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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Sanam ​Nader-Esfahani and I have served as co-chairs of the Five College Renaissance Seminar for three years now. ​We're very excited for the new ideas and energy that the next co-chairs will bring​: Brian Ogilvie and Emiliano Ricciardi!

Rebuilding a syllabus for a grad art song seminar this fall (a mix of performers, musicologists, and theorists). Esp hunting for rdgs on performance practice and reception: how recordings, singers, and interpretive traditions have shaped (or reshaped) what we think an art song 'means.' Recs welcome?

Nolan’s *Odyssey* is indeed loud. Peaked at 105db for 10 minutes straight.

Great news from Early Music Theory: The *Proportionale musices*, ed. and trans. JJD, has now been added to the EMT website: earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/te... for Book I, earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/te... for Books II–III. Work is in progress on *De natura et proprietate tonorum*.

The AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources is delighted to announce Early Music 101, a new series of interactive online workshops aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students curious about musical practices before 1600.

CFP: Bach & Dance (UMass Amherst Bach Symposium, 23-24 April 2027) Full CFP and abstraction submission here (deadline Tue Sep 1 2026): forms.gle/w1E8YCW7pmGH...

📣 Just a quick reminder that the MedRen 2026 Call for Papers deadline is 31 January! ⏳ Come to Warsaw 6-10 July 2026 for Med-Ren. Submit your proposal via the online form — link here and in comments. 👇 medren2026.uw.edu.pl/ninja-forms/...

Excited to have copies of Rick López’s new book *Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914* for the first Five College Renaissance Seminar meeting on 10/23, when Rick will be in conversation with art historian Nicola Courtright.

Making the most of the remainder of Winter term.

New review of the fabulous new album by my colleague Allison Monroe’s ensemble Trobár!

He Said/She Said in French Courtly Love » Early Music AmericaMedieval ensemble Trobár celebrates women in 14th and 15th c. song, centered on poet Christine de Pizan and her musical circles, including (male) composers who are now famous, obscure or anonymous. It...www.earlymusicamerica.org

On December 6th (4:30pm), the UMass Kinney Center and the School of Earth & Sustainability are co-sponsoring a talk at the Kinney Center with Annette Kehnel, author of The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability (2024) and Professor and Chair of Medieval History at University of Mannheim.