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Martin Clarke

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Professor of Music, The Open University. Interested in music and Christianity in C18th-19th Britain, and Welsh music history. Co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Cambridge University Press). Organist. Crime fiction reader. Cricket watcher.

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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
1. Read the emails. 2. Look on the website.
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Dr Christine Plastow @chrissieplastow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's that time of year again!
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We're hiring a Senior Library Manager to lead the University's records management service, driving modern recordkeeping practices & helping ensure information is managed effectively across the University. For more details and to apply 👉 ow.ly/iMNN50ZgQ1t Closing date: 12 July #LibraryJobs
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OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🎶 What can music reveal about connections between communities, cultures and social spaces? Byron Dueck discusses his research with xylophone musicians in Cameroon, exploring how musical traditions connect celebrations, religious life & popular culture. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/C6w8I917Jig?...
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There's still time to apply for the Margaret Wooder Studentships to cover tuition fees for MA Music. To apply, send the following to FASS-ArtsHum-Music@open.ac.uk by 30 June 2026: • Completed application form (link in bio) • CV of no more than two pages • Latest degree certificate or transcript
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This week's listen: Lili Boulanger - Psalm 24 "La terre appartient à l'Éternel"(1916). Boulanger was the first woman to win the Grand Prix de Rome, France's most prestigious composition prize; a remarkable achievement at any time, let alone in 1913.
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Are you dreaming of studying music at Masters level but worried about the cost? The Margaret Wooder Studentships could cover your full tuition fees for our MA Music programme. ✅ Part One fees fully funded ✅ Part Two fees funded on passing Part One at merit or distinction level
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This week we're inviting you to notice how music lives in time with Beethoven, Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 (1825). When it premiered, critics called it "incomprehensible". Today it's considered one of his greatest achievements.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We're advertising for an ethnomusicologist to join us at The Open University on a 13-month, 30-hours per week contract, starting from 1 September this year. See full details at jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer... and please encourage anyone who might be interested and suitably qualified to apply.
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Lecturer in Music
Lecturer in Music
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This week's listen: It's Only a Paper Moon, as performed by Nat King Cole. Although you might be more familiar with Ella Fitz Gerald’s rendition because it was used in the 1990s for a Galaxy chocolate advert!
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Music Computing job opportunity with colleagues in the STEM faculty at the OU: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN260/r... #AcademicJobs
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Research Associate in Music Computing at The Open University
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Please share with anyone for whom these scholarships might enabled access to higher education: Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund Carers’ Scholarships Black Students’ Support Fund Sanctuary Scholarships Care Experienced Scholarship www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/a... #HigherEducation #scholarships
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The Open University
Applications are now open for people from traditionally underserved backgrounds who could benefit from the truly life-changing opportunity to study for free at The Open University.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Very pleased that my new edition of John Frederick Lampe and Jonathan Battishill's settings of Charles Wesley is now available from A-R Editions. www.areditions.com/early-method...
Book cover with text: Early Methodist Hymns for Solo Voice and Continuo: Settings by John Frederick Lampe and Jonathan Battishill of Hymn Texts by Charles Wesley. Edited by Martin V. Clarke. A-R Editions, Inc.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Recordings of all the hymns are also available on Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/119...
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A Collection of Hymns (1742): The first Methodist tune-book on Vimeo
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Pleased to share that my reconstructed edition of the first Methodist tune book, The Foundery Collection (1742) is now available via IMSLP, along with recordings of all the hymns made by baritone, Jon Stainsby. #Methodist #hymns #AcademicSky imslp.org/wiki/A_Colle...
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A Collection of Tunes (Wesley, John) - IMSLP
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Great to see this published! All research articles in Nineteenth-Century Music Review are open access. #musicology
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Pleased that a new issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, which I co-edit with @rosemarygolding.bsky.social, has just been published. It's a themed issue on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #musicology
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Latest issue | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Nineteenth-Century Music Review
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Really great to see the success of one of our OU Music PhD graduates! For more on studying for a PhD at the OU see fass.open.ac.uk/music/postgr...
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The Open University
Our current research students are engaged in a range of interdisciplinary research areas such as historical and contemporary musicology, music education, ethnomusicology, music and gender and the soci...
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Chris Tomlin - Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
YouTube video by ChrisTomlinVEVO
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Another is this composite version from singers around the globe, curated by The Normal Christian Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7p...
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50 Countries Sing Amazing Grace ALL OVER the WORLD
YouTube video by The Normal Christian Life
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Andrea Bocelli's recording, made in Milan during the Covid-19 lockdowns, is one of several uses of this hymn during the pandemic explored in the book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXw...
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Andrea Bocelli - Amazing Grace: Music For Hope (Live From Duomo di Milano)
YouTube video by Andrea Bocelli
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Next, Chris Tomlin's version, "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)", associated with the 2006 film Amazing Grace, focused on the life of William Wilberforce.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
And one of several German version... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb5G...
