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“Fire” movement from Rachel Portman’s Tipping Points

Tipping Points: IV. FireYouTube video by Niklas Liepe - Topicyoutu.be

Nick Drake’s “Fire” from Rachel Portman’s Tipping Points (2022)

Tipping Points: Fire (Poem)YouTube video by Release - Topicyoutu.be

If you want to take a peek at the MS yourself: www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/2899/

Early fifteenth-century composer John Dunstaple’s annotations add new light to our understanding of the reception of Boethius’s treatise De institutione musica.

Exciting!

Loot & Repair. Plunder and Restitution between the Early Modern Battlefield and the Modern-Day MuseumIl termine bottino (loot), indicante una categoria di oggetti che esiste prevalentemente in funzione della conquista, descrive una relazione di possesso, se non più specificamente di espropriazione. I...www.officinalibraria.net

🎉 We are pleased to announce that the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are a new subscribing member to our @openingthefuture.bsky.social programme! As well as enhancing their eBook collection, by subscribing they are contributing to new #openaccess titles. Learn more > buff.ly/EO4IwMw

𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗰.𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟬–𝗰.𝟭𝟳𝟬𝟬 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗼 𝘆 𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼 𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮 Edited by Eduardo Carrero Santamaría, Tess Knighton and Francesc Orts-Ruiz Available in Open Access More Info: bit.ly/4fw40Fv #UrbanHistory #Music #Renaissance #Baroque #Musicology #Valencia #History

Adding new meaning to looking through a book. From Gaspare Visconti’s Di Paolo e Daria amanti (1494-6). Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78 C 27, fol. 110.

Check out the wonderful festival and its schedule of concerts, masterclasses, and public-facing talks here: gmcmf.org

From a few weeks back at the wonderful Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in VT. So much fun collaborating with brilliant musicians to bring Mendelssohn Op13 to life. Also got to work with other quartets while talking about Prokofiev 2nd, Shosty 4th, Montgomery’s Strum, and Mendelssohn Op80.

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Last week’s adventures are over and he’s back to his usual form. So much better than the cone of shame in the end, but not as elegant as the Tudor ruffle making the rounds online.

Rare Book School mourns the loss of medieval manuscripts expert and RBS emeritus faculty member Albert Derolez. "His kindness as much as his brilliance will be remembered by those who knew him," said Director Michael F. Suarez, S.J. rarebookschool.org/resources/2026/07/rbs-mourns-albert-derolez

Rare Book School Mourns Emeritus Faculty Member Albert Derolez (1934–2026) - Rare Book SchoolIt is with profound sadness that Rare Book School announces the death of RBS emeritus faculty member Albert Derolez on 11 July 2026, at the age of 91.rarebookschool.org

Arrived today! The fabulous triumph of a book published by Brepols, edited by John Griffiths, David Dolata, and Philippe Vendrix and contributions by many more: Tablature: Europe, 1300-1750. Essential rdg on overlooked topic for scholars and performers of late medieval and early modern music.

Drawing on an ongoing project on the 4 classical elements and the arts, I'll be sharing gems I've found along the way, starting with this mvt from Purcell's Hail! Bright Cecilia, in which "each Tree its silence breaks" as instruments, "When to the Thracian Lyre with leafy Wings they flew."

Hail! bright Cecilia!: III. Hark! hark! Each TreeYouTube video by Philippe Herreweghe - Topicwww.youtube.com

Think you spend too much time with your choir? Here's a summary of the chorister routine at Cambrai Cathedral in the 18th-century

Stoessel’s discerning review reminds me that there are several essays in *Composers in the Middle Ages* that I need to read: scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind... @jjstoessel.bsky.social

New Medieval Books: Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/07/new-... #historybooks #medieval #history

New Medieval Books: Venice and the Mongols - Medievalists.netAs two powers expanded, Venice eastward and the Mongol Empire westward, their interests converged around trade. This book explores their diplomacy and commercial ties, revealing how the Black Sea…www.medievalists.net

Just out: Giulio Pertile shows how early modern poetry about the creation of the world reconceptualized human creation as well. It's an insighful look at the relation between religion and poetics, with particular attention to human's impact on the planet. And it has a fabulous cover!

From 2023-2026, we had 14 scholarly conversations in the fields of early modern literary studies, art history, history, book history, musicology, history of science, and architectural history, and on topics engaging with regions including Italy, Ethiopia, Persia, Japan, Germany, France, and Mexico.