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Simon Jackson

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Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2

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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A year on since @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir released its first album! If you haven't listened yet, it's available to stream here: open.spotify.com/artist/17SD2...
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The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A new post over on Substack: Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, and some change-ringing refrains voiceandverse.substack.com/p/the-woods-...
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“The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring”
Echoes, Refrains and Reverberation in Spenser
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
i gain access to the emergency notification system. everyone’s phones scream with a George Herbert poem
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've just signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a new Cambridge Companion to George Herbert - amazingly, there isn't one yet! (Image: Ingrid Fogelvik)
Painting of George Herbert by Ingrid Fogelvik
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A fun (and hot) Wednesday at the Cambridge Honorary Degree ceremony, working with the combined choirs of @peterhousecam.bsky.social and Selwyn, alongside their Director Sarah MacDonald. You can watch the ceremony here: youtu.be/fv893HhGvpU?...
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Cambridge confers honorary degrees to eight luminaries 2026
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My copy of Scintilla (👇) has arrived. I’m delighted to say that new editor @sjjackson32.bsky.social has done a great job. Scintilla remains one of the most stimulating & original literary journals, packed with astute critical commentary, philosophical reflections & fine new poetry #poetrycommunity
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Over on Substack, a new piece on a new piece: all about Cecilia McDowall’s fabulous new setting of Hildegard of Bingen: please read abd share! substack.com/@kapellmeist...
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Simon Jackson (@kapellmeister)
My latest piece, on a new setting of Hildegard of Bingen, bursting into verdure.
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Never was leaf so green": this evening, delighted to be premiering a new anthem by Cecilia McDowall, setting words by Hildegard of Bingen, commissioned to celebrate 40 years since the admission of women to Peterhouse.
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excited to be premiering a new work written for @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir by Cecilia McDowall at Evensong this coming Sunday at 6pm. It has been commissioned as part of our celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Peterhouse, & sets words by Hildegard of Bingen
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It’s taken me a while to write this one up - but please do have a look at my latest piece over on Substack - all about Henry Vaughan and the therapeutic properties of music: open.substack.com/pub/voiceand...
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'A sound mind in a sound body'
Henry Vaughan and Music Therapy
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The new issue of the Vaughan Association’s Scintilla Journal is out. Grateful to new editor @sjjackson32.bsky.social for including one of my poems. This brilliant magazine, praised by Heaney, contains fine articles & poems & can be purchased here: www.amazon.co.uk/Scintilla-28... #poetrycommunity
The front cover of edition 28 of Scintilla. A duck blue background with the words SCINTILLA The Journal of the Vaughan Association, with the issue number 28, and the description, A journal of literary criticism, prose and new poetry in the metaphysical tradition, frames an image of dried brown ferns and silhouettes of swallows and swifts
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’ve recently started as editor of Scintilla, the journal of the Vaughan Association (dedicated to the study of Henry & Thomas Vaughan). Delighted that my first issue is out now, which also includes an article by me (accepted before I became editor!) about Henry, music & medicine amzn.eu/d/08RlZsfK
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Scintilla 28: The Journal of The Vaughan Association: Amazon.co.uk: Jackson, Simon, Sterrett, Joseph, Stansfield, Katherine, Walford Davies, Damian: 9798257790171: Books
Buy Scintilla 28: The Journal of The Vaughan Association by Jackson, Simon, Sterrett, Joseph, Stansfield, Katherine, Walford Davies, Damian (ISBN: 9798257790171) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low...
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I’ve been thinking about sound, space, bats, echolocation, poetry… all sorts of things in fact, over the past few weeks. Some initial musings in my latest post over on Substack. Here’s a little punctuation bat to get you intrigued: /\^•_•^/\ open.substack.com/pub/voiceand...
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Taking Soundings
Some thoughts about sound, space, and poetry (with extra bats)
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Blest pair of Sirens
Milton on words and music
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m playing with Substack! Come and join me!
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
One for Italian speakers out there: wrapping up 2025 with a programme featuring @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's CD on Italian Radio: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/1...
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Primo movimento | S2025 | i Peterhouse Partbooks | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound
i Peterhouse Partbooks - Primo movimento - i Peterhouse Partbooks // Disco NAXOS - 8.574700 / AA.VV. / MUSIC FROM THE PETERHOUS PARTBOOKS / Hugo Williams, Emma Troman, Shawn Li, Organ - The Choir of P...
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Something a bit unusual for the season, from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir disc: Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine re-arranged for Christmas, as heard in Peterhouse Chapel at Christmas in the 1630s open.spotify.com/track/51kurW...
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Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Last year I commissioned Ben Ponniah to write a new setting of Herbert's Christmas poem 'The Shepherds Sing' - the result is simply divine. @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's new recording of it is about to be released this afternoon at 1pm over on youtube: youtu.be/fENaIO5DpIY?...
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The Shepherds Sing, by Ben Ponniah
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Really thrilled to see that @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social have included this carol by James Whitbourn on their latest album from @resonus.bsky.social, which I commissioned back in the dark days of Covid for @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir - do listen: open.spotify.com/track/3DR3HE...
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Our Gold
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 24/09/2025
Look what we have here then.
1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Listening now: really rather liked that new Rutter introit that marries together Herbert's 'The Call' with a Gibbons 'Song 13' (but then I would say that about anything that combines Herbert and Gibbons...)
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Recommended release from MusicWeb International: “well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks" Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr... naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Just received the first review of our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir CD, and it's a cracker: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Echoing Victoria: it was such a privilege to take part in what turned out to be Melvyn's last series of #InOurTime - and it's really flattering to see our episode on George Herbert listed in @thetimes.com top 15 episodes of the show yesterday www.thetimes.com/article/bdea...
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I’ve listened to every episode of In Our Time. These are the 15 best
As Melvyn Bragg bows out after 27 years as host of the erudite BBC Radio 4 show, a superfan recommends some catch-up listening
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code: www.cambridge.org/se/universit...
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Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Inevitable, I suppose, but #InOurTime won't be quite the same again: what a landmark moment. I feel so lucky to have snuck in at the eleventh hour for his final series. All the best to Melvyn on his retirement, & @simontillotson.bsky.social as he steers the ship into new waters with a new presenter
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
And, if you're interested in my thoughts about the experience of performing this weird and wonderful piece of 17thC ecological minimalism (yes - it absolutely has all of those things) you can read my short essay here (& do explore the rest of the site!) bee-inghuman.newcastle.ac.uk/music/perfor...
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Bee-ing human — Music
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🐝🐝🐝 New to the @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Bee-ing Human' book: do watch and share our 7 mins film about Charles Butler's queen bee piping song, recorded in @theul.bsky.social and @peterhousecam.bsky.social with @sjjackson32.bsky.social Magnus Williamson, Richard Wistreich and choir.
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Bee-ing human — Music
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Anna Bishop @revannabishop.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“Church-bels beyond the starres heard” 3-5 Oct: a relaxed weekend of listening, reflecting and learning on the home soil where Herbert was parish priest @sarumcollege.bsky.social with the wonderful Prof Helen Wilcox and the eorge Herbert in Bemerton Group: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course... Book now!
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George Herbert Poetry Weekend - Sarum College
A weekend of reflecting on the poetry of George Herbert through lectures, close readings and  personal sharing.
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I want to share some tracks over the next few days from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir Naxos CD: William Smith’s Responses are well-known, but have you ever heard his incredible festal setting of Psalm 85? I think it’s fabulous: open.spotify.com/track/2hXPpZVH…
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Spotify – Web Player
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Peterhouse, Cambridge @peterhousecam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Out now! Peterhouse Choir's debut album, 'Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks', is released today and available to stream and buy. Find out more: www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news/choirs-...
Album cover for Peterhouse Choir's album: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks
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Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
This is a realy powerful piece. How on earth did we get to where we are now?
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Always proud of the things Peterhouse Choir achieve, but never more so than on days like this, when the Choir's first ever album goes on general release with Naxos. Remarkable music from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel from the 1630s Listen here: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC
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The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Simon Jackson - Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks
Listen to Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks by The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Simon Jackson.
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. That's a pretty nice chord, Thomas:
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
After several years of neglect, I’ve finally got round to updating my academia profile - check it out here: cambridge.academia.edu/SimonJackson
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Simon Jackson - Profile on Academia.edu
https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-simon-jackson
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
On general release later this month: youtu.be/TaJdKily0Iw?... @peterhousecam.bsky.social
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New Releases on Naxos: August 2025 Highlights
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Possibly the last photo of the @leverhulme.ac.uk Bee-ing Human team, as we work to bring our project to conclusion later this year. We will share the url for our project site soon! @viveknityananda.bsky.social @oliviasmith.bsky.social @racheljwillie.bsky.social @sjjackson32.bsky.social
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
So excited for the release of my first disc with the Peterhouse Choir and Naxos - glorious music from 1630s @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel. For release August 22nd. Watch the trailer here: youtu.be/oduIl9eRA0Y?...
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The Peterhouse Partbooks revealed: treasures of English sacred choral music
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Something for May Week from the Choir of @peterhousecam.bsky.social youtu.be/3UVoioiV_mE
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Pulchra es — Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Now available in a much more affordable format! Today's the publication day for the paperback edition of /George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture/ @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Bee-ing Human: an adventure in digital editing" Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...
Frontispiece of the 1623 edition of Charles Butler's "Feminine Monarchy" featuring bees on honeycomb: the bee at the top and in the middle wears a crown to represent her regal status. 

