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Tamsin Lewis
@passamezzo.bsky.social
Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
#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
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Nice! For anyone with an evensong tonight, I have a further suggestion. Email me if you want a pdf. Enjoy!
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#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
They that in ships unto the sea down go
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
Maurice Greene: Thou visitest the earth
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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October 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Throwback Thursday:
Playing Elizabethan music at Athelhampton House, 2023

#ThrowbackThursday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble
#musicianlife #historichouse #concert
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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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.
October 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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
October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
October 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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You should be making merry with Jan Massys of Antwerp and his elegant friends, who are celebrating his day.
October 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#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
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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
Christopher Marlowe: Come live with me and be my love; Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply.
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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October 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Throwback Thursday.
Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022

@elartpro.bsky.social

#throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
October 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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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).
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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TIL that people actually did call each other 'varlet' in the past and also that 'loggerhead' was once an insult
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Today's marginal #musician is playing the #bagpipes.
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM