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Tamsin Lewis

Musician, historian and mother.
Early music specialist and historical consultant for film, television, radio and theatre.
FRHistS.
Director of early music ensemble, Passamezzo.










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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-11-14

Old Returned: Christmas celebrated, banned & restored in England

Available for or as a from

passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-11-08

Richard Edwards: Amantium Irae - In going to my naked bed

A song about love, friendship, and reconciliation.

youtube.com/watch?v=No84t10OYhU

Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-10-04

A song from our recording session in February:

Who liveth so merry - an anonymous describing a variety of .

youtube.com/watch?v=-NxO2FDztk

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-09-23

My Lady Winkfield's Round
An anonymous early dance melody from the Court of .
From BL Royal Appendix 58

youtube.com/watch?v=E25nTuILcP

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-08-02

The west-country delight

A , describing how parishes would pay for a piper to play on Sundays and other holidays

"from Whitsuntide, till latter day;

On sabbath days and holy-days, after evening prayer comes he"

youtube.com/watch?v=V6-L__UXQko

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-07-29

(singing and playing , and ) in the Garden of False Learning.

Needlepoint hanging (French 1550-1580) based on a woodcut by David Kandel, 1547.

metmuseum.org/art/collection/s

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-07-26

Today's is Begone, sweet night, an anonymous from the early .

Eleanor Cramer:
Christopher Goodwin:
Alison Kinder: bass

youtube.com/watch?v=KeKzuv4dA7o


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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-06-06


Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten sail/Maquam Nahawend
In concert with Ensemble Mogador Chant et Musique Soufie in 2011
youtube.com/watch?v=46ZYXdyp-i

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-06-03

An article about providing Tudor music for Firebrand, and teaching Jude Law to play the virginals.

continuoconnect.com/features/f


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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-05-31

The White Falcon: a ballad sung during Anne Boleyn's coronation procession through the City of London on 31 May 1533.

youtube.com/watch?v=e4iBn9uRu00

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-05-17

Michael Cavendish: Zephyrus Brings the Time

From 14 Ayres in Tabletorie to the , 1598.

Eleanor Cramer:

Christopher Goodwin: Lute

Alison Kinder: Bass Viol

Tamsin Lewis:

youtube.com/watch?v=YypW-qKngJA

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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-05-16

For :
Playing the by the in the , c2021.
A lovely gig, and the acoustic was excellent...
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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-05-03

Ten of the Clocke

One of a series of 12 readings describing the minutiae of daily life in Britain.

From Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks, 1626.

youtube.com/watch?v=QoWS8nEuW8


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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-04-29

Two with a , and a playing the .

From the Album amicorum of G.F. Speid, Bavaria, c1631-1633

Bodleian Library MS. Autogr. g. 3

Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-04-09

A from the Capirola Lute Book, c1519 for @earlymusic
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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-04-04

Nellie the elephant, played on the archlute.
(We take our rehearsals very seriously...)

youtube.com/watch?v=LNIH4imLGv

Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-03-15

Today is , so here's a video we recorded last January.

The Pleasant Slumber: an anonymous 17th Century English dance from Apollo's Banquet, 1670

Alison Kinder: bass viol
Robin Jeffrey: lute

youtube.com/watch?v=pVfmd_AWAF

Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-03-08

Detail from a fresco for the month of March, c1470, by Francesco del Cossa in the Palazzo Schifanoia (Ferrara), showing a company of women weaving & sewing.









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Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-02-23

Thomas Ford: 'There is a lady sweet and kind' & 'Since first I saw your face'.

From Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, 1607.

Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: tenor viol
Tamsin Lewis: treble viol
Lynda Sayce: tenor viol

youtube.com/watch?v=E2k6qJIlOJ

Tamsin LewisPassamezzo
2024-02-09

A English setting of 127, described as being suitable for or a .
From La Scala Santa Hugh Hare, Baron Coleraine, 1670.
youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ3oi43J_
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