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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We are very pleased to announce the two-day conference ‘Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350: International Conference of the European Research Council Project BROKENSONG’ (Maynooth University, 15-16 May 2026). @muahi.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i...

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The second position with #ERC-BROKENSONG is for a Research assistant/Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in statistical image processing/multispectral image processing. Deadline Mar 29, 2026. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#ERC-BROKENSONG at the En plein air conference in Siena! Fascinating conference and especially great panel from the #ERC-SOUNDSPACE panel! @muahi.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

CFP deadline is extended to October 24, 2025. The link has all the details!

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

CFP!! Come to beautiful @maynoothuniversity.ie for the #BROKENSONG conference! 14-16 May 2026: 'Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350'. CFP deadline 30 Sept 2025. More info and the full CFP: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i... @erc.europa.eu

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In early June, Karen traveled to London where #BROKENSONG convened a very productive pre-MEC workshop to move forward on encoding pre-mensural notation in MEI - thanks to all involved! She also presented a paper at the 2025 MEC conference #music-encoding ‪@music-encoding.bsky.social‬

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Later in May Karen and Johanna travelled to the amazing Centre for Manuscript Studies @uni-hamburg.de to learn multispectral imaging processing techniques and best practices. We are very excited to start the MSI processing of BROKENSONG's images!! #MSI #manuscripts

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#BROKENSONG has had a busy month. In May the team traveled to the U. of Cambridge for a joint workshop with the #ERC-BENEDICAMUS project at beautiful St John's, & several intensive meetings with experts in plainchant, palaeography, bookbinding & multispectral imaging. A productive 5 days!

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library. #medievalbluesky @erc.europa.eu @worcestercathedral.bsky.social

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

And you'd also be working side-by-side with members of the #ERC #brokensong team!

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Job alert!! Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

A screenshot of a catalogue entry from the Cambridge University Library illuminated manuscript catalogue. I have overlaid this with my annotations. Here I will describe the original text and then my annotation on it, which I will precede with the word, NOTE. It goes like this:
178. Note: number of the manuscript as it appears in this catalogue
Add. 4086. Note: Shelfmark
see also Pl. LIX. Note: "plate" means an image, usually in color, elsewhere in the catalogue
Horae. Note: Contents or title of the text in this manuscript, in this case a book of hours
Use of Sarum. Note: Use refers to the rites as practiced ina certain region; here Salisbury (Sarum is Latin)
England, London. Note: place where the manuscript was made
S. xiv with a superscript 4/4. Note: S means century from Latin for saeculum; xiv is the 14th century; and 4/4 means the fourth quarter of the century. This whole thing means the manuscript was made in the fourth quarter of the 14th century.
Parchment. Note: the writing support (what the pages are made of)
ii + 121 + 1 fols. Note: this manuscript starts with two flyleaves, has 121 folios, and ends with 1 endleaf.
165 x 122 mm (133 x 90 mm). Note: these two separate measurements refer, respectively, to the size of the folios and the dimensions of the area on each ruled for text.
ruled in red ink, below top line. Note: below top line is a method for determining whether a manuscript was copied before or after c.1220.
rubrics, catchwords, 2o folio ipse est. Note; Secundo folio means the first words on the second folio of the manuscript, often the way a manuscript was catalogued in the Middle Ages.

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Karen Desmond @karendesmond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Delighted to be giving a talk today at the #DCU musicology seminar series and introducing my #ERC BROKENSONG project!

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Deadline fast approaching!! Apply by February 25: spread the word...

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Come join us! We're hiring a new senior postdoc for the #BROKENSONG project. Closing date Feb 25, 205. Background in computational musicology #DH, computer science, AI, and/or mathematics/statistics. Full details and a link to the job posting here: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

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Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, Music - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 386975

The candidate should have several years of demonstrated programming experience, preferably post PhD, in relevant programming ...

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Karen Desmond @karendesmond.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Brilliant to be able to combine my BL manuscripts visit, in preparation for the paper I’ll give at the upcoming #ND ‘Leading Women’ conference (isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...), with a visit to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ’Medieval Women’ exhibition!

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Members of #BROKENSONG are in beautiful York and London this week, working at the York Minster Library, the British Library, The London Archives, and the National Archives. #medievalbluesky (literally)

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Prof. Karen Desmond will be presenting a paper at this fabulous conference on Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities hosted by Notre Dame London March 8-9, 2025: isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

PhD student on the #Brokensong project at The SMI/ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference! @sminews1.bsky.social On January 16th, Inês Trindade presented her research ‘The Veneration of Saint Scholastica in the British Isles: The Worcester Gradual F. 160 as Case-Study’, at @tcddublin.bsky.social

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Prof Karen Desmond (@maynoothuni.bsky.social) will give a talk tomorrow afternoon at University College Dublin @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Research Seminar Series introducing the #brokensong project

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Brilliant inaugural lecture by Prof Karen Desmond @brokensong2023.bsky.social (Maynooth Music) in @maynoothuni.bsky.social this afternoon: manuscripts, fragmentary music, multispectral imaging, musical reconstruction - what more can one want?

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Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth @muahi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@maynoothuni.bsky.social’s amazing Professor Karen Desmond talking about her @brokensong2023.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu project this evening

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

@brokensong2023.bsky.social Prof. Karen Desmond's inaugural professorial lecture at Maynooth this afternoon was one of the most interesting & inspirational lectures I have ever heard. Fragments & music from medieval England brought alive in modern Ireland. #ERC #medievalsky

Prof. Karen Desmond on the right delivering her inaugural professorial lecture at Maynooth University. Most of the centre and left of the picture is taken up with a PowerPoint slide showing fragmentary manuscripts of polyphonic music from medieval England, which are the centre of Prof. Desmond's project.

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BROKENSONG @brokensong2023.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

BROKENSONG has a website! ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/

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