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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We're at the #edinburghfringe next month with our programme of gorgeous, largely forgotten arias from 1650's Venice, using two of @friendsofstcecilia.bsky.social ORIGINAL 16th and 17th century harpsichords! Tickets via the @edfringe.bsky.social website: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@musicaantica.bsky.social 's next concert coming up on Saturday - lovely music, and only £2-£10 a ticket (though almost sold out)!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Looking forward to our Guidonian Hand workshop next week! Learn how to use it, and why it's important when singing and studying music fom 1200-1700. Tickets in 1st comment! #se16 #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

That's a wrap on our February tour - next stop: the album launch! #baroque #earlymusic #se16 #rotherhithe

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We start touring a beautiful programme of rarely-heard (and unheard since 1650s) music from Venice in just over two weeks. If you're near Oxford, Durham, Sheffield or London, take a look at our website! #sheffield #durham #oxford #opera #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And we're live! A tour of music from 17th century Venice and four programmes of beautiful music by Rameau, Binchois, Purcell, Strozzi, Bembo & the Caccini sisters make up Musica Antica Rotherhithe's 10th anniversary season. Tickets via our website! #se16 #rotherhithe #earlymusic #classicalmusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Gorgeous 17th century house going to ruin on the Three Peaks trail today. Original glass in the windows??

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The gentrification of Plumstead begins

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ridiculous new toy given what I actually need is a new harpsichord, but very grateful to Glenn Braun, who makes instruments that are usually wholly unaffordable accessible - in this case a lira da braccio, one of the go-to instruments for self-accompanied singing in the 15th century!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Circe leaves the room when she hears most music, but apparently loves ars nova keyboard intabulations

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

That might be because I’m writing about Renaissance gender bias

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Among many the bizzarre (some terrifying) questions people apparently needed answers to in 1474: ‘why it is better to have a thick neck than a thin one’.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The result of years of work building an accessible, affordable concert series, without feeling the need to stick to ‘the canon’ of Bach and Handel to draw an audience.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Huascar gets crushed by a rock (ball of paper)

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Stopped to have a chat with a lady handing out postcards for a new church on the way to play the organ this morning. Asking her about it, it transpired that this should actually read ‘A church for people who believe women shouldn’t be in any position of authority, anywhere, ever’.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Four years on from Sarah Everard’s murder. We often leave flowers on Clapham Common at this time of year, but this is the first time someone’s memorialised all the women who’ve had their lives taken in similar circumstances since.

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Lovely new stained glass for Holy Trinity this morning, courtesy of Jonathan Cooke. I have the valley of the shadow of death behind me at the organ, not entirely sure what point that’s making

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Double theorbo today In Rotherhithe!

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Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A few weeks until @musicaantica.bsky.social’s final concert of the year! Tickets for as little as £2, as ever. musicaantica.org.uk #se16 #earlymusic #rotherhithe

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