Today's #marginalmusician is playing the #lute. Possibly managing to wake the dead? From the Hours of Charles V, c1500. BNE VITR/24/3 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #iconography #earlymodern

Some bonus #marginalmusicians for #UncommonInstrumentAwarenessDay. These half human creatures are all blowing or bowing the #bellows. Drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. #earlymusic #marginalia #medieval

Today's #marginalmusician is a #cat (I think) playing the #trumpet. Drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. @metmuseum.org #marginalia #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic

#ThrowbackThursday: Playing the #harp for a #Tudor event at #ElthamPalace, c2006 #throwbackthursday #musicianlife #musicianslife #earlymusic #tudor #tudors

Today's marginal musicians are a selection of #bagpipers drawn by Jean Pucelle, in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, c1324-28. @metmuseum.org #MarginaliaMonday #marginalia #ManuscriptMonday #earlymusic #medievalmusic #medieval #bagpipe

#Throwbackthursday Singing for a dance in Becoming Elizabeth (Starz) in 2021/2 #earlymusic #musicianlife #tudor #tudors

Me with a music book in 1553 at #Tudor Midsummer at @kentwellhall.bsky.social Photograph by Andy Longhurst #kentwell #kentwellhall #tudors

Today's #marginalmusicians are a both hybrid creatures (one part #fool) playing #bagpipe and #tabor. From a #15thCentury book of hours BNF NAL 3115 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #iconography #jester

#ThrowbackThursday: Singing #ballads about working conditions in #17thCentury Britain at the University of Exeter for their Forms of Labour #Conference in 2022. #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #labour #musicianlife #musicianslife

Today's #marginalmusician is another musical #dragon. Playing the #shawm this time. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours. University of Leeds, Brotherton Collection, MS1, c1424 #marginaliamonday #ManuscriptMonday #earlymusic #wyvern

#throwbackthursday Playing at the Museum of the Order of St John in 2015 #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #fairies #musicianlife #musicianslife #elizabethan

Really lovely to bring the #greensleevesproject to @chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday with @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social. We also played a bit of pre-show music for @callumcoates.bsky.social and Emma Bown's cue-scripted production of Macbeth. Grateful that it was cooler than the previous days

Today's #marginalmusicians are #dragons! I think they are playing something like a #cittern or #citole, but am not sure. From a #15thCentury book of hours. Morgan M358 c1447 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #dragon

#ThrowbackThursday Playing in Balshaw's Jigge in 2023. A #17thCentury musical play, discovered by the amazing @wallyberry.bsky.social and performed for the first time in 350 years. An audience member sketched us on her programme. #earlymusic #musicianlife #earlymodern #earlymoderndrama #ballad #jig

Today's #marginalmusicians are playing the hunting horn. Sketches in an unfinished #15thcentury #bookofhours. Morgan Library M358, c1447 #earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday

#ThrowbackThursday: From a photoshoot with Eric Richmond, c2015 Masks by Peter Kenny

Today's #marginalmusicians are a bagpiping #ape sitting on a drum, a trumpeter, and a couple of dancing apes. From a #15thCentury manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF Fr 2643 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday

#ThrowbackThursday. Recording the Meditations album in 2015 passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/shore-... #earlymusic #worldmusic #intercultural #anglomoroccan #interfaith #earlymusicensemble #musicianlife #musicianslife #recordingartist #taize #sufi #harp

Today's #marginalmusicians include half human creatures playing #lute & #harp, and a couple of apes - one sitting on a #drum, one playing the #psaltery. From a #15thCentury #manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF 2643 #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #renaissance #iconography

Yesterday's office. A wonderful first night for our new programme: Connections - #earlymusic and traditional #song from three faiths. #concert #interfaith #earlymusicensemble #jewish #christian #moslem #intercultural #musicforpeace It's a great programme - do come to our other concerts if you can.

Poster for our concert in Cambridge this Sunday. Do join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection... #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #musicforpeace #interfaith #intercultural

Connections - a #fusion of #Jewish, #Christian & #Moslem sacred music, mixing #17thCentury sung prayers, (inc works by Rossi, Goudimel, Campion & Ali Ufki) #Moroccan #Sufi chant, #Taize chant, #Syrian Maquam & #Hebrew song. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connection... #earlymusic #musicforpeace #worldmusic

A #marginalmusician for the month of #May 🙂 Detail of a #lutenist from a late #15thCentury Flemish #bookofhours Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 28345 #earlymusic #lute #mayday #monthofmay #illuminatedmanuscript

In the Merry Month of May #earlymodern British #music, words & #song for #May www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product/merr... #seasonalcustoms #Maying #mayday #Mayqueen #maypoles #RobinHood #hobbyhorse #earlymusic #tudor #tudors #16thCentury #17thCentury

Buff Coat, an anonymous #17thCentury #countrydance for #internationaldanceday From Playford's Dancing Master, 1670. #earlydance #historicaldance #dancingmaster #baroque

Today's #marginalmusicians are a couple of strange female creatures playing #lute & #harp, also a #monkey playing the #fiddle. From the Prayer Book of #CharlestheBold, c1471 Getty Ms. 37 (89.ML.35) #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #15thCentury

Lovely photo in yesterday's @thetimes.com showing Passamezzo playing at Greenwich. Slightly unfortunate juxtaposition of headline to picture, given that we were playing at the Old Royal Naval College... #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #tudortuesday #tudor #tudors #heritageinterpretation

Such a lovely weekend, playing #tudor #music in the Painted Hall at Greenwich as part of their #tudortakeover. #earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #tudors #henryviii #anneboleyn

Today's marginal musicians are playing #shawm and #nakers. From a #14thCentury Psalterium Romanum. BNF Latin 772 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #psalter

Today's #marginalmusicians include a very strange creature playing the #psaltery - part #porcupine, part bird, part something else? Also a #bagpiper. From a #15thCentury Flemish #bookofhours, c1475 Fitzwilliam ms 268 #ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #bagpipes