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Amazing Grace in Deutsch - Lobpreislieder - Kirchenlieder - Gospelsongs - Spirituals
YouTube video by Angelika Hein Gospel Singer
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Next, one of several Portuguese translations examined in the book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejoA...
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Preciosa Graça - DVD Escolhi - Coral Jovem de Caxias do Sul
YouTube video by CJ Caxias
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Now, one of the recordings that did so much to re-popularize the hymn in the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drti...
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Amazing Grace
YouTube video by The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Topic
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Now, for something completely different, Howard Levy's extraordinary virtuosity in this version for harmonica. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmL4...
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Amazing Grace on Harmonica - Howard Levy
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Next, President Barack Obama's use of the hymn as part of his funeral eulogy for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN05...
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President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
First up, Aretha Franklin's recording from her 1972 album Amazing Grace www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGN6...
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Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Aretha Franklin
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Very pleased to have submitted the corrected proofs for a co-edited volume "Amazing Grace at 250: Global Heritage and Contested Legacies", which will be out this summer. Short thread follows featuring just a few of the many versions discussed in the book. #AcademicSky #musicology
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My wonderful former PhD student Dr Chris Grey has co-organised this conference on Thomism, Creativity and the Arts: Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, which takes place on 1 July in Oxford. #AcademicSky #musicology www.mbit.cam.ac.uk/events/event...
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Thomism, Creativity and the Arts: Jacques and Raïssa Maritain - Margaret Beaufort Institute
Building on last year’s landmark conference on the lives and legacy of Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, this exciting collaborative day symposium draws together philosophers, theologians, musicians, poets...
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Something about the support they offer for professional development.
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rosemarygolding.bsky.social @rosemarygolding.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I was privileged to lead development of our distance-learning, part-time, international MA in Music, which has been really successful this year. We're now open for registration for September starts and look forward to welcoming our next cohort of students www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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MA in Music | Open University | F99
The focus is on the methods of music research and the digital humanities to develop your critical thinking and research skills relevant to your music interests.<br />&nbsp;
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE
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Introducing Music Research (Free course trailer)
YouTube video by OpenLearn from The Open University
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Big thanks and congratulations to @izzygthomas.bsky.social and co for organising such a great event!
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Really stimulating couple of days at this conference. Enjoyed presenting a paper on Max Boyce. @royalmusical.bsky.social #AcademicSky #musicology
Cover of conference programme for Everyday Music Scenes: Pubs, Clubs and 'Stutes, Newcastle University, 14-15 April 2025. Image of noticeboard bearing a sign reading No Dancing Allowed In Heavy Boots.
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Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...
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Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Do you have a UK music degree? Would you be willing to share your career story, whether in or outside of music? A student intern is building a website to highlight where music degrees can lead. Please do get in touch if you could contribute, or share with anyone you know. Many thanks! #musicology
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'm sorry. I wish I had concrete suggestions to offer here. It's a reflection of the sector, not of you and your work. I know that doesn't change anything in practical terms.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks! Loved the show. It's both really funny and utterly fascinating to hear so many people singing these songs at the tops of their voices. I've now bought a secondhand copy of Alleluya.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This contains two sets of themed essays on opera, many of which are available open access. #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #Musicology
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Having written the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology entry on Assembly Bangers, I'm very much looking forward to @jamesbpartridge.bsky.social live show the Glasshouse, Gateshead tonight. Should I bring this along? #AssemblyBangers
Cover of BBC Come and Praise 2 hymnal for schools
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology
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East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music
Title: East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music Subject Classification:  Arts, Race and Racism, Equality Diversity Inclusion   BIC Classification: AB, JFSL, JH BISAC Classification: SOC...
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Grateful to the marvellous people @alcs.co.uk!
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Laura Hamer @drlaurahamer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social. You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core
Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Dr Martin Clarke, Dr Rosemary Golding
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Really looking forward to this!
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Added a couple of new videos I recorded to my occasional YouTube playlist 'Methodist Pipe Organs'. The newest were recorded in Caerphilly, on the organ where I had my first lessons some 30 years ago. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Cymru #LiveMusic #PipeOrgan
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Methodist pipe organs - YouTube
Recordings of pipe organs in Methodist churches
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Open University Music Department @oumusic.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November. The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky
Album cover for The Polyphonic Cornett. Text reads The Polyphonic Cornett. Jamie Savan: Cornett. James Dooley: Electronics. Music by Martyn Harry, Timothy Roberts, Benjamin Tassie, Johann Walter.
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
PhD studentship with the good people down the corridor in the OU's Art History department. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMC556/a... #PhD #HigherEducation #AcademicSky
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Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded PhD Studentship at The Open University
Explore a Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded PhD Studentship on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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Martin Clarke @mvclarke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Back from leave today to the inevitable deluge of emails, but good to find among them things relating to two forthcoming co-edited volumes: one on Amazing Grace at 250, and the other, with @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social, on the legacy of Isaac Watts. #AcademicSky #ResearchSky
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