Category: music
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Reblogged from BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic adventures
I am lucky enough to own one of Roger’s custom-made models (though it wasn’t custom-made for me!). It will always be one of my most treasured possessions. Beautiful to look at; beautiful to hold; beautiful to listen to; beautiful to play. BBC News – Fylde Guitars’ Roger Bucknall looks back at 40 years of acoustic…
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A Change is as Good as a Rest?
This week has been rather different to normal. Foolishly, at 8am on Monday morning I was at Preston station in the hope of travelling to London, but the storm rather got in the way. Instead of arriving in London at 10, it was lunchtime when I got there, so I missed a few hours’ work…
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Summer goals: the final score
The results of my summer goals: • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction. I’m part way through this, although it needs a LOT more work. I’m discussing it with friends that I met at the Psalm Culture conference in London in July and I’ve given it a lot of thought, but so far, there’s only a…
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End of the Summer Holidays
So far, so good. I’ve managed to successfully avoid doing any work on my PhD for two weeks. This may not seem like a cause for celebration (indeed, bits of me are itching to open a book or rifle through a few ballads or even do some filing) but I am extremely poor at doing…
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Summer goals update
I thought I’d give you a quick update on my progress towards my summer goals: • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction. I’m part way through this, although it needs a LOT more work. I’m discussing it with friends that I met at the Psalm Culture conference in London in July and I’ve given it a…
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There it was, gone
A funny sort o f week. Today I sent off all my work for my panel meeting, which is scheduled for next week. My supervisors certainly have plenty to keep them busy – my research plan, training log and chapter plan don’t take up too much space, but the draft chapter on combining music and…
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Redrafting
This week I’ve been working from home again. I’ve redrafted my chapter on ballad music ready for my panel meeting and redrafted my article, although I’m not certain where I’m going to send it to. Between them, they have taken me all week. I’m going to proofread them tomorrow, as I think it’s more or…
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Panic!
Almost. Not quite. Well, perhaps sometimes. It comes over me in waves, usually on a Saturday or Sunday. This weekend it was Sunday, today, that the enormity of trying to perfect my chapter before my panel meeting. Now, if I only had to perfect my chapter in time for my panel meeting, things might be…
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Multitasking
The panel date has been set for July 10, so I have been frantically trying to write a chapter this week. Well, not the entire chapter in a week, but I have managed to get a first draft finished in the last ten days, which is good. It still needs a lot of work, because…
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Histfest!
I was very pleased to attend Lancaster University‘s postgraduate history conference yesterday, where I spoke about my work on knowingness in Tudor ballads and the links between sacred and secular music. I think they had a bit of a shock when I started singing ‘Down in Yon Forest‘ to demonstrate the simplicity of melody and…
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