusician #Lute
#anthropomorphicanimals #anthropo #lutenist
Lutenist
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 5
Today is the Eve of the Feast of #StNicholas, so here's a #17thCentury #scottish #lute solo played by the wonderful Sam Brown
Swit Saint Nikcola
From the Rowallan #LuteBook, c1620
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeI0...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #lutenist #jansteen
Next mad project: fixing a #renaissance #lute that I got for free. The stable has come loose but except from that it’s in good condition. Looking forward to add #lutenist to my CV. 😅 #earlymusic #renaissancemusic
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
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
Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of lady lutenists playing in a #garden.
From a Belgian #bookofhours, c1490
Morgan Ms S7
#MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #lute #womeninmusic #lutenist #15thcentury #history #historysky
#Sting sings "In Darkness Let Me Dwell"
by John #Dowland (c1563-1626)
accompanied by #lutenist #EdinKaramazov
...the song is described as "possibly the most perfect song ever written in the English language"...
youtu.be/EBJkb5wrw-Q?... (5:18)
#lutesong #lute
Lady Music playing the #lute
Detail from an Allegory of the Seven Liberal Arts, c1600
(Private Collection)
By Marten de Vos, who died #OTD 1603.
#earlymodern
#OnThisDay
#earlymusic
#liberalarts
#allegory #iconography #lutenist #tablature
More marginal musicians :)
#Angel playing the #bagpipes
#Lutenist on a horse
#Piper
From a late #15thCentury #bookofhours, use of Rome.
Philadelphia Free Library, E102
#earlymusic
#marginalia
#illuminatedmanuscript
#lute
Yesterday's office.
So lovely to play #Tudor #music at the NPG yesterday evening.
#earlymusic #tudors #heritage #museum #nationalportraitgallery #musicianlife #musicianslife #historicalinterpretation #historythroughmusic #sixteenthcentury #16thcentury #lute #lutenist #recorder #flute #rebec
A #16thCentury #stainedglass roundel showing a couple making music. The woman playing the #lute doesn't look particularly happy...
After Jan Swart van Groningen, c1530
Rijksmuseum
#earlymusic #lutenist #flute #earlymodern #sixteenthcentury #musicians
'Disdaine me still,' John Dowland's setting of a poem attributed to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke.
From A Pilgrimes Solace, 1612.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Sam Brown: lute
Lynda Sayce: bass viol
#earlymusic #earlymodern #dowland #lutenist #17thCentury
The Queen's Pantoufle: a #lute solo named after a #pantofle - a sort of #slipper or overshoe worn in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Sam Brown: lute
From Osborn fb7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0zG...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #lutenist #16thCentury #17thcentury #historicalshoes #historyoffashion #shoes
#Musicians (singing and playing #lute, #harp and #viol) in the Garden of False Learning.
Needlepoint hanging (French 1550-1580) based on a woodcut by David Kandel, 1547.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #lutenist #16thCentury #sixteenthcentury
Today's #video is Begone, sweet night, an anonymous #Scottish #song from the early #17thCentury.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKz...
#earlymusic #lutenist #scotland #earlymodern #earlymusicensemble #youtube
Some lovely details painted on the lid of this #16thCentury Swiss wooden box.
#Musicmaking and dining, with a seated woman playing #lute, standing man with #fiddle.
#earlymusic #earlymodern #materialculture #sixteenthcentury #violin #lutenist
The Sick Tune: an anonymous #sixteenthcentury ballad melody from MS Dd.9.33
Played by Sam Brown
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HF...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #tudors #16thCentury #lutenist #lute #shakespeare #nashe #tudor #elizabethan
My Little Sweet Darling
An anonymous Tudor lullaby (sometimes attributed to William Byrd)
Sam Brown: lute
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8p...
#earlymusic #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #lutenist
Another image of a #lute player.
By Hans von Aachen (died #onthisday 1615) Self portrait with Venusta Ceccarini, wife of the artist Anthonis Santvoort, playing the lute, c1580-1585. #otd #onthisdayinhistory #lutenist #earlymusic #Renaissance #earlymodern
A lovely day yesterday, working with wonderful musicians to create some new videos.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing them soon :)
#earlymusic
#recordingartist
#viol
#violadagamba
#lute
#lutenist
#musicianlife
John Dowland: Sleep, wayward thoughts
from The First Booke of Songs or Ayres, 1597.
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1-H...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #Tudor #Tudors #tudormusic #elizabethan #lutenist #lutesong #Dowland #16thCentury #lute
'Gerardus Lewlin', by FortunataFox. Full image:
#FanArtFriday #Illustration #GhostOfATale #Folklore #Legend #IndieWatch #IndieDev #TraditionalArt #Lutenist
"The wise minstrel knows the song is not as important as the way in which it is sung."
- Master Lewlin (art by @sinto_j) #WednesdayWisdom #lutenist #lute #illustration #art #GhostOfATale
