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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to dig into the latest issue of Journal of Musicology with the special theme: “Listening to Istanbul: Toward an Urban Poetics” online.ucpress.edu/jm/issue/43/4

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Volume 43 Issue 4 | Journal of Musicology | University of California Press

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Script and Sound Seminar: Early Music Research at KBR" online only, on 26 November 2026, from 4:15 to 6:30 pm CET. What a line-up of musicians and scholars sharing their perspectives on performance of early music and its history. Program and registration: www.alamirefoundation.org/en/outreach/...

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The next Sewanee Medieval Colloquium (26-27 Feb 2027) has "scandal" as its theme, and 11 sub-themes just dropped! October 15 is the abstract deadline. The more (scandalous), the merrier! www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/subthemes

Manuscript image for title of Sewanee Medieval Colloquium and its 2027 theme of scandal.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fantastic Kerry McCarthy will deliver the keynote talk titled "Five Ways of Looking at a Tudor Singer" at this year’s online business meeting of the AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources on *Thursday 15 October*. Join the study group to get for more details! emsr.ams-net.org

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Early Musics Skills and Resources Study Group – American Musicological Society

Early Musics Skills and Resources

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/09/2026

Thank you for writing this because this is where I'm going. The humanities crisis is a funding crisis and an institutional bias crisis not a declining majors crisis. It is about institutional bias against what we do and our woefully minuscule resources www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Does humanities research matter anymore? (opinion)

The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I believe the MS pictured in the original post is Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.10.5. The full report is at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and if you find Supplementary Materials at the end you can get a spreadsheet that includes shelfmarks and links to MSS online where available. #medievalsky

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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A joy collaborating on this 2023 NEH-funded public event with Peabody Essex Museum (maritime curator Daniel Finamore) and scholars Revell Carr, Pallas Catenella, and Rebecca Marchand for which well over 100 showed up in a snowstorm to sing and learn about sea shanties. Alas I had the flu that day.

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Sea Shanties - From Ship to Shore - American Musicological Society, Inc.

This event will explore the history of sea shanties and New England’s maritime history with live music-making ...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/08/2026

"On the day the administration released the new strategic plan, which didn’t reflect the committee’s work, they called for volunteers to form a committee to start drafting the next new strategic plan." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pro...

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Professor Sisyphus Begins a New Semester

“Professor Sisyphus learned a slang word. He was excited to impress his students. Then he discovered that as soon as he uttered slang in class—poof! It would...

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been excited to get a hold of James Pilgrim’s book Pastoral’s End: Art, Ecology, and Catastrophe in Renaissance Italy. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Take a trip to Pompeii without leaving your home. Italian artist Luigi Spina had unprecedented access to photograph in all its glory—all times of day, in all seasons, in natural light, and without visitors.

Various photographs of Pompeii's archaeological site interiors and exteriors in different times of day and different seasons without visitors.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

T-minus 15 days to fall semester. Staring down the to-do list…

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mark Ferraguto, Nick Mathew, Megan Ross, Olga Sanchez Kisielewska…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am so excited that this is finally out! The series is the work of an amazing set of historians. I edited volume 2, with contributions from @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and many others --intended for general reference and classroom use. Tell your librarians!!! www.bloomsbury.com/us/cultural-...

Picture of a book: A Cultural History of the Environment in the Age of Emperors, edited by Ellen Arnold. There is a medieval elephant on the cover.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Session III: Filling Up Your Research Toolkit (Thursday, Dec 10, 4:00 EST) Jennifer Bain and Luisa Nardini survey the essential skills and resources of the early music researcher, from transcribing early notation to using digital repositories and databases.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Session II: What is a Source (Thursday, Oct 29, 4:00 EDT) Mary Channen Caldwell and Giovanni Zanovello explore what counts as a “source” in early music research, examining the manuscripts, prints, and other materials that preserve musical practices from before 1600.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Session I: What is Archival Research (Thursday, Sept 24, 4:00 EDT) Sarah Long and Catherine Saucier introduce the fundamentals of archival research in early music, from planning visits to archives and special collections to navigating the primary sources found there.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sign up! The AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources hosts free Early Music 101 workshops for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, & researchers seeking a 2nd specialization in early music. Introducing longstanding and emergent areas of inquiry & demystifying essential skills.

Medieval manuscript illumination depicting Pythagoras in green garb holding hammers and bells.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“…a manuscript, music written in a composer’s hand, has the almost magical power to make even the most distant giants feel near and alive…” Also music written in a nun’s or monk’s hand, or a theorist’s or singer’s or a student’s…

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Musical Manuscripts Are Intimate and Transporting. See Why.

Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director, takes us on a tour through the handwritten score of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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...

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The long-awaited Art Songs of the Burgundian Era, 1415-1480, by David Fallows has arrived on my desk. Navigating this repertory for the last 25+ years has been made possible because of David’s 1999 catalogue and I’m excited to engage and argue with his systematic analysis of more than 1000 songs.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Play ball! Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 (1344). digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/ae9f...

Image from the floral margin of a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript depicting monks and nuns engaged in what looks like baseball.

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Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Super interesting discussion with @brettrushforth.bsky.social and Chris Hodson about their new book about the French Atlantic: archives, collaboration, writing, organizing your research, questioning big narratives, history from below, and more #earlymodern

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/08/2026

We’re releasing selected highlights from our Close Readings subscription podcast in full to mark a ‘summer of travel’. This week, @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social and Mary Wellesley look at the fantastical medieval bestseller 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 2 August · 1hr 2min

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Additionally, not all study group members have subscription access to RILM.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No, it definitely is still going, but sometimes records don’t appear for a year or two. The study group is building this to clearly and systematically highlight new work that’s coming out in the world of early music.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Help needed! The AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources is building a bibliography of recent monographs and edited volumes on pre-1600 musical traditions. It’s not yet exhaustive, but it’d be great to get as close as possible. What’s missing? Apologies for anything currently left off.

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Recent Scholarship for AMS-EMSR newsletter

AMS-EMSR Study Group Recent Scholarship Journals dedicated to Pre-1600 Repertories Early Music [link] Early Music History [link] Plainsong & Medieval Music [link] Journal of the Alamire Foundation [...

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Christopher Cerrone’s Beaufort Scales for 8 voices and electronics (2023) on fabulous recording by Lorelei Ensemble (dir. Beth Willer). Amid 13 sung movements on poetic texts about the force of wind are 4 narrated interludes on texts from Melville, Fitzgerald, Anne Carson, and the King James Bible.

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Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales - YouTube

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Plus we hosted the 2nd Early Modern Iberian Studies Seminar of New England! Endless gratitude to Liz Fox and Jeff Goodhind, and the many students and colleagues who made it all happen. Can't wait to see where the Center goes next.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

So proud of the artists in residence behind The Resilient Roots: Pollinators, Weeds, and the Art of Repair, and happy to have been there to open two compelling exhibits of Gillespie Curatorial Fellows in Shakespeare & the Book! Plus we hosted the 2nd Early Mod Iberian Studies Seminar of New England!

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wrapped up my term as Acting Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at UMass Amherst on June 30 — caught my breath and looking back, what a spring it was! A few highlights 🧵

View of the Kinney Center in Amherst MA with its red brick cottage and decorate hedges.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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

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GB-Occc MS 118 - DIAMM

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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

The book cover of John Dunstaple Reading Boethius, showing manuscript page with annotations.

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