Week 2 of works in Music. No tap dancing today.

Full of unexpected cold today but managed to make a chicken cacciatore for dinner that pleased, or was at least demolished by, the teens. Definitely comforting.

(But I did say please.)

Today has included a trip to the local greengrocer, barber, bakery, butcher and hardware shop. Feel like I’m in the Elephant and the Bad Baby story, or at least 1957.

Karin Bergmann © SF/Neumayr/Leo

News: Karin Bergmann appointed Interim Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June.

We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold
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Exposition « Inoubliables » : plus de 40 femmes artistes des anciens Pays-Bas sortent enfin de l'ombre au musée des beaux-arts de Gand Nombre d’artistes femmes flamandes et hollandaises, actives dans les années 1600 à 1750, ont réussi à se faire un nom de leur vivant, et à conquérir une place dans le monde artistique et sur le marché...

Plus de 40 femmes artistes des anciens Pays-Bas sortent enfin de l’ombre au musée des beaux-arts de Gand. #Exposition
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Novels/Fiction About Women Composers

I too loved that book!

On the subject of fiction that's about/features historical women composers, upon discovering that there were no collections focussed on that specifically, I created a database.

(There are a few newly discovered titles yet to be inputted.)

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Thank you for sharing!

They should! I enjoyed Leah Broad’s Quartet, which covered four women contemporaries including Smyth.

A manuscript page with a large initial R formed to two intertwined dragons

Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick!

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PGR Failure Cafe! April 8th, 1pm-3pm in the PGR Common Room at 8-14 Abercromby Square. We've all dropped the ball, lost the plot, missed a deadline, deleted the wrong file, misread the room... failure is universal and you're not alone! Join us for tea, coffee, biscuits and to swap tales of woe 😩😱

Today's #marginalmusicians (#bagpiper, #lutenist & #trumpeter) are all unfinished outlines, with the colours still to be added.
From L'Ystoire du tres sainct Charlesmayne, 1475-1500
BnF, Français 4970

#ManuscriptMonday #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #bagpipe #lute #15thCentury

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Out-of-office on for the next week, including bonus bank holiday Monday. Hoorah.

@royalmusical.bsky.social Two more excellent presentations! Lindsay Carter on having a publication plan, Freya Jarman and Catherine Tackley on publishing in journals

At @royalmusical.bsky.social event listening to Richard Anderson on his publication journey

Why does responding to a few reviewer comments inevitably lead to a middle phase of creating endless spaghetti-esque tangles?

Always a good day when reminded of this historical moment.

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Good point!

I’d not spotted the SECOND chapter, that’s brilliant! I look forward to reading both, and indeed the book as a whole. Heard “Tradimento” on Record Review this weekend so it’s a strong Strozzi week!

Barbara Strozzi in Context | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Great to see a chapter by @cnlester.bsky.social in this important new book on Strozzi www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Gave a talk about Dame Ethel Smyth at the Victoria Gallery and Museum today, and discussion afterwards brought up the question of who might play her in a biopic. Top suggestions: Olivia Coleman, Margaret Rutherford, Patricia Routledge, Miriam Margolyes. @victoriagallery.bsky.social #IWD

Sounds awesome.

Screenshot of the link and search referred to in the post: ECDF in Jazz & Popular Music, Lecturer in Music for Screen Education (Academic Education Pathway), Lecturer in Music History, Lecturer in Performance (Academic Education Pathway)

🚨FOUR jobs in Music🚨 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Early Career Development Fellowship in Jazz & Popular Music (2 yr): deadline 31 March

18C Music History (permanent!), Screen Composition (18 mo), Performance (2 yr): deadline 12 March

Search "Music": www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs

Bebe Barron

Wendy Carlos

Daphne Oram

Laurie Spiegel

These remarkable women of early electronic music pushed the boundaries of technology and composition, turning circuits, sine waves, and tape loops into music. https://disc.gs/3ZWRk1U

**NEW POST**

LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap.

This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT.

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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Medieval Women and the Book This course reviews some of the evidence for the role of women – as scribes, illuminators, patrons and authors – in the creation of medieval manuscripts in the western world.

The amazing Michelle Brown is running her summer school course on Medieval Women at #LRBS this year. In person, in London, book now 👇 #MedievalSky #BookSky #BookHistory

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