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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.
#ThrowbackThursday:
This time last year, we had our first fitting for the #GreensleevesProject. Here is Oliver looking at the choice of trim for Lady #Greensleeves' gown.

#throwbackthursdays #catsofgreensleeves #materialculture #costumefitting

greensleevesproject.uk

@ninyamikhaila.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thy music still to play and sing
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

Come and see these clothes, and learn about the #GreensleevesProject at the Medieval Dress and Textile Society #conference on Saturday
www.medats.org.uk/events/green...

#TudorTuesday #earlymusic #materialculture #earlymodern #tudor
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Passamezzo sheep has come out of the cupboard. It must be time to start rehearsing our Christmas programme...
The sheep will be appearing in concerts in Watford and Canterbury later this year 🙂

#earlymusic #concerts #christmasconcert #earlymodern #carols #christmascarols #englishcivilwar #17thc
November 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Trying to find out more about lighting for #earlymodern night/evening entertainments - masques and indoor and outdoor events. Can anyone help?
#earlymodernsky #renaissancesky #masque
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#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
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
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
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
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
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
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
Reposted by Tamsin Lewis
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