How do you do, fellow kids? Explore the art of melodrama in Taylor Swift's latest LP, The Tortured Poets Department, with Dr Sam Murray from School of the Arts's Music Dept theconversation.com/taylor-swifts-…

Myself and Dr Katherine Emery are excited to announce a call for chapters for a volume we are editing together! The volume will be submitted for review to Song Studies, as part of their book series with Amsterdam Univ Press. All information below. Please share widely if you can!🎶🎨

Conductor #SirAndrewDavis RIP. Remembered for brilliant work with BBCSO, Glyndebourne and far far more, including the wittiest ever Last Night of Proms speeches

😍And it was FAB 👏The array of talent on display tonight was stunning. You should all be very proud.

Getting ready for some Purcell tonight The Tung Auditorium School of the Arts

And a former choral scholar at Liverpool Cathedral!

'Universities don’t operate in siloes with arts and STEM separated.' Collaboration between humanities and sciences is 'mutually beneficial' in the rapidly evolving creative sector says Newcastle University Adam Behr. theconversation.com/uks-creative-i…

So thrilled! I’ve been given the Janet Arnold Award by Society of Antiquaries of London to recreate the clothing described in the #16thC #song #Greensleeves .
Excited to be working on this project with such superb costume historians.
Dr Serena Dyer The Tudor Tailor
#Tudor #earlymusic #earlymodern

My daughter sent me this photo last week because although *she* didn’t want to go to visit this place she knew *I* would be jealous.

Trolled with Beverley Minster by my own child. Is there a support group for that?

I see the old 'aitch'/'haitch' rubbish is starting again. Let's just live with them as alternatives. The origins lie in French 'hache'. English-speakers have gone two routes on this: think of 'hour' with no pronounced 'h' but 'habit' in which it's thought 'proper' to do the 'h'.

Cromwell's soldiers ransacked Peterborough's library for anything they thought might be a missal or papal bull, but destroying anything that looked medieval - clergy desperately hid manuscripts in holes in the wall, but a few survived when they were bought back from the soldiers

'Why are universities all over the country closing arts courses and cutting jobs? Front Row investigates and considers the consequences.' Do tune into BBC Front Row tonight: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00….

We write, as the UK’s largest and oldest learned society in music, with serious concerns about the impact on the Department of Music at Goldsmiths of the cuts proposed in the Goldsmiths ‘Transformation Programme’.

Avoiding overdue research tasks by doing overdue administrative tasks. Productivity of sorts.

Are you a research student? Organising a study day is an excellent way to bring together academics who share your research interests. It's also a valuable way to gain experience of working within uni administration structures for research students seeking a career in academia.

Postdoctoral projects & PhD studies simply waiting to happen at the University of Liverpool Department of Music include wading through our fabulous archives, whether the Institute of Popular Music archive recently rehomed or the special collections selections of medieval chant books. School of the Arts

Working in the loft in a hailstorm / torrential downpour and feeling our terrace wiggle a bit in the strong winds is a little distracting.

Eighteenth-Century Music welcomes submissions featuring any materials and methods relating to music of the long #18c (c1660-1830). Full-length articles should normally be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long, and reviews and reports up to 1,500 words. #musicology
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I have the same piece of music in two different duet books. The left is by Telemann and the right is by Locatelli! Does anyone know who actually wrote this piece and/or which is the original key?