Musica Antica Rotherhithe
@musicaantica.bsky.social
Affordable concerts of music from the fifteenth - seventeenth centuries in South East London. Founded in 2016 by Dr Oliver Doyle and Jessica Eucker. musicaantica.org.uk
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The Edward III Manor House site has been added to the Heritage at Risk register historicengland.org.uk/listing/heri...
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Edward III Manor House site has been added to the Heritage at Risk register historicengland.org.uk/listing/heri...
How many lutes do you need to recreate a party in Venice in 1514? Three, it turns out! And viols, recorders, a clavicymbalum, and some lovely self-accompanied singing. Just once concert left for 2025 - tickets via our website! #rotherhithe #earlymusic
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How many lutes do you need to recreate a party in Venice in 1514? Three, it turns out! And viols, recorders, a clavicymbalum, and some lovely self-accompanied singing. Just once concert left for 2025 - tickets via our website! #rotherhithe #earlymusic
What better way to spend the morning?
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What better way to spend the morning?
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LIVE BAROQUE & EARLY MUSIC NEAR YOU 24-26 OCTOBER 🎵
Find 300+ upcoming UK concerts on our events page 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on
Find 300+ upcoming UK concerts on our events page 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
LIVE BAROQUE & EARLY MUSIC NEAR YOU 24-26 OCTOBER 🎵
Find 300+ upcoming UK concerts on our events page 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on
Find 300+ upcoming UK concerts on our events page 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on
Only a handful of tickets left now! The musical parties of Lucia Trivixan brought back to life after 511 years
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Only a handful of tickets left now! The musical parties of Lucia Trivixan brought back to life after 511 years
Flyers ready and out for delivery! A Banchieri comedy and some lovely madrigals by Monteverdi, Marenzio and Casualana next month - tickets via our website! #earlymusic #concert #renaissance #se16 #rotherhithe
August 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Flyers ready and out for delivery! A Banchieri comedy and some lovely madrigals by Monteverdi, Marenzio and Casualana next month - tickets via our website! #earlymusic #concert #renaissance #se16 #rotherhithe
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Hard copy of our book arrived!
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hard copy of our book arrived!
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And it’s live! We read every book published in Italy in 1501 looking for references to music, and this is the first volume on what we found. Thanks to @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk, it’s free to read, though you can buy hard copies too www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books
This volume explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist...
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August 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And it’s live! We read every book published in Italy in 1501 looking for references to music, and this is the first volume on what we found. Thanks to @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk, it’s free to read, though you can buy hard copies too www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
A week after launching the final stage of fundraising for our first album, & we’re almost there! Help bring the Venetian stage back to life in a new approach to recording the music of Cavalli, Strozzi & their contemporaries www.musicaantica.org.uk/support-our-... #opera #classicalmusic #earlymusic
Support our first album | Musica Antica
Unrecorded and long-unperformed music from the theatres of 1650s Venice.
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July 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A week after launching the final stage of fundraising for our first album, & we’re almost there! Help bring the Venetian stage back to life in a new approach to recording the music of Cavalli, Strozzi & their contemporaries www.musicaantica.org.uk/support-our-... #opera #classicalmusic #earlymusic
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I suspect you would love our local Rotherhithe lot, @musicaantica.bsky.social and @oliverdoyle.bsky.social .
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I suspect you would love our local Rotherhithe lot, @musicaantica.bsky.social and @oliverdoyle.bsky.social .
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Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic
We’re adding an oratorio not performed since 1669 to the seasonal mix of music on offer next month! Poster courtesy of Durer (with a lot of editing…) #earlymodern #earlymusic #classicalmusic #opera #lent #baroque #se16 #rotherhithe
March 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We’re adding an oratorio not performed since 1669 to the seasonal mix of music on offer next month! Poster courtesy of Durer (with a lot of editing…) #earlymodern #earlymusic #classicalmusic #opera #lent #baroque #se16 #rotherhithe
Our lovely venue for tonight’s concert! #earlymusic #london
February 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Our lovely venue for tonight’s concert! #earlymusic #london
A little improvisation upon a 15th century chant source from last night’s workshop with Tim Braithwaite!
February 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A little improvisation upon a 15th century chant source from last night’s workshop with Tim Braithwaite!
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A big thank you to our friends at @continuoconnect.bsky.social for helping us spread the word about our Josquin workshop on 8 March, led by Tim Braithwaite. 🙏
We still have space for more singers. Find out more: www.continuoconnect.com/events/unloc...
We still have space for more singers. Find out more: www.continuoconnect.com/events/unloc...
Concert | The Renaissance Singers: Unlocking the secret musical art of Josquin | Continuo Connect
The Renaissance Singers’ open workshops give anyone with some experience of singing and an ability to read music an opportunity to be coached on Renaissance repertoire by leading practitioners in the ...
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February 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A big thank you to our friends at @continuoconnect.bsky.social for helping us spread the word about our Josquin workshop on 8 March, led by Tim Braithwaite. 🙏
We still have space for more singers. Find out more: www.continuoconnect.com/events/unloc...
We still have space for more singers. Find out more: www.continuoconnect.com/events/unloc...
