Dr Oliver Doyle
@oliverdoyle.bsky.social
Early career musicologist, part-time tenor and harpsichordist. Director musicaantica.org.uk, teaching and admin at Royal Academy of Music. Ex-doctoral researcher, ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a year of Italian Printed Books’.
We're at the #edinburghfringe next month with our programme of gorgeous, largely forgotten arias from 1650's Venice, using two of @friendsofstcecilia.bsky.social ORIGINAL 16th and 17th century harpsichords! Tickets via the @edfringe.bsky.social website: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
The quaint Tuxlith Chapel in West Sussex stood derelict for many decades before we stepped in and rescued it in the 1970s. 1/15 📷 Interior before repair works - circa 1973 (See thread for after images)
@musicaantica.bsky.social 's next concert coming up on Saturday - lovely music, and only £2-£10 a ticket (though almost sold out)!
Looking forward to our Guidonian Hand workshop next week! Learn how to use it, and why it's important when singing and studying music fom 1200-1700. Tickets in 1st comment! #se16 #earlymusic
That's a wrap on our February tour - next stop: the album launch! #baroque #earlymusic #se16 #rotherhithe
We start touring a beautiful programme of rarely-heard (and unheard since 1650s) music from Venice in just over two weeks. If you're near Oxford, Durham, Sheffield or London, take a look at our website! #sheffield #durham #oxford #opera #earlymusic
And we're live! A tour of music from 17th century Venice and four programmes of beautiful music by Rameau, Binchois, Purcell, Strozzi, Bembo & the Caccini sisters make up Musica Antica Rotherhithe's 10th anniversary season. Tickets via our website! #se16 #rotherhithe #earlymusic #classicalmusic
Flyers ready and out for delivery! A Banchieri comedy and some lovely madrigals by Monteverdi, Marenzio and Casualana next month - tickets via our website! #earlymusic #concert #renaissance #se16 #rotherhithe
Gorgeous 17th century house going to ruin on the Three Peaks trail today. Original glass in the windows??
The brilliant @lmbd1418.bsky.social has suggested people write to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper re: my case. If you could spare five minutes, she's created a draft letter which you can use to send to coopery@parliament.uk. I appreciate everyone's support. ❤️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Support Dr Lindsey Fitzharris
Please use the below text as a template to email the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper at coopery@parliament.uk in support of Dr Lindsey Fitzharris in her fight against the appalling decision to restrict ...
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · last yr.I'm receiving a lot of replies re: my immigration woes. I appreciate suggestions. I don't have the energy to reply to everyone - I'm very depressed about the situation. I've been stuck in the USA for 15 days. I'm running out of drugs and will likely miss my MRI. Still nothing from the Home Office.
And it’s live! We read every book published in Italy in 1501 looking for references to music, and this is the first volume on what we found. Thanks to @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk, it’s free to read, though you can buy hard copies too www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books
This volume explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist...
openbookpublishers.com
And it's Week 5 in our crowdfunder! Donations are slowly coming in but we would love it if you would share, share, share! This week's history lesson is on how nuns had fun, with lovely video spots from Kristiina Watt, Victoria Couper, Yvonne Eddy, and Elspeth Piggott. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhQ...
Crowdfunder 5: Nuns have fun!
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
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When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
Ridiculous new toy given what I actually need is a new harpsichord, but very grateful to Glenn Braun, who makes instruments that are usually wholly unaffordable accessible - in this case a lira da braccio, one of the go-to instruments for self-accompanied singing in the 15th century!
Circe leaves the room when she hears most music, but apparently loves ars nova keyboard intabulations
The Israeli government and the IDF are, categorically, committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Go ahead: arrest me.
madoc cairns@madoc.bsky.social · last yr.Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
Prince William made £22.9M last year. But he won’t say how much tax he paid. What is he trying to hide? We fund the monarchy, so the least we deserve is transparency. ✍️ Sign the petition if you agree:
Ripieno Choir, based near Esher, is recruiting a choral scholar for 25-26. Deadline tomorrow! Looking for Tenor, Baritone or Bass aged 18-30. Sunday night rehearsals and termly concerts. £1200 stipend. ripienochoir.org.uk/join-us/choral-scholarship/
That might be because I’m writing about Renaissance gender bias
Reform has lost 11 councillors and 2 MPs in a matter of months… and when I say ‘lost’ I mean, they’ve quit following rows, impropriety or inability to do their jobs. So, if Brexit weren’t proof enough, then this barrelling shitshow should confirm forever that they should be nowhere near govt.
We’re already knee-deep in sources for ornamentation and continuo realisation! We’re all challenging our approaches to Historical Performance with this album, and can’t wait to share our work from this Autumn!
Musica Antica Rotherhithe@musicaantica.bsky.social · last yr.A week after launching the final stage of fundraising for our first album, & we’re almost there! Help bring the Venetian stage back to life in a new approach to recording the music of Cavalli, Strozzi & their contemporaries www.musicaantica.org.uk/support-our-... #opera #classicalmusic #earlymusic
Among many the bizzarre (some terrifying) questions people apparently needed answers to in 1474: ‘why it is better to have a thick neck than a thin one’.
'AI-generated reviews often suffer from five key weaknesses. They rely on vague...language. They misrepresent the paper’s scope....They flag issues that have already been addressed. They exhibit inconsistent or contradictory logic. And they lack the...nuance of a thoughtful human reviewer.' 1/2
My paper was probably reviewed by AI – and that’s a serious problem
Our paper was rejected on the basis of reviewer comments that were vague, formulaic, often irrelevant and occasionally inaccurate, says Seongjin Hong
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Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic
