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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.
Really looking forward to talking about the #GreensleevesProject to the Embroiderers' Association of Canada on 7 December.
eac-acb.ca/event/speake...

#earlymodern #onlinetalk #greensleeves #materialculture #earlymusic #interdisciplinary
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Today's #marginalmusicians (some angelic, some human, some just strange) come from the Llangattock #bookofHours, c1450-60
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
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#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
#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
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
#Greensleeves' girdle and gown will will be on display, at Athelhampton House along with her other gifts, from 27 October, at a new exhibition curated by Rachel Jardine, and supported by @antiquaries.bsky.social
greensleevesproject.uk

#exhibition #historicaldress #materialculture #tudortuesday
October 21, 2025 at 8:20 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
Throwback Thursday:
Playing Elizabethan music at Athelhampton House, 2023

#ThrowbackThursday #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble
#musicianlife #historichouse #concert
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Another detail from the top of the same page:
An instrumental border, showing #viol, #lute, #organ, music books, along with 7 wind instruments in a leather case.
#earlymusic #iconography
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
#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
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
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM