I'm working through the men's pieces of the Wanley Partbooks (Bodleian Music School MSS e.420-422) this summer with the men of One Equall Musick. It's pretty interesting stuff - musicologically and culturally. It's a mixed bag, even when it comes to the four-part anthems we're trawling through. There's plenty of homophony, interwoven with first-species counterpoint, and some more complex Eton-choirbook-like counterpoint (in one of the Amens - Lord Jesu Christ, son of the Living God). And there's some harmonic / cadential oddities like ending on a 1st inversion of a D major chord, where the Basses have a 6th into the final note... But there are also other things - some counterfeited pieces to
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Happy to announce that I've landed a several year contract here at McGill as an Academic Associate in the Department of History and Assistant Director of the proposed Centre for Digital Humanities. The position however is due to the gracious support of the McGill Library, where I'll be running digital humanities workshops and assisting with the development of the new Research Commons, the Faculty of Arts where I'll be helping run the proposed Centre, and the Faculty of Religious Studies where I'll be lecturing in the winter terms. Lots to do, but overall some stability and clarity for a few years doing what I've been doing for a number of years already - being a digital historian and humanis
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