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Is this true, Wikipedia? Are Tennessee Williams and Quincy Jones distantly related to Aemilia Lanyer/Bassano, Nicholas Lanier &co? #completelyunhelpfulbutinterestingfacts

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As it's #GeorgeHerbert day, it's a good day to note that the (much more affordable!) paperback version of my Herbert & Music book is finally on its way - it's appeared on the CUP website for pre-order (though it won't be available for a few months yet): www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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My first recording of the Vaughan Williams Herbert settings was, I think, this disc from Naxos - so it was a pretty special treat to hear Simon Keenleyside in the flesh singing all 5 Mystical Songs tonight as the anthem at Evensong with the Choir of St John’s

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🪐✨🌟 After Evensong yesterday, @peterhousecam.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Sam Cabot set up his telescope outside chapel - we got to see VENUS and JUPITER and its moons! One of the most memorable Candlemas weekends. Just amazing working in this kind of place! #musicofthespheres #harmoniamundi

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This was a lovely morning out with ordinands from @westcotthousecam.bsky.social last term, visiting Leighton Bromswold (one of Herbert's churches) - distinguished by its twin pulpit and prayer desk

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So pleased & moved to see this published: not one of mine, but a chapter by my late sister-in-law Helen Mahoney, completed by my brother following her death from breast cancer in 2024: 'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social

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Farewell Oslo! @simonekotva.bsky.social and I are heading off on new adventures in Gothenburg (continuing my work in Cambridge) the city decked out in snow for our departure

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A #Tudor #carol for #Epiphany from Richard Hill's #CommonplaceBook, c1500-1536 Balliol ms354 Be merry all yat be present Omnes de Saba venient #tudors #earlymusic #earlymodern #magi #16thcentury #christmascarol #sixteenthcentury #manuscript

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‘This TEXT may seeme to come a little too soone’. Since Epiphany wasn’t a sermon day at court, Lancelot Andrewes edged the Magi into Christmas, probably not without later influence on popular conflation of the two.

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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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Happy new year from Oslo’s first snowfall of 2025

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Henry #Lawes: A Glee at #Christmas - Tis Christmas Now. From Select ayres and dialogues to sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol , 1669 Eleanor Cramer: soprano Christopher Goodwin: lute Alison Kinder: bass viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGp... #earlymusic #earlymodern #17thC #12daysofChristmas

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A #carol for St Stephen's Day From Richard Hill's #CommonplaceBook, c1500-36 Balliol ms 354 Now syng we both all & sum Lapidauerunt Stephanum #earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #otd #onthisday #carols #christmascarols

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You can now listen to @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's recording of the Norwegian Carol 'Eit barn er født i Betlehem' (A Child is born in Bethlehem) on Spotify - merry Christmas!! open.spotify.com/album/0pUf1U...

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Season's Greetings from Peterhouse! Inspired by their tour to Scandinavia in the summer, the Choir of Peterhouse bring you the Norwegian folk carol 'Eit barn er født i Betlehem' (A Child is born in Bethlehem) arranged by contemporary Norwegian composer Ørjan Matre www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ru...

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Our Christmas Film has landed! This year's festive treat from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir is inspired by our tour to Scandinavia in the summer: the Norwegian folk carol 'Eit barn er født i Betlehem' (A Child is born in Bethlehem) arr by Ørjan Matre youtu.be/m3ru3fSK_t4

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I heard a while back of a Star Trek episode named after Herbert’s “Jordan (I)”. In the name of research, boldly going there this evening….

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The snow has started falling outside, it’s nearly midwinter: finally time to start this wonderfully atmospheric macabre masterpiece - look at that cover!

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The Oslo fjord, sun setting

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Good book for a flight? Let’s see….

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Just realised that Arnold Hunt's brilliant sounding new book /Protestant Bodies: Gesture in the English Reformation/ is out in January 2025! #earlymodern #reformazing 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

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We finished our @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir term yesterday with some filming in chapel - our Christmas film coming soon! I think the Choir needs a well-earned rest….

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Link to the order of service for the reopening ceremony at #NotreDame, including the awakening of the organ, and France 24 states the service will start at 7PM local time, 6 in the UK — please chip in if this is wrong. www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/reopening... www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/reopening...

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Very moving discussion on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social just now with Olivier Latry about the liturgy rededicating and awakening the organ at Notre Dame later today - sounds like an incredible service

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Christmas comes early in Cambridge! Carol service tonight - Choir, organ, brass and harp! Music by @errollynwallen.bsky.social, Cecilia McDowall, Britten, a Norwegian Folk Carol, & premiere by Ben Ponniah And if you can't be there, there are always our recordings: open.spotify.com/album/25ss8x...

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VERY pleased that MUP has now published my book on Anna of Denmark in paperback which makes it waaay more affordable: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182500/

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Just got a note from OUP that this has been sent to the printer. Won't be long now! I'll have more when it actually appears.

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A lovely (if chilly) Saturday morning trip to Herbert’s church at Leighton Bromswold to talk to ordinands from Westcott House about The Temple & H’s restoration work on the church, followed by a brief sortie to the Ferrars’ church at Little Gidding (I left my phone, so photos harvested from the web)

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Wishing you a blessed St Cecilia's Day, with the immortal poetry of Mr Dryden.

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Happy St Cecilia's Day! Some members of Peterhouse Choir have decided to celebrate by putting on a concert of music from Scandinavia & the Nordic countries this evening in Peterhouse Chapel at 6.30pm. Free entry, and you even get Norwegian Apple Cake afterwards. All welcome!

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The Yule cat, a huge and vicious feline from Icelandic Christmas folklore, said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve 😼 #WyrdWednesday 🎨by Tao Tao Holmes

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Last of the introductory posts--my book on Herbert & Music: Lots about the relationship between music & poetry & theology in the early modern period, as well as interactions with secular music. Still in expensive hardback, but hopefully in more affordable paperback soon... doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Would you like to find out how our humanities (English Literature and Music) team is working with Bio-environmental Scientists and Software Engineers on 🐝🐝🐝? Please join our @englishassociation.bsky.social Thinking Forwards lunchtime chat on 29th November englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...

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This is, I think, the York Minster manuscript in which I found John Jenkins's lovely little setting of Herbert's poem 'Evensong', 'Blest be the God of love' - among the earliest extant Herbert setting out there. Performed beautifully here: youtu.be/AnJizWzQFGs?...

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Continuing to introduce myself here: I don't actually do masses of composing, but I wrote this a few years back and it's been quite popular. Based on a Swedish maritime folksong, Trilo, it's a setting of Campion's Never weather-beaten sail - I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/6kllfz9uaOI?...

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