Pleased to share that my reconstructed edition of the first Methodist tune book, The Foundery Collection (1742) is now available via IMSLP, along with recordings of all the hymns made by baritone, Jon Stainsby. #Methodist #hymns #AcademicSky imslp.org/wiki/A_Colle...

Great to see this published! All research articles in Nineteenth-Century Music Review are open access. #musicology

Pleased that a new issue of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, which I co-edit with @rosemarygolding.bsky.social, has just been published. It's a themed issue on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #musicology

Really great to see the success of one of our OU Music PhD graduates! For more on studying for a PhD at the OU see fass.open.ac.uk/music/postgr...

Very pleased to have submitted the corrected proofs for a co-edited volume "Amazing Grace at 250: Global Heritage and Contested Legacies", which will be out this summer. Short thread follows featuring just a few of the many versions discussed in the book. #AcademicSky #musicology

My wonderful former PhD student Dr Chris Grey has co-organised this conference on Thomism, Creativity and the Arts: Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, which takes place on 1 July in Oxford. #AcademicSky #musicology www.mbit.cam.ac.uk/events/event...

I was privileged to lead development of our distance-learning, part-time, international MA in Music, which has been really successful this year. We're now open for registration for September starts and look forward to welcoming our next cohort of students www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our MA in Music is open for registration! This part-time, distance-learning course can be studied worldwide, and is designed to be completed over 2 years. Sign up at www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate.... The video introduces our free sample course, available @ouopenlearn.bsky.social youtu.be/YmpddzhAFiE

Really stimulating couple of days at this conference. Enjoyed presenting a paper on Max Boyce. @royalmusical.bsky.social #AcademicSky #musicology

I have a fully-funded, 4 yr AHRC collaborative PhD studentship 'Soundscapes of domesticity: music and lived experiences in non-elite English homes, 1780–1870' supervised by myself and Matt Ingleby with colleagues at The Museum of the Home. Deadline 23 May See: www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/postgra...

Do you have a UK music degree? Would you be willing to share your career story, whether in or outside of music? A student intern is building a website to highlight where music degