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scotttrudell.bsky.social
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
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“It seems that it’s a philosopher’s job to say every word three times, its opposite twice and then the original word again, italicised.” (Patricia Lockwood, That Shape Am I, LRB)

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Excited to see this in proofs! It's for a collection called 'Literature as Sound Studies' edited by the fabulous yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. In it I declare my love for Thomas Dekker and his "wild propagation of laughing, hissing, thundering 'scurvynoise.'"

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A fascinating detail in my 1607 Graduale Romanum, printed in Antwerp: a correction pinned directly onto the sheet music with a brass pin! A 17th-century "Typo-fix" to adapt the liturgical chant to correct a printing error. I 😍 these details! #BookHistory #RareBooks #MusicHistory

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Anyone know what we know (if anything) about doubling practices in the EM children's companies? The work I know on doubling tends to be focused on the adult playing companies...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Today is the feast day of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Please enjoy this video of the French bass 😍 Nicolas Brooymans 😍 singing "Wondrous Machine" from Purcell's "Ode to St Cecilia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1C...

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Nifty coats of arms in a 1583 English translation of Urbanus Rhegius's Homily or Sermon on Good and Evil Angels. Spoiler alert: no way to tell whether angels are good or evil. photos from @folgerlibrary.bsky.social

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Lucinda Williams last night at the Lincoln Theater — luminous. What a legend.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Writing about a play called The Virgin Martyr today. It's full of insulting terms for a sanctimonious child angel: “petite garsoone,” “sweet Nit,” “demi-dandiprat,” “scuruy Puerilis,” ”pinke-an-eye Iacke-an Apes boy," “peaking chitface.”

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Thomas Churchyard on the feels when your parade is rained on: “we were all so dashed and washed, that it was a greater pastime to see vs looke like drowned Rattes, than to haue beheld the vttermost of the Shewes rehearsed.”

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