@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.
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
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
It's Bandcamp Friday, and we've got lots of music for you to listen to!
passamezzo.bandcamp.com
#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #recordingartist #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama
Throwback Thursday.
Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022
@elartpro.bsky.social
#throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
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).
02.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 242 🔁 132 💬 11 📌 10
TIL that people actually did call each other 'varlet' in the past and also that 'loggerhead' was once an insult
30.09.2025 10:01 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Today's marginal #musician is playing the #bagpipes.
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic
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
Congratulations
25.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One for #ThrowbackThursday:
Singing at Parham House, c2017
#throwbackthursdays #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #heritage #history #historicalinterpretion #historythroughmusic #earlymodern
Thank you!
23.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing.
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!
#earlymusic #earlymodern
Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460
Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186
#MarginaliaMonday
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript
Oliver is in the bath again
22.09.2025 06:35 — 👍 134 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0#lisleletters #otd 1536
The #silkwoman Eleanor Whalley sends a gift to Lady LIsle:
it may please you to receive of this bearer, the Master of Barthelot’s ship of Calais, one hundred of #quinces, beseeching your ladyship to accept them a’worth at this present
#earlymodern #tudor #tudors #quince
Fantastic wallpaper in our bathroom at Hever
16.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lovely to play #Tudor music at Hever last Saturday
#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #Hever #Tudors
Todays #marginal #musician is playing the #organ.
From the Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c1466-77
Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobon. 1856
#organist #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bookofhours #renaissance #marginalia #earlymusic
Hi Meredith, I've worked on and recorded music books and the separatists
14.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today is #WorldChocolateDay!
Here is a #17thcentury #ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate, printed in the year that the first chocolate (and coffee) house was opened in London....
From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #otd
Thank you!
10.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Do not expect to hear of all your good at once" a song and chorus from Ben Jonson's #Masque of Augurs (1622). Music by Nicholas Lanier, who was born #onthisday 1588.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMW...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #benjonson #courtmasque
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
Yesterday's office.
So lovely to be back at Athelhampton
#ThrowbackThursday:
Playing #Tudor music at the #NationalPortraitGallery in 2024.
For a Youth Late event, part of the 6 Queens exhibition.
#tudors #henryviii #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #
Wondering if it's plainsong as such, or something like the verses and responses (with their bit of chant before) that you get in services. There are certainly 16thC English settings.
04.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A lovely entry: George Yonge, musician, given a gift of over £6 at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury (!) for teaching students at the Merchant Taylors' school plainsong for 30 years
@passamezzo.bsky.social @katherineschof8.bsky.social
Throwback Thursday:
Teaching Danny Dyer to play the lute.
(Filming Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family at Ingatestone c2018/9
#earlymusic #throwbackthursday
Not sure what today's #marginal #musician is playing. I'd have said #TrombaMarina, but it has more than one string and is plucked. Also, he looks a bit like a #snowman...
From Pierre Michault, Doctrinal du temps présent et Danse aux aveugles, 1475-80
BNF Français 1654
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday
A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2...
#earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad
