Category: music
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Floundering…
It’s always like this at the start of a new piece of work. The floundering. I’m starting to investigate the music, and I have spent the last day or two looking at modal theory, finding out about hexachords, looking in to the life and times of Archbishop Matthew Parker and playing with ballad tunes. I’ve…
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Panel Preparations
So next week I have my 3rd panel meeting. I’ve just finished the work for it and it’s all ready to go to my supervisors in the morning. Tomorrow it’s on to the music! I’ll be very glad to get back to some research after all the methology and planning.
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Welcome to 2013
And so a new year begins. I have spent a lot of it so far cataloguing ballads, to the extent that my analysis spreadsheet is now so enormous that I am probably going to have to take it to the university print services department to get it printed out – I guess it will be…
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London here I come!
I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the last couple of weeks planning my trip to London. I’ve made arrangements to go to the British Library, the Society of Antiquaries and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, and although I’m a bit nervous (I’ve never done anything like this before), I’m also very excited. This…
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Society for Renaissance Studies Conference
I’ve just spent three days at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Manchester, and very stimulating it was too. It was nice to meet some new people and hear about their work, and a few people I’ve spoken to have been interested in my work and offered to keep in touch. There were some…
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I think it’s taking over my life….
…which I suppose is not really surprising! I’ve had a really good day, but I know I can’t carry on now, because it’s too late to start on another section that could drag on into the night. I’ve written 4800 words of my chapter on images of Mary, and although doubtless some of them need…
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Ballads and Marigolds
This week I’ve been looking at the ballads written about Mary and Philip, and their background. So I’m looking into the authors and printers, and the culture of balladry in the early modern period. I’m really finding it very interesting, not least because of my background in music and my particular interest in the folk…
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