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Musicologist. Views are my own. Dutch, formerly in the UK, now in Germany. Academic things: smb.academia.edu/MartenNoorduin email: firstnamelastname at gmaildotcom

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m doing an AMA on my new book on American pianists around 1900, hosted by the excellent people from AskHistorians on Reddit. Have a look and join the conversation: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library! consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...
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Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just because a historical source that reports on something, that doesn’t mean that that thing actually happened. You’d be surprised how many historians forget that - and then email me.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Let’s not forget the people studying Russian music, they did okay too! But yes, it was a golden era.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks! I would add: Erica Buurman (San Jose), John Wilson (Vienna), Matthew Pilcher and Siân Derry (Birmingham), and Francesco Fontanelli (Berlin).
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Christine Siegert, the head of the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, passed away on 3 August. 😥 The end of an era! www.beethoven.de/de/news/view...
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Das Beethoven-Haus trauert um Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert
Das Beethoven-Haus trauert um Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What a bargain: 50% off the pre-order my book, American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900, in e-book form! Published on 15 September; order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/america...
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American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900
The story of the grand tours to Germany and Austria that many American pianists undertook during the Golden Age of the Piano and the anti-American sentiments they encountered.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Oxford is embracing AI. EarlyMuse just published a big report about AI and music that points to many of the dangers and opportunities of this technology: zenodo.org/records/2063...
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Musicology and artificial intelligence
This report provides an overview of Artificial Intelligence in European musicological research, addressed to musicologists, librarians, archivists, curators, educators, research-policy officers, infra...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Anti-Americanism, obviously. I wonder why correcting the proof copies is so much work …. 🙄
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My new book, American Pianists and Anti-Americsnism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900, has a website now. Publication date is 15 September. If you want me to come and talk about it once it is published, do please get in touch soon: the last three months of the year are already quite full!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Looking forward to this wonderful event, which starts in a couple of hours and goes on until Monday night!
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Thorsten Hindrichs @thhindrichs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Sad news @ #musicology: Bonnie J. Blackburn has passed away 😢
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I may have come across them …. in fact, I listed them all here, along with your entire output. zenodo.org/records/6395...
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Beethoven's Indications of Tempo and Expression
Database: Beethoven’s Indications of Tempo and Expression This data set was created during 2012-2016 as a tool for my doctorate research on Beethoven’s tempo indications at the University of Mancheste...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Expand…
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
*is.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Fair enough! We will try and organise something closer to you. Accessibility important!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
You got something on elsewhere?
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
On 28 March, I will be in London giving a paper at the Beethoven Summit at the Admiral’s House in Greenwich. Happy to be in the company of such great scholars! And Beethovenians, do come along! www.beethovensummit.org/schedule
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SCHEDULE | Beethoven Summit
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
@dbellingradt.bsky.social Surely you are aware of this important contribution to the literature: www.youtube.com/shorts/EGi7h...
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Dangerously Lemon Pie (1990)
YouTube video by B. Dylan Hollis
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Wait, what? Did life give you lemonade and now you are trying to figure out the history of this drink? I really need to read up in this....
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If you are a historian of any kind, take the time to read this thread and the responses. And follow @dbellingradt.bsky.social - he reliably has threads like these.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
All of this is to say that there is a strong incentive these days to avoid the hard work of interpreting sources, and instead people like having 'the sources speak for themselves'. This has been a longstanding problem in amateur history (in music: HIP!) but now it is spreading everywhere.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We've been here before: when the Beethoven-Haus started to publish the conversation books in the 1970s and claimed to have direct access to Beethoven's thinking. Nice advertising slogan, but sources need to be treated complexly. People lie, overstate, joke, or even falsify. We risk losing context...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
So thank you, anonymous Reader, for taking the time and effort. I obviously don't know who you are, but hope that you have many who follow in your footsteps. If you ever identify yourself at a conference or a talk, drinks are on me!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
For all the talk about the use of technology in scholarship, the thing that is really indispensable is just having smart readers who can spend weeks reading and thinking about what is particularly good about a manuscript and how to improve it. There just isn't an alternative to close reading.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very happy to have received the final reader report for my upcoming book on American pianists in Berlin, Weimar, and Vienna around 1900. Phrases like " a tour-de-force of meticulous, careful analysis of primary sources" got thrown around, while also identifying a couple of traps that I could avoid.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
That is really insane. Have you considered submitting it to a different programme?
