Tamsin Lewis · @Passamezzo
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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.
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Tamsin Lewis · @passamezzo
227 followers · 53 posts · Server hcommons.social6 January is the feast of the #Epiphany, so here is Vidimus Stellam, an early #17thCentury #motet for the day by William #Byrd, from #Gradualia, 1607.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol
Vidimus stellam in Orientem, et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.
We have seen a star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.
Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Adoration of the Magi, c1481 (Uffizi Galleries)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4s&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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