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Tamsin Lewis

Musician, historian and mother.
FRHistS. Early modernist. Author of a number of books on music and society in early modern Britain.
Director of early music ensemble, Passamezzo.
Early music specialist and historical consultant for film, television, radio and theatre.
#histodon
#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#broadsideballads
#tudors
#iconography
#16thCentury
#17thCentury
#interdisciplinary
#seasonality
#jacobean
#tudor
#plague
#folklore
#renaissance
Also #cats #bridge

A couple of #playingcards with #musical details from Le Jeu de la #Mythologie (the Game of #mythology ) 1644.
By Stefano della Bella (d #otd 1664.)
#Pallas #Athene and the 9 muses
and
#Amphion playing the #violin

#onthisdayinhistory #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern @earlymodern #greekmyths #classicalmythology #playingcard #game #history #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury

The #CoronationDay
From The #Dancing Master, Henry #Playford, 1698
Written for the #coronation of King William III and Queen Mary II in 1689
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFWp_Cbx0U&ab_channel=Passamezzo
#youtube
#youtubevideo
#classicalmusic
#baroquemusic

Details from the #Venice #Hagaddah (1609) showing some traditions for #Pesach

#earlymodern
#sephardi
#sephardic
#passover
#judaica
#seventeenthcentury
#17thCentury
#pesach2023
#chagpesachsameach
#histodon #histodons
#historical
@earlymodern
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@histodons

Elizabeth I died #otd, 1603.
This #ballad mourning her death was allegedly written by one of her maids of honour.
From A crovvne garland of goulden roses, 1612

#song
#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#Tudor
#Tudors
#ElizabethTudor
#QueenElizabethI
#elizabethi
#mourningpoetry
#balladmiscellany
#onthisdayinhistory
#onthisday
#embroidery
#maidofhonour
#histodon
#histodons
@histodon
@earlymusic
@earlymodern
#history #historical #elizabethanengland

Domestic musicmaking in #Elizabethan England: a consort of #viols playing around a table.

Detail from the anonymous portrait of Sir Henry Unton, who died #onthisday in 1596.

#earlymusic
#Tudor
#Tudors
#earlymodern
#violadagamba
#musicinart
#otd
#onthisdayinhistory
#sixteenthcentury
#16thCentury
#16thCenturyfashion
#consortofviols
#violconsort
#elizabethanmusic
#partbooks
#musicmaking
#domesticmusic
#history #historical #histodon #histodons
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@earlymodern
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@vance_maverick They are g chefs so should read like treble clefs

For #StPatrickDay, here are some #18thCentury #Irish #dances from The Dancing Master, showing #sheetmusic & #choreography:
The Irish Ground, 1701
The Irish Round, 1710
The Irish Howle, 1726
#otd #onthisday #earlymusic #historicaldance #earlydance #StPatricksDay
#eighteenthcentury
#eighteenthcenturymusic
#histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon

It's #Purim today, so her's a page from the #Ferrara Book of #Esther.
Moshe ben Avraham Pascarol, 1617
#otd #onthisday #manuscriptmonday #manuscriptmondays #manuscript #scroll #judaica #judaicaart #earlymodern #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #illuminatedmanuscript #sephardi #sephardic #chagpurimsameach #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

A description of the month of #March in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUXIkbYJyg&ab_channel=Passamezzo

@earlymodern @histodon @histodons #histodon #histodons #socialhistory #TrevelyonMiscellany #commonplacebook #history #17thCentury #17thcenturyhistory #SeventeenthCentury #LaboursoftheMonths #NicholasBreton

Orlando #Gibbons: A #song for the first day of #Lent, 1623

Eleanor Cramer: #Soprano
Richard De Winter: #Bass
Robin Jeffrey: #Lute
Alison Kinder: #Bass Viol
Tamsin Lewis: #Alto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4A-j14JMU&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #OrlandoGibbons @earlymusic @earlymodern @histodon @histodons #earlymodern #histodon #histodons #AshWednesday #otd #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #GeorgeWither #Lenten #FirstDayofLent #17thCentury #17thCenturyMusic #SeventeenthCentury #Jacobean #musicians #singers #SacredMusic

Tamsin Lewis boosted:

:
A #song from William Hawkins' #play Apollo's Shroving, which was first performed by schoolchildren in #Hadleigh in #Suffolk on #ShroveTuesday 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #bass
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6Cf4zuZoA&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#EarlyMusic #EarlyModern #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
#pancakeday #history #music #CharlesI #17thCentury #earlymoderndrama

@linuxgnome Thank you. That seems like a good idea.

#histodons I seem to have gone down a #custard rabbit hole. I've found 3 #earlymodern sources saying that the Lord Mayor's Feast included a custard with 24 corners.

Does anyone know why there were 24?

#foodhistory #historicfood #twitterstorians #histodon #cook #cookery #cooking #LordMayor #LordMayorofLondon #custardpie #Tudors #Stuarts #16thCentury #17thCentury #CivicHistory #LondonHistory #LondonHistorians #history @histodons @histodon @earlymodern

A Carrol for Valentines-Day
A #17thCentury #ballad #carol for #valentinesday describing the #gifts & #traditions of the day.
From A Cabinet of choice jewels, 1688

#earlymodern @earlymodern #earlymusic @earlymusic #materialculture
#histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons #seventeenthcentury #history #historical #valentine #valentines #valentinesdaymusic #valentinesdaysong #valentinesdaysongs #valentineday #otd #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #valentinesdayhistory #happyvalentinesday

Looking for a #historical #ValentinesDayGift?

Try my book
Good Morrow #Valentine
Three #SeventeenthCentury #Songs and a #Dance for #ValentinesDay, along with descriptions of the customs of the day.

From Rondo Publishing
https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/good-morrow-valentine/

#history #17thCentury #earlymusic #earlymodern #folklore #ballads #Playford #historian #historians #music #sheetmusic #musicpublishing #socialhistory #song #histodons @histodons @earlymodern
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@folklore

#Candlemas (2 February) is the official end of Christmas.
This anonymous #17thCentury #ballad #carol laments the end of the Christmas season, with its good food and company, and looks ahead to a year of hard work on the land, and to the weeks of fasting that will come with #Lent.
From New #Christmas #Carols, c1661.