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Oh my, that’s terrible. Did they at least give a reason?
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Prof. Chris Kremmydas @chriskremmydas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Sad news out of Nottingham Uni: "world-leading" but suspending (i.e. closing for now) music and modern languages programmes? Surely not. I hope they reconsider. Please sign this petition protesting the closure of the music programmes: c.org/k884FyfWPt
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We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I am so looking forward to waking up to a chorus international political commentaters and their no doubt terrible takes on the Dutch election results.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
See particularly that one James Bond film ….
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Homesick now.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Out now: my full issue of NCMR on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century! Thanks to all of the authors and my co-editor Annelies Andries for their amazing work! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Professor Martin Clarke, Professor Rosemary Golding
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I am particularly pleased that you report just that, 'conversations'. Sometimes, discussions about this can look like decrees are being given out from on high, particularly if you are not part of the discussion. It is very important to show the process of consensus forming, if there is a consensus.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I used to see a lot more threads like this one back in the other place. This is a super helpful and ongoing summary of a discussion that affects all in academia, whether you are junior, mid-career, or a senior academic. Recommended!👇👇👇
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Depending on when you think you can get it done, it might be worth considering publishing it with B&B as a series. Might be worth having a chat/think about that....
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
That many words in “months”? Blimey, I am finishing a book right now of the same length which took me three years….
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
If you are interested in research into early recordings, check out our blog reporting on the STSM hosted by @evamoreda.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow in June 2025! earlymuse.eu/publications...
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Early Music on Early Recordings: Toward a Sustainable, Co-Created Database - EarlyMuse
Historical musicology has traditionally privileged written items—such as scores, manuscripts, and personal correspondence—as its primary sources, while sound recordings have been relatively overlooked...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Oh no!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
One day I will write an article about all the ways my name has been misspelled in (usually positive) reviews.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Which ones are you looking for? Newspapers.com has worked wonders for me...
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The past: read all about it.
The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If you don’t know it already, you should try this one from Kenji. It’s a bit of work, but it gets pretty close to meat while being vegan. www.seriouseats.com/vegetables-w...
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Vegetable Wellington: The Ultimate Vegan Plant-Based Holiday Roast
This vegan roast is so pretty, so mouth-watering, so packed with flavor and texture that even the hardcore carnivores at the table will make room on their plate for a slice, perhaps even instead of th...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Congratulations! Looking forward to reading this!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Uiteraard Pluk van de Petteflet, een van Annie M. G. Schmidt's absolute meesterwerken. De Lispeltuut, de Krullevaar, Zaza de Kakkerlak, Langhors, Duizeltje de Eekhoorn, de Stampertjes, de Heen-en-Weerwolf en de andere fantastische vondsten uit dit boek staan me nog tot vandaag bij.
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Thank you!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Since the news is out now anyway, I am very happy to share that I have been awarded a large research grant from the @dfg.de for my research project 'The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869'. See gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje...
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DFG - GEPRIS - The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869
Musicological scholarship has long detected a substantial gap between current and nineteenth-century performances of music. One important reason for this ...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Pfff blogs. I have (had?) a whole YouTube channel dedicated to me 🤓 but best of luck!
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
NEW Blogpost: at the University of Valencia, six musicologists from all over Europe met to discuss the position of historical musicology in higher education. Have a look!
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Reflecting on Historical Musicology in European Higher Music Education Institutions: A Collaborative Endeavour by Aleksandra Pister, Christophe Levaux, Ferran Escrivà Llorca, Gareth Balch, Marianna Si...
At the invitation of Ferran Escrivà Llorca (Universitat de València), we recently took part in a collaborative research initiative titled “Historical Musicology in European HMEIs: Institutional Framew...
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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A difficult week, as I returned to Manchester for the memorial of my friend and to place a plaque in his memory, co-written by his loved ones, in the concert hall that he frequently visited. Now 7 days in Naples for an entirely different kind of co-writing: a text on artistic research for EarlyMuse.
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