We’ve got a few spaces left for our *very affordable* improvised singing workshop next week with Tim Braithwaite - if you sing in a choir or play early instruments, do let your fellow musicians know! @renaissancesingers.bsky.social @swearlymusic.bsky.social www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
Improvised Polyphony with Tim Braithwaite
Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint.
www.musicaantica.org.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We’ve got a few spaces left for our *very affordable* improvised singing workshop next week with Tim Braithwaite - if you sing in a choir or play early instruments, do let your fellow musicians know! @renaissancesingers.bsky.social @swearlymusic.bsky.social www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
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Join @musicaantica.bsky.social for an exploration of realms of unconsciousness through testimonies & 17thC music in the UK's oldest surviving hospital chapel.
A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre.
📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm
📍Guy's Hospital Chapel
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A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre.
📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm
📍Guy's Hospital Chapel
🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...
Concert | Musica Antica Rotherhithe: L'Elisio, or Elysium | Continuo Connect
Musica Antica perform music by Stefano Landi, Luigi Rossi and Michelangelo Falvetti alongside powerful testimonies from people who have awoken from comas.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Join @musicaantica.bsky.social for an exploration of realms of unconsciousness through testimonies & 17thC music in the UK's oldest surviving hospital chapel.
A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre.
📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm
📍Guy's Hospital Chapel
🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...
A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre.
📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm
📍Guy's Hospital Chapel
🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...
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Application deadline for trustee positions at Southwark Charities closes tomorrow, 13th February 2025.
If you are interested in applying please forward your CV by email to: info@southwarkcharities.org.uk
More information on the trustee roles 👇
trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/southw...
If you are interested in applying please forward your CV by email to: info@southwarkcharities.org.uk
More information on the trustee roles 👇
trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/southw...
Trustees | Trustees Unlimited
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February 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Application deadline for trustee positions at Southwark Charities closes tomorrow, 13th February 2025.
If you are interested in applying please forward your CV by email to: info@southwarkcharities.org.uk
More information on the trustee roles 👇
trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/southw...
If you are interested in applying please forward your CV by email to: info@southwarkcharities.org.uk
More information on the trustee roles 👇
trustees-unlimited.co.uk/roles/southw...
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Excited to learn from an email today that @musicaantica.bsky.social will be recording their first album later this year. They're a fantastic outfit, and I really should trek over to Rotherhithe more often. Here are a couple of them performing some French gorgeousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIN...
Jean-Baptiste de Bousset: Pourquoy doux Rossignol
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February 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Excited to learn from an email today that @musicaantica.bsky.social will be recording their first album later this year. They're a fantastic outfit, and I really should trek over to Rotherhithe more often. Here are a couple of them performing some French gorgeousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIN...
A brand new piece of theatre for our first event of 2025! Powerful spoken word and beautiful music by Rossi, Landi and Falvetti, all in the oldest surviving hospital chapel in the UK. Tickets via our website!
February 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A brand new piece of theatre for our first event of 2025! Powerful spoken word and beautiful music by Rossi, Landi and Falvetti, all in the oldest surviving hospital chapel in the UK. Tickets via our website!
Bluesky-friendly clip of the first of our latest videos - Marenzio’s lovely ‘Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte’.
January 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Bluesky-friendly clip of the first of our latest videos - Marenzio’s lovely ‘Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte’.
Marenzio’s lovely Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte, which we recorded earlier this month, singing from partbooks and by candlelight!
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Luca Marenzio: Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte
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January 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Marenzio’s lovely Crudel, Acerba, Inesorabil Morte, which we recorded earlier this month, singing from partbooks and by candlelight!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKQ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lIKQ...
We’re delighted to be hosting a workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite of the
Cappella Pratensis, on improvising polyphony over plainchant in London next month! Tickets £2-£10, and all welcome, whether you sing or play professionally, for fun, or not at all! www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
Cappella Pratensis, on improvising polyphony over plainchant in London next month! Tickets £2-£10, and all welcome, whether you sing or play professionally, for fun, or not at all! www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
Improvised Polyphony with Tim Braithwaite
Drawing on historical visualisation and memorisation techniques, this session aims to introduce the participant to the basic building blocks of improvised counterpoint.
www.musicaantica.org.uk
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We’re delighted to be hosting a workshop, led by Tim Braithwaite of the
Cappella Pratensis, on improvising polyphony over plainchant in London next month! Tickets £2-£10, and all welcome, whether you sing or play professionally, for fun, or not at all! www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
Cappella Pratensis, on improvising polyphony over plainchant in London next month! Tickets £2-£10, and all welcome, whether you sing or play professionally, for fun, or not at all! www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...
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Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle
January 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle
Recording fun tonight, the day after we launched our 2025 season! Six concerts spanning three centuries of music, and tickets for a tenner or less! Tickets and full details for each programme via our website, musicaantica.org.uk #rotherhithe #se16 #earlymusic
January 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Recording fun tonight, the day after we launched our 2025 season! Six concerts spanning three centuries of music, and tickets for a tenner or less! Tickets and full details for each programme via our website, musicaantica.org.uk #rotherhithe #se16 #earlymusic