The inscription around the beehive reads: "Solertia et labore" (skill/shrewdness & labour) and "Socordium Luimus" (For idleness we atone)

The caption below reads: "Miraris Arte conditas mira domos, Opesq regales in his reconditas? SOLERTIA ET LABORE fiunt omnia" 

Do you marvel at the wonderful houses built by art, and the royal riches hidden within? All things are made by skill and labour.
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Rehearsing Charles Butler’s bee song with @sjjackson32.bsky.social and @Peterhouse_Cam choir. We will share the film soon. @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Bee-ing Human.
Peterhouse chapel with Simon Jackson and friends
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Part of a wonderful day yesterday workshopping and recording Charles Butler's Bee Song with a consort of singers from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir with Richard Wistreich and Magnus Williamson - all masterminded by @jennyrichards.bsky.social as part of her Bee-ing Human @leverhulme.ac.uk project
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
What emotions is this bee expressing? Drawing on flyleaf of 1623 copy of Butler's bee book. Thanks @theul.bsky.social.
Drawing of expressive bee in 1623 copy of Charles Butler’s bee book.
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden
A member of the UL's Conservation team planting a seeding in a flower bed.A paper bag full of seeds ready to be planted.Little seedlings growing in the courtyard of the UL. We see a wooden plant label that says: "The Dye Garden".
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Starting the new term with a little filming project with Peterhouse Choir in the stunning Peterhouse Deer Park
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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
One of the best poems in the English language about this day #GoodFriday #GoodFriday2025 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44103/...
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Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward
Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is, And as the other Spheares, by being growne Subject to forraigne motion, lose their owne, And being by others h...
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