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Tamsin Lewis

@passamezzo.bsky.social

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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.

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 1d

#Throwbackthursday
In Long Melford in 2009

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

You should be making merry with Jan Massys of Antwerp and his elegant friends, who are celebrating his day.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 6d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 3d

#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

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#earlymodern #materialculture #greensleevesproject #tudor #tudors #historicaldress

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 7d

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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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 7d

It's Bandcamp Friday, and we've got lots of music for you to listen to!
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#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #recordingartist #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama

Passamezzo

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire. Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizab...

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 8d

Throwback Thursday.
Filming Lady Mary Wroth's play, 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst in 2022

@elartpro.bsky.social

#throwbackthursday #musicianlife #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernwomen

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 8d

I have ten of these PHYSICS FOR CATS pins to give away! Share the post below👇 for a chance to win one. (UK only: you can share from anywhere but I can't send you a pin).

A pin badge depicting a black cat floating in a black void orbited by colourful particles.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 10d

TIL that people actually did call each other 'varlet' in the past and also that 'loggerhead' was once an insult

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 11d

Today's marginal #musician is playing the #bagpipes.
From a #15thCentury history of #Troy.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Pal.Lat.1962

#marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript #earlymusic

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations

Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 15d

One for #ThrowbackThursday:
Singing at Parham House, c2017

#throwbackthursdays #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #heritage #history #historicalinterpretion #historythroughmusic #earlymodern

Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you!

Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 18d

Today's #marginal #musician is a #fool playing #pipeandtabor.
From a #15thCentury #bookofhours, c1440-1460
Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 186

#MarginaliaMonday
#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #illuminatedmanuscript

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 18d

Oliver is in the bath again

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 23d

#lisleletters #otd 1536
The #silkwoman Eleanor Whalley sends a gift to Lady LIsle:
it may please you to receive of this bearer, the Master of Barthelot’s ship of Calais, one hundred of #quinces, beseeching your ladyship to accept them a’worth at this present
#earlymodern #tudor #tudors #quince

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 24d

Fantastic wallpaper in our bathroom at Hever

Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 24d

Lovely to play #Tudor music at Hever last Saturday

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #Hever #Tudors

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 25d

Todays #marginal #musician is playing the #organ.
From the Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, c1466-77
Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobon. 1856

#organist #15thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #bookofhours #renaissance #marginalia #earlymusic

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 26d

Hi Meredith, I've worked on and recorded music books and the separatists

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 27d

Today is #WorldChocolateDay!
Here is a #17thcentury #ballad extolling the virtues of #chocolate, printed in the year that the first chocolate (and coffee) house was opened in London....
From Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, 1652.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KJ...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #otd

In Praise of Chocolate

YouTube video by Passamezzo

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you!