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Passamezzo

@Passamezzo@mastodon.social

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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#plague
Also #cats #bridge

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoWS8nEuW8A&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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Two with a , and a playing the .

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

Bodleian Library MS. Autogr. g. 3

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A from the Capirola Lute Book, c1519 for @earlymusic
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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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A English setting of 127, described as being suitable for or a .
From La Scala Santa Hugh Hare, Baron Coleraine, 1670.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ3oi43J_Q&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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Some for :
Three anonymous wintry melodies from & Britain. In the fields in frost & snow - On the cold ground - Long cold nights.
Alison Kinder: bass ,
Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Richard de Winter: drum
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance
Richard Mackenzie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epun4iixbe4&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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It's bitterly cold today, so 17th Century broadside ballad describing how to Drive the Cold Winter Away seems appropriate...

Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Richard de Winter: baritone
Alison Kinder: recorders
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance violin
Richard Mackenzie: lute

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

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Today is Twelfth Eve - the day before the Twelfth Day of Christmas, so here is Twelfth Eve from Playford's Dancing Master, 1701.
Alison Kinder: recorder
Eleanor Cramer: bass viol
Christopher Goodwin: lute
Peter Luke Kenny: drum
Tamsin Lewis: violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4m5sHosczI&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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@jonberger @histodons @earlymusic How wonderful! Will look out for it :)

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Happy New Year! May 2024 bring good things.

Here is a for - a describing gifts given by lovers on New Year's Day.
From A Cabinet of choice jewels, 1688.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSH4KVtX8y0&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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A Tudor Christmas Carol
As I outrode this enderes night.
From the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, one of the Coventry Mystery Plays.
[The better known 'Coventry Carol', "lully lulla, thou little tiny child" comes from the same source.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39AA6kFmpWY&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Something for
Detail from an Italian choirbook showing an illuminated letter C with playing the psaltery, with other female musicians playing & .
V&A Museum

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Some Christmas Music to listen to.

To Shorten Winter's Sadness: 16th & 17th Century English Music and Song for and .

Available to download, or as a CD.

https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/to-shorten-winters-sadness-2


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One for the culinary historians:

Alfonso Ceccarelli’s book on truffles, 'Opusculum de tuberibus' was printed on this day in 1564.






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Bravely deckt, come forth bright day.

A song for the 5th of November

from Thomas Campion's Two Bookes of Ayres, 1613


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1 November is All Saints' Day, so here's our lockdown recording of Psalm 133 from La Scala Santa, 1670, described as being suitable for St George's Day or All Saints' Day.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: viols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9WLxpZO7tY&ab_channel=Passamezzo


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#ThrowbackThursday
Singing for a scene in #BecomingElizabeth a couple of years ago.
At Berkeley Castle with 4 musicians and lots of dancers.
A lovely production to work on.
#tudor #tudors #elizabethi #musicianslife #costumedrama #historicaldrama #earlymusic #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon

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