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Tamsin Lewis
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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.
A song for #Ephiphany
William #Byrd: Vidimus Stellam
From Gradualia, 1607

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS...

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #adorationofthemagi #williambyrd
William Byrd: Vidimus Stellam
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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January 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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
January 5, 2026 at 10:12 AM
1 January is the #eighthdayofChristmas, and the Feast of the Circumcision.
Here is an #illuminated initial from a song for today, from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475.
#BostonPublicLIbrary
#earlymusic #renaissance #renaissancesky #otd
January 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
28 December is the #fourthdayofChristmas, and the Feast of the #HolyInnocents.

Here is an #illuminated initial from a #song for #InnocentsDay, from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475.
#BostonPublicLIbrary
#earlymusic #renaissance #otd
December 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
27 December is the #thirddayofChristmas, and the Feast of St John, so here is a #17thCentury #ballad - mostly about feasting and #mincedpies...
From New Carrolls for this Merry Time of Christmas, 1661
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALx...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #mincepies #otd #onthisday
Passamezzo: A Carol for St John's Day - Sellenger's Round
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
26 December is the #seconddayofChristmas, and the Feast of #StStephen.
This detail from a #15thCentury #Antiphonal commissioned for the monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza in 1475, shows a song for #StStephensDay.
Boston Public LIbrary

#earlymusic #renaissance #renaissancesky #otd #onthisday
December 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 24
Robert #Herrick: Ceremonies for #ChristmasEve.
A #17thCentury song describing #Christmas traditions, including bringing in the #Yulelog & making #mincepies
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZyM...
#earlymusic #earlymodern
Passamezzo - Robert Herrick: Ceremonies for Christmasse
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 23
#Angels playing #violin and #lute.
Details from a painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds by #GiovanniBattistaCrespi, who was born #onthisday in 1573

#earlymusic #earlymodern #otd #onthisdayinhistory #angelmusicians #iconography #historyofart
December 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
Bag, European make, 17th Century. Canvas with embroidery. The flower stems are raised. (British Museum)
December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 22
A marginal musician playing the #shawm.
Detail from a page from a #15thCentury #Gradual, showing the #AdorationoftheMagi.
Florence, #BibliotecaMediceaLaurenziana, Edili 150

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #renaissance
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 20
As I out rode this enderes night - a #16thCentury English #carol from the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the #Coventry #MysteryPlays.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA...

#christmascarol #earlymusic #tudor #tudors #earlymodern #coventrycarol #soprano
Passamezzo: As I out rode this enderes night
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 19
As on the Night: Orlando #Gibbons' setting of George Wither's #hymn 46, 'For #Christmas' from The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLQ...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #christmasmusic #christmascarol #17thCentury #earlymodernsky #soprano
Orlando Gibbons: As on the Night
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Passamezzo Advent Calendar: Day 18
One for Throwback Thursday -filming Britain's Christmas Story with Gareth Malone in 2019

#earlymusic #christmasprogramme #adventcalendar #musicianlife
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 16
This Enders Night
An anonymous early #Tudor #lullaby #carol.

Emily Atkinson: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Tamsin Lewis: alto

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

#earlymusicensemble #earlymusic #earlymodern #tudors #christmascarol
This Enders Night - a Tudor Christmas Carol
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 15
Today's #marginal musician is playing #bagpipes.
Detail from a page showing the Annunciation to the Shepherds in a #15thCentury #bookofhours.
MS Lat 253. Houghton Library, Harvard University, c1490

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bagpipe
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Yesterday's office.
So lovely to play Old #Christmas Returned for Canterbury Music Club yesterday.
Great venue, lovely audience, and wonderful hospitality!

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #christmasconcert
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Lovely
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 12
#Christmas Cheer a country #dance from #Playford 's #DancingMaster, 1703
Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: #violin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sARu...

#earlymusic #christmasmusic
Christmas Cheer
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 11
One for #ThrowbackThursday:
Playing the World Turn'd Upside Down on top of a bus for #HowardGoodall 's The Truth About #Christmas #Carols in 2009

#londonbus #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #christmascarols #broadsideballads
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
A seasonal object. A Woman's coif, made in Britain, c. 1590-1610 Linen embroidered with blackwork, silver-gilt threads, with a design of holly sprigs
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Passamezo #AdventCalendar: Day 10
A late #16thCentury French book of #carols
Philibert Bugnyon's 'Noel nouveau, fort plaisant & recreatif'
BNF
#earlymusic #woodcutwednesday #earlymodern #christmascarols #noels
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 9

Thomas Campion's #lutesong 'Now #Winter Nights Enlarge'.
From The Third Booke of Ayres, 1617

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXg7...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #youtube #17thCentury
Thomas Campion: Now Winter Nights Enlarge
YouTube video by Passamezzo
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December 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Passamezzo #AdventCalendar: Day 8

Marginal #musician playing #pipeandtabor. Detail from a page showing the #Nativity, in a #15thCentury French #BookofHours.
From the Spitz Hours, c1420.
#GettyMuseum ms 57 (94.ML.26)

#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM