About

Musician, historian and mother.

Early music specialist and historical consultant for film, television, radio and theatre.

Director of early music ensemble, Passamezzo.

FRHistS.

Associate lecturer at the Courtauld Instutute

 

Education

I studied violin at the Florence Conservatoire before reading Classics and Italian at Oxford.

Publications

Passamezzo Editions with Rondo Publishing: https://www.rondopublishing.co.uk/product-category/tamsin-lewis-passamezzo-editions/

2021 St George for England – 17th Century songs for St George and his day.

2020 Lord have mercy upon us – Songs and hymns in time of plague.

2020 They that in ships unto the sea down go – Music for the Mayflower

2019 We’ll wed and we’ll bed – More wedding music in early modern England

2018 The Happy Couple – Wedding Music in Early Modern England

2017 Good Morrow Valentine – Three Seventeenth Century Songs, & a Dance for Valentine’s Day

2016 London Mourning in Ashes – 17th Century Ballads commemorating the Great Fire

2016 In the Merry Month of May –  Music, words and song for May

2015 In Flower of April Springing – Seasonal songs from 17th Century England

2014 This Merry Pleasant Spring  Music, words and song for Spring

2013 The White Falcon  Reconstruction of a song from Anne Boleyn’s coronation

2013 Old Christmas Returned More music, words and song for Christmas

2013 In Peascod Time Music, words and song for Summer and Harvest

2012 To Shorten Winter’s Sadness Music, words and song for Christmas and Winter

2008 The Cries of London

For The Consort Early Music Journal

https://www.dolmetsch.com/dolmetschconsort.htm

2021 Lord Have mercy upon us: Early modern English music in time of plague. Vol 77

2020 They that in Ships unto the Sea down goe: Music on the Mayflower. Vol 76

 

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