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‘Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350’, an ERC Consolidator Grant project @MaynoothUni (PI: Prof. Karen Desmond) https://ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/

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BROKENSONG@brokensong2023.bsky.social · last yr.

Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.

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Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

A screenshot of a catalogue entry from the Cambridge University Library illuminated manuscript catalogue. I have overlaid this with my annotations. Here I will describe the original text and then my annotation on it, which I will precede with the word, NOTE. It goes like this: 178. Note: number of the manuscript as it appears in this catalogue Add. 4086. Note: Shelfmark see also Pl. LIX. Note: "plate" means an image, usually in color, elsewhere in the catalogue Horae. Note: Contents or title of the text in this manuscript, in this case a book of hours Use of Sarum. Note: Use refers to the rites as practiced ina certain region; here Salisbury (Sarum is Latin) England, London. Note: place where the manuscript was made S. xiv with a superscript 4/4. Note: S means century from Latin for saeculum; xiv is the 14th century; and 4/4 means the fourth quarter of the century. This whole thing means the manuscript was made in the fourth quarter of the 14th century. Parchment. Note: the writing support (what the pages are made of) ii + 121 + 1 fols. Note: this manuscript starts with two flyleaves, has 121 folios, and ends with 1 endleaf. 165 x 122 mm (133 x 90 mm). Note: these two separate measurements refer, respectively, to the size of the folios and the dimensions of the area on each ruled for text. ruled in red ink, below top line. Note: below top line is a method for determining whether a manuscript was copied before or after c.1220. rubrics, catchwords, 2o folio ipse est. Note; Secundo folio means the first words on the second folio of the manuscript, often the way a manuscript was catalogued in the Middle Ages.
BROKENSONG@brokensong2023.bsky.social · last yr.

Come join us! We're hiring a new senior postdoc for the #BROKENSONG project. Closing date Feb 25, 205. Background in computational musicology #DH, computer science, AI, and/or mathematics/statistics. Full details and a link to the job posting here: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, Music - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 386975

The candidate should have several years of demonstrated programming experience, preferably post PhD, in relevant programming ...

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BROKENSONG@brokensong2023.bsky.social · 2y ago

Inaugural lecture's focus is Prof Desmond's research on medieval music fragments & music reconstruction and the #Brokensong project at @maynoothuni.bsky.social #medievalsky: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Prof Karen Desmond delivers Inaugural Lecture on medieval music

Prof Karen Desmond, an internationally recognised scholar in medieval musicology, delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University, titled "Medieval Parchment Fragments and Musical

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