Katie Bank

Intermedial Afterlives of the Arma Christi in Orlando Gibbons’s ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’ ABSTRACT. We propose that Orlando Gibbons’s consort anthem ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’ is linked to a wider phenomenon in visual culture surrounding t

Writing about music close to your heart can be a joy. Writing about music close to your heart with one of your amazing pals is 100x better.

Katie Bank, Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Intermedial Afterlives of the Arma Christi in Orlando Gibbons’s ‘See, See the Word is Incarnate’, Music and Letters

In this #SRSlyGood SRS Book Series interview, we talk to @spparkle.bsky.social and reflect on her "Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music" (2021). We discuss music’s affective power and the importance of understanding history through physical experience. www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-ser...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Eglantine Table at Hardwick Hall Ellie Chan visits Hardwick Hall in search of a fascinating relic of Tudor musical culture.

Agonising over what to listen to over your haggis this evening? Never fear! I’m on Radio 3 tonight talking about one of the most incredible musical-visual relics of the Tudor era (complete with singing and top banter with @spparkle.bsky.social and Liz Waring)! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The cover of a book. Text reads TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE, the image shows black embroidery of plants and animals on a stained cream linen background.

Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here
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CfP: ‘Reasons to Sing’: Singing, spirituality, and the search for meaning

We want this event to be really interdisciplinary - do spread the word.

www.canbeautysavetheworld.com/singing if this is too tiny to read.

On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges.

The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.

Poster for conference on beauty with mountains and QR code. Www.canbeautysavetheworld.com

Looking forward to discussing the ways people thought about the power of music in early modern England with these impressive folk.

Win up to £1250 for your essay on travel and/or cultural exchange www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... (in spite of the outdated link summary)

A parent can dream… (or in this case, not).

Do say hello if you’re at @srsrensoc.bsky.social Bristol this week! @bhamcrems.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to present at this event a few days ago - my first academic paper delivered 📄😅

Thank you @spparkle.bsky.social and Peter Auger for organising, to the other presenters for some terrific papers, and to those who listened to me and asked questions - very much appreciated!

@crems-york.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social @bhamcrems.bsky.social @emeccwarwick.bsky.social ??

Popular recreations in Early Modern England Insights into current research into recreational materials and activities in early modern England.

Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free!

www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Last few days to get in your abstracts! Popular Recreations in Early Modern England with keynote by Prof Christopher Marsh!

www.katiebankmusic.com/post/call-fo...

Thanks to the SRS for their contribution to our project via their Public Engagement Grant scheme! www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz....

My sixteenth-century nuns knew a thing or two about disease and war and terror. This miniature prayer is rather lovely and poignant. #nuntastic

A bell pepper in the fetal position

Same, little pepper, same

Project Summary: Byrd's 'Reasons to Sing' In 2023, we celebrated the quatercentenary of English renaissance composer William Byrd. Thanks to generous grants from Arts Council England and the Stile Antico Foundation (with additional support fr...

The ByrdCentral website will be going soon. As our last farewell, we wanted to share with you some stats from our education outreach project on the life and music of William Byrd, 'Reasons to Sing'

🎊 www.byrdcentral.com/post/project...

Thank you for following us on our ByrdNyrd journey!

Yayyyyy.

fingernails painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.

a small ceramic sherd with a stylized geometric pattern in blue and white

thumbnail painted blue and white with a stylized geometric motif. The background is a diffuse blue, green, and pink fabric.

🏺 #maniarchaeology inspired by this 19th c. transfer-printed whiteware with spearhead band, excavated at Mount Vernon, image courtesy DAACS.

Today's office.
Rehearsing Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at #bostonmanorhouse
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#earlymodern #earlymusic
@beyondshakes.bsky.social @fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social

I guess most grant proposals work out like this

Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!

Christopher Marsh's keynote is called ‘The matter of ballads (and why ballads matter)’ - join us!

Toolkits Toolkits full of useful tips and tricks to help you put on a successful public engagement event or activity

We've recently updated our Public Engagement Toolkits. Our free, downloadable PDF guides are full of useful ideas and tips for putting on a successful #PublicEngagement event.

Toolkit topics include inclusion, partnerships, formats, budget, audiences and more!

I met with a face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake, and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much ashamed.

Logo of Australian National University's School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (within which sits the Centre for Early Modern Studies)

Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

See it if you can. It was super fun.

I’m so sorry. Welcome to the world where one has to not get the best rate and spend more of our meagre budgets just to satisfy the requirements even if the same place is on another site for less!

Excellent.