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Musicologist and Associate Teaching Professor at the University of Stavanger (he/him) | Hobby etymologist and aelurophile. Opines too much about eighteenth-century music, most often about Haydn, Wanhal, Dittersdorf or Pleyel.
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Despite having read the words 'Adagio cantabile' thousands of times, I last night misread an indication in a manuscript as 'Adagio cannibale'. I do not know what this says about me, but if anybody wants to write a composition with that name, it is now up for grabs!

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In 1763, a ticket for the Académie du Musique during Lent in #Vienna cost up to 1 Gulden 8 Kreuzer -the equivalent of 14.9 liters of wine or 29.8 kg of bread! 🍷🍞 Thanks to the #WienWiki purchasing power calculator,we can put these prices into perspective. #Musicology #MusicHistory shorturl.at/nox1A

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Alban Berg was born on February 9 1885. His Violin Concerto shows just how beautiful atonal music can be. The tonality hidden within the serialist approach is headspinningly lovely. What are your favourite recordings of Berg’s Violin Concerto?

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Calling music(ology) BlueSky! Are there any books that discuss repetition in music as an aesthetic phenomenon? (Any angle thereunder would be interesting.)

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

submitted 18 days ago • 970 comments

I am currently working on the new digital catalogue of Wanhal's works, and realize that I have ingrained the old Weinmann numbers so thoroughly that I am probably going to be the last person standing who works from them *rather than from the numbering system I made myself*!

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Look at the waves of redundancies announced in just the last few days. If you work in UK Higher Education, now is the time to join a union (if you're not a member already).

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#A-Haydn-A-Day chases darkness away! Day 70: Symphony No. 73 "La Chasse" What's in a name? The finale is recycled from Haydn's overture to the opera La fedeltà premiata, which features Diana, goddess of the hunt. Its galloping 6/8 rhythms and ringing horn calls were common depictions of hunting.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

#A-Haydn-A-Day Day 69: Symphony No. 88 ‘I want my Ninth Symphony to sound like this!’ - Johannes Brahms (allegedly) after hearing this symphony's slow movement. Watch Lenny conduct the finale a second time, using only his face. A great bit of showmanship for the benefit of the cameras alone.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

With Nvidia stock in decline, it’s finally time for 3dfx to make a comeback

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I don't think I have many Norwegian readers here, but if anybody should chance across this, I am holding a presentation on the role of Ovid's Metamorphoses in music. I can promise Monteverdi, Dittersdorf and Haydn! barokkfest.no/komponert-ov...

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DO YOU EVER LOOK AT CATS AND WONDER HEY WHY DOES THIS LITTLE ANIMAL LIVE IN MY HOUSE? WHAT IS IT DOING? HOW DID I GET SO LUCKY?

submitted 30 days ago • 597 comments

WHAT is up with this guy’s *unique* compositions?! Johann Albrechtsberger (1736-1809) Concerto for mouth- or Jew’s harp, mandora & orchestra. He went to school w/Haydn’s bro Michael, taught Beethoven, buddy of Mozart, rep as a theorist attracted a bevy of later-famous students. #ClassicalMusic

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#classicalmusic #MyDailyDose #Haydn In his own old age (1804) Haydn published "6 introductions & fugues for string quartet, taken from Werner’s oratorios". The title page said the works were "edited by his successor J. Haydn out of particular esteem towards the famous master." Here they are! 💙

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Front & back of Duccio’s 1308-1311 Maesta Altarpiece Siena which was scattered to the ends of the earth (!)

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One of the wonderful things about places like this is that one can learn things never before thought by helping other people. What a great crowd we've got here!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I must admit that I pity a little musicologists who only work with long-established material. The work of editing, of seeing a work take shape in Sibelius and eventually be heard again for the first time in ages is perhaps light-weight academically, but it is immensely satisfying.

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Today's Ferdinand Ries www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrL-...

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