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.
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#earlymodern #onlinetalk #greensleeves #materialculture #earlymusic #interdisciplinary
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#earlymodern #onlinetalk #greensleeves #materialculture #earlymusic #interdisciplinary
From Getty Ms. Ludwig IX 7 (83.ML.103)
Music: In Peascod Time from our CD passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/in-pea...
#earlymusic #marginalia #manuscriptmonday #angels #15thC #harp
From Getty Ms. Ludwig IX 7 (83.ML.103)
Music: In Peascod Time from our CD passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/in-pea...
#earlymusic #marginalia #manuscriptmonday #angels #15thC #harp
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
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
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
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
From #Boccaccio's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, c 1413-1415
#GettyMuseum
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #medievalmanuscript
From #Boccaccio's Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, c 1413-1415
#GettyMuseum
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #medievalmanuscript
The sheep will be appearing in concerts in Watford and Canterbury later this year 🙂
#earlymusic #concerts #christmasconcert #earlymodern #carols #christmascarols #englishcivilwar #17thc
The sheep will be appearing in concerts in Watford and Canterbury later this year 🙂
#earlymusic #concerts #christmasconcert #earlymodern #carols #christmascarols #englishcivilwar #17thc
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
More (not blue) angels in the main image, #singing & playing #lute & #recorder.
Coetivy Hours, c1443-5
Chester Beatty W 082
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illumination
More (not blue) angels in the main image, #singing & playing #lute & #recorder.
Coetivy Hours, c1443-5
Chester Beatty W 082
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illumination
From a #15thCentury #Italian #illuminated #gradual.
Sotheby's www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...
#otd #onthisday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #choirbook #gradual #illuminatedinitials #renaissancesky #renaissance #renaissanceart
From a #15thCentury #Italian #illuminated #gradual.
Sotheby's www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...
#otd #onthisday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #choirbook #gradual #illuminatedinitials #renaissancesky #renaissance #renaissanceart
greensleevesproject.uk
#exhibition #historicaldress #materialculture #tudortuesday
greensleevesproject.uk
#exhibition #historicaldress #materialculture #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
'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
Playing Elizabethan music at Athelhampton House, 2023
#ThrowbackThursday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble
#musicianlife #historichouse #concert
Playing Elizabethan music at Athelhampton House, 2023
#ThrowbackThursday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble
#musicianlife #historichouse #concert
An instrumental border, showing #viol, #lute, #organ, music books, along with 7 wind instruments in a leather case.
#earlymusic #iconography
An instrumental border, showing #viol, #lute, #organ, music books, along with 7 wind instruments in a leather case.
#earlymusic #iconography
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
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
In Long Melford in 2009
#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife
In Long Melford in 2009
#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife
'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
'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
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
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
Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022
@elartpro.bsky.social
#throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022
@elartpro.bsky.social
#throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962
#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic
MS M.1004
#earlymusic #otd #onthisday #illuminatedmanuscript #drum #shawm #15thCentury #bookofhours #rabbit #marginalia
MS M.1004
#earlymusic #otd #onthisday #illuminatedmanuscript #drum #shawm #15thCentury #bookofhours #rabbit #marginalia
Singing at Parham House, c2017
#throwbackthursdays #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #heritage #history #historicalinterpretion #historythroughmusic #earlymodern
Singing at Parham House, c2017
#throwbackthursdays #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #heritage #history #historicalinterpretion #historythroughmusic #earlymodern
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!
#earlymusic #earlymodern
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!
#earlymusic #earlymodern