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  1. The Czech educator Jan Amos Comenius was born on this day in 1592.
    These images show a selection of musical instruments, with their names and properties in English and #Latin, in a 1659 translation of Comenius' illustrated book Orbis Pictus (the world in pictures), one of the first illustrated textbooks for children.

    #otd
    #onthisday
    #onthisdayinhistory
    #earlymusic
    #orbispictus
    #comenius
    #earlymodern
    #musicalinstruments
    #lute
    #trumpet
    #bagpipe
    #harp
    #drum
    #psaltery
    #virginals
    #cittern
    #flute
    #shawm
    #cornet
    #recorder
    #organ
    #iconography
    @earlymodern
    @earlymusic
    @histodons
    @histodon
    #history
    #historyofeducation
    #illustration
    #histodon
    #histodons
    #textbook

  2. Old Christmas Returned: #Christmas celebrated, banned & restored in #17thCentury Britain.

    A selection of #carols, #songs, #rounds, #wassails, #ballads from the time of the #EnglishCivilWar, the #Interregnum & the #Restoration.

    Eleanor Cramer: #soprano, bass #viol
    Richard de Winter: #tenor
    Robin Jeffrey: #lute #cittern #guitar
    Alison Kinder: #viols, #recorders
    Tamsin Lewis: #renaissance #violin, #alto, viols
    Richard Mackenzie: lute #theorbo
    Peter WIllcock: #bass

    passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/

    #christmaspresent #christmasgift #earlymusic @earlymusic