Now Enrolling - Catch a Vibe 🎶🎭 Please note: Our office closes for the Christmas period Friday 19th at 5pm, we will respond to any queries after that upon our return in the New Year. For more info contact - converge@northumbria.ac.uk #northumbriauniversity #learning #wellbeing #music

Primary School Teachers! Are you looking for fun resources for teaching the Tudors? Check out this 6-week programme 'Singing the Tudors'. Lessons plans, slides, singing videos, etc. Free download: northumbriaknowledgebank.flintbox.com/technologies... #primaryedusky #music #earlymodern #singing

Med Ren starts today! If you're new to the conference do come and say hi and look out for Caro's pubtrip this evening.

MedRen2025@medren2025.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Attention MedRen Newbies!🚨 We're grateful to Caro Lesemann-Elliott who acting as a 'port of call' for PGRs/ECRs and those new to MedRen. They are also leading an informal pub trip after the concert on the first day (location tbc at the welcome talk!)

Don't forget to register this week!

MedRen2025@medren2025.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration is now live for MedRen2025! Bookings made before 30 May will qualify for the reduced ‘early-bird’ rate. Details on how to registration is availble below: www.medren2025.co.uk/registration

We are pleased to announce the continuation of 2 awards. The @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social award for the Best Poster Presentation at MedRen2025 And the Award in Memory of Lenka Hlávková for the most promising paper by an PGR/ECR More information can be found here: www.medren2025.co.uk/awards

For the full list of Late Show events visit: thelateshows.org.uk/2025 #TheLateShows2025 #TheLateshows #NorthumbriaUni #NewcastleGateshead #CultureNight

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows on Saturday. Come along and help me write a 'Newcastle Late Show' catch (I can also teach you a Tudor drinking song!). Details: thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

Northumbria University@northumbriauni.bsky.social · last yr.

➡️Sound Travels, Saturday 6pm - 10.30pm - Student Central, Northumbria University City Campus Explore musical journeys through time and place, trace the long histories of songs still sung today, take part in mini music workshops, and get visually creative to express your own musical journey!

My first book Improvising Otherwise: A Decolonial Feminist Approach to Improvisation in Early Modern Culture is out now with @openbookpublish.bsky.social 🌺 it's open access and free to read and download here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #newbook #improvisation #earlymodern #feminist

📣 Calling all altos, tenors and basses aged 11-18! ✨ On Sat 28th June we will host our first ever day for young singers aged 11-18. This is aimed at parish church choir choristers, and other young singers with experience looking to gain new ensemble and leadership skills. 🧵

Starting a new chapter on religious rounds today. What new recent lit on domestic devotion/lay pietyy in 16th/early 17th C Britain should I not miss? #earlymodern

We're pleased to be able to publish the provisional conference schedule! More information on registration will be availble next week. www.medren2025.co.uk/conference-p...

Fun day out singing rounds and catches in the long gallery at Kiplin Hall with Michael, Liza and Eimear, and visitors. Songs included some found at the hall itself #earlymodern #musicology @britishacademy.bsky.social

In North East UK and making plans for May bank holiday weekend? Why not visit Kiplin Hall and join in with singing some fun Jacobean rounds? All age/ family friendly 15-minute drop-in workshops 11am-2pm on 3 May. All voices welcome! kiplinhall.co.uk/events/pop-u... #earlymodern #singing #history

Do you have a UK music degree? Would you be willing to share your career story, whether in or outside of music? A student intern is building a website to highlight where music degrees can lead. Please do get in touch if you could contribute, or share with anyone you know. Many thanks! #musicology

Looking forward to taking part in the Newcastle Late Shows in May this year. What a fab programme they've put together. If you're nearby do come and visit our stop (no. 67) on the culture crawl 'Sound Travels' for music-making, singing, craft and exciting new research: thelateshows.org.uk/2025

Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....

Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’ll miss the Byrd Nyrds & their joyful bringing of William Byrd’s music & music-making to young chycks! From one byrd to another, glad to have sponsored some of these activities through our public engagement scheme. Wasn’t it a terrific project?! *preens* 💫🐣🎶 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project...

At #RSA2025 and looking for a fun morning session? Try our workshop on ubiquitous music-making in #earlymodern England. No musical experience necessary. Ballads, rounds, psalms, theatre songs, instrumental variations...

This article on the representation of angels on the early modern stage looks fascinating. Can't wait to read!

Caitlín Rankin-McCabe@rankinmccabe.bsky.social · 2y ago

My first article is officially in print! Vol. 39, No. 2 of Renaissance Studies! :)

Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2y ago

New issue of Renaissance Studies Vol. 39, No. 2 (2025) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658... @rankinmccabe.bsky.social @ka-butler.bsky.social

I'm one of the organisers of the Gilbert White and his Contexts conference this June, celebrating the author of the Natural History of Selborne. We've got some great keynote speakers, outings, and many brilliant papers. Proposal submission is open online until 4 April. www.gilbertwhite.org.uk

Registration is now open for 'Everyday Music Scenes: Pubs, Clubs and ‘Stutes', RMA Study Day, Newcastle University. 14th-15th April 2025 www.rma.ac.uk/2025/03/10/r...

Puzzling over the meaning of catch lyrics this morning. There are three verses, which in essence are: The jolly old dog as he lay in his den. Scots do you see the sack that hangs on the wall? A jug, bag, purse, sack that hangs on the wall Any ideas #earlymodern?

Welcome to BlueSky! Sounds like a great project- can't wait to hear what you find.

Music Heritage Place@musicheritageplace.bsky.social · 2y ago

We've arrived on Bluesky to talk all things #music #heritage #archives #place #bookhistory #history. Follow us for project updates as we uncover music held across England's record offices to reconstruct the untold stories of the music and musicians in our everyday lives up to c.1850.

Fascinating discoveries here!

Alana Mailes@alanamailes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Big news from 400 years ago! Turns out the 17th-century English musician and composer Richard Dering secretly converted to Catholicism and worked at the Venerable English College in Rome. Proud to publish the research I’ve done to unearth all of this with Maurice Whitehead.

With a new account, it is the perfect time to shamelessly plug the fact that we are recuriting new members to join our wonderful Commitee! Read below to find out more and apply using the link here: forms.gle/YopXm3A55Ac7...

a slightly unorthodox celebration of the feast of St Anthony Abbot yesterday, marked by the submission of my DPhil! many thanks to all those who have given advice and listened to me bang on about the Chapel Royal!

Seeking help from #earlymodern literary scholars: I'm compiling a list of representations of/ references to singing rounds, catches, canons, or 'x parts in one' in plays from c.1550-1650 (with or without extant lyrics) beyond the well-known example like Twelfth Night. Grateful for any leads. Thanks!

CfP Medieval and Renaissance Music Conf 2025, 30 June- 4 July at Northumbria, Newcastle & Durham. All topics welcome, but themes incl. borders, migration, ideas of north, Gibbons, Palestrina, materiality, editing, popular trads. Deadline 31 Jan. www.medren2025.co.uk/cfp #earlymodern #musicology

MedRen2025 - CfP

From 30 June to 4 July 2025, the universities of Newcastle, Durham, and Northumbria will host the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. We warmly welcome proposals from across the entire ...

medren2025.co.uk

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long sixteenth century. Please share, contact me with suggestions for other people to include, and of course if you would like to be included yourself. #skystorians #SixteenthCentury #StarterPack #history #EarlyModern go.bsky.app/U4CEeWN