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Alana Mailes

@alanamailes.bsky.social

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Musicologist, classical singer, historian of extremely old-timey things 🎼🎵📚📜

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our co-edited volume is coming out this autumn!

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Stuart Serenissima | Home

Venice and England in the seventeenth century

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Most frustrating phrase in a historical letter: “But that can only be spoken of if we should meet.” No no! Put it in writing, please! I need the ☕️

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

LOL @ at this record from the early USC College of Music, 1917: “February 25: Los Angeles’ first harpsichord and clavichord recital was given by Frederick Schoenfeld; performing in late eighteenth century costume, Schoenfeld played works by J.S. Bach, Byrd, Couperin and Scarlatti.”

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Los Angeles friends, I will be giving this talk on April 16! And a similar version at Duke University March 27.

huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com

The Sound of Second Sight: Music, Mysticism, and the Making of St. Hugh's College, Oxford

Presenter: Alana Mailes Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain are best known for co-authoring An Adventure (1911), in which they claimed to have time-slipped back to Marie...

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My second, short article on music and diplomacy in early modern Savoy came out today! Fantastical court ballets, dramatic stage accidents, people irreverently dancing to viols on city walls during a siege…What more could one want from 17th-century diplomatic documents?! 💃🏻🕺🏻🪩

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Exciting news: my short book on Jesuit martyr plays is out today! And free to read for the next two weeks!

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English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage

Cambridge Core - Music: General Interest - English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Happy Sunday! My article on travelogues is out! And open access ✨🌟🥂

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“All kiend of Musicke: and Instriments of Warr”: British Travel Writers in Seicento Venice

'“All kiend of Musicke: and Instriments of Warr”: British Travel Writers in Seicento Venice from The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music

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Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In case you're around @thehuntington.bsky.social this week, I'm giving a talk on Thursday at noon based on my recent Donne article. Performances by @alanamailes.bsky.social with GRAMMY-winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs. Should be fun! Hope to see you there! huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/13766214

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Donne's Lost Songs

Presenter: Ross Duffin, Distinguished University Professor and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University The poetry of John Donne is widely...

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Ross W. Duffin @rosswmd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It’s here! My book on music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques! With nice blurbs by some very knowledgeable people (who really did read the book)! With lots of music and a full-color insert! Enjoy!

Cover of the book “Unmasked: Lost Music for the 1613 Palatine Wedding Masques” (OUP, 2025).

Back cover with blurbs by Peter Holman, Peter Walls, Stephen Orgel, and Nadine Ackerman.

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Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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.

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A Stuart Musician’s Conversion to Catholicism: Richard Dering and the Venerable English College, Rome

ABSTRACT. The English organist and composer Richard Dering (c.1580–1630) is recognized today for his key role in the transmission of Italian musical styles

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