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#ERC-BROKENSONG at the En plein air conference in Siena! Fascinating conference and especially great panel from the #ERC-SOUNDSPACE panel! @muahi.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

CFP deadline is extended to October 24, 2025. The link has all the details!

CFP!! Come to beautiful
@maynoothuniversity.ie
for the #BROKENSONG conference! 14-16 May 2026: 'Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350'. CFP deadline 30 Sept 2025. More info and the full CFP: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i...
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In early June, Karen traveled to London where #BROKENSONG convened a very productive pre-MEC workshop to move forward on encoding pre-mensural notation in MEI - thanks to all involved! She also presented a paper at the 2025 MEC conference #music-encoding ‪@music-encoding.bsky.social‬

Later in May Karen and Johanna travelled to the amazing Centre for Manuscript Studies @uni-hamburg.de to learn multispectral imaging processing techniques and best practices. We are very excited to start the MSI processing of BROKENSONG's images!! #MSI #manuscripts

#BROKENSONG has had a busy month. In May the team traveled to the U. of Cambridge for a joint workshop with the #ERC-BENEDICAMUS project at beautiful St John's, & several intensive meetings with experts in plainchant, palaeography, bookbinding & multispectral imaging. A productive 5 days!

This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library.
#medievalbluesky
@erc.europa.eu
@worcestercathedral.bsky.social

And you'd also be working side-by-side with members of the #ERC #brokensong team!

Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.

Job alert!!
Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details.
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A screenshot of a catalogue entry from the Cambridge University Library illuminated manuscript catalogue. I have overlaid this with my annotations. Here I will describe the original text and then my annotation on it, which I will precede with the word, NOTE. It goes like this: 178. Note: number of the manuscript as it appears in this catalogue Add. 4086. Note: Shelfmark see also Pl. LIX. Note: "plate" means an image, usually in color, elsewhere in the catalogue Horae. Note: Contents or title of the text in this manuscript, in this case a book of hours Use of Sarum. Note: Use refers to the rites as practiced ina certain region; here Salisbury (Sarum is Latin) England, London. Note: place where the manuscript was made S. xiv with a superscript 4/4. Note: S means century from Latin for saeculum; xiv is the 14th century; and 4/4 means the fourth quarter of the century. This whole thing means the manuscript was made in the fourth quarter of the 14th century. Parchment. Note: the writing support (what the pages are made of) ii + 121 + 1 fols. Note: this manuscript starts with two flyleaves, has 121 folios, and ends with 1 endleaf. 165 x 122 mm (133 x 90 mm). Note: these two separate measurements refer, respectively, to the size of the folios and the dimensions of the area on each ruled for text. ruled in red ink, below top line. Note: below top line is a method for determining whether a manuscript was copied before or after c.1220. rubrics, catchwords, 2o folio ipse est. Note; Secundo folio means the first words on the second folio of the manuscript, often the way a manuscript was catalogued in the Middle Ages.

Getting ready to teach my medieval manuscripts class this semester. First week of class we learn...the beautiful, condensed language of catalogue entries. I made this annotated graphic of one to show everything we learn from this brief entry.

Delighted to be giving a talk today at the #DCU musicology seminar series and introducing my #ERC BROKENSONG project!

Deadline fast approaching!! Apply by February 25: spread the word...

Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, Music - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 386975 The candidate should have several years of demonstrated programming experience, preferably post PhD, in relevant programming ...

Come join us! We're hiring a new senior postdoc for the #BROKENSONG project. Closing date Feb 25, 205. Background in computational musicology #DH, computer science, AI, and/or mathematics/statistics. Full details and a link to the job posting here: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Brilliant to be able to combine my BL manuscripts visit, in preparation for the paper I’ll give at the upcoming #ND ‘Leading Women’ conference (isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...), with a visit to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ’Medieval Women’ exhibition!

York Minster

York Minster Library

York Minster

St Pancras, London

Members of #BROKENSONG are in beautiful York and London this week, working at the York Minster Library, the British Library, The London Archives, and the National Archives. #medievalbluesky (literally)

And here's the schedule: isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

Prof. Karen Desmond will be presenting a paper at this fabulous conference on Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities hosted by Notre Dame London March 8-9, 2025: isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...

PhD student on the #Brokensong project at The SMI/ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference! @sminews1.bsky.social

On January 16th, Inês Trindade presented her research ‘The Veneration of Saint Scholastica in the British Isles: The Worcester Gradual F. 160 as Case-Study’, at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Prof Karen Desmond (@maynoothuni.bsky.social) will give a talk tomorrow afternoon at University College Dublin @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Research Seminar Series introducing the #brokensong project

Prof Karen Desmond delivers Inaugural Lecture on medieval music Prof Karen Desmond, an internationally recognised scholar in medieval musicology, delivered her inaugural lecture at Maynooth University, titled "Medieval Parchment Fragments and Musical

Inaugural lecture's focus is Prof Desmond's research on medieval music fragments & music reconstruction and the #Brokensong project at @maynoothuni.bsky.social #medievalsky: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Thanks ! Such a wonderful community !

Brilliant inaugural lecture by Prof Karen Desmond @brokensong2023.bsky.social (Maynooth Music) in @maynoothuni.bsky.social this afternoon: manuscripts, fragmentary music, multispectral imaging, musical reconstruction - what more can one want?

@maynoothuni.bsky.social’s amazing Professor Karen Desmond talking about her @brokensong2023.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu project this evening

Thanks! And such a wonderful audience and question time!

Prof. Karen Desmond on the right delivering her inaugural professorial lecture at Maynooth University. Most of the centre and left of the picture is taken up with a PowerPoint slide showing fragmentary manuscripts of polyphonic music from medieval England, which are the centre of Prof. Desmond's project.

@brokensong2023.bsky.social Prof. Karen Desmond's inaugural professorial lecture at Maynooth this afternoon was one of the most interesting & inspirational lectures I have ever heard. Fragments & music from medieval England brought alive in modern Ireland. #ERC #medievalsky

Thanks Lizzie!

Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series-Arts & Humanities: Prof Karen Desmond The Inaugural Lecture Series invites a newly-appointed Professor from each Faculty to give a lecture in celebration of their appointment.

Prof. Karen Desmond will give her Professorial Inaugural Lecture. She'll present her research and introduce the #Brokensong project @maynoothuni.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/professori...

BROKENSONG has a website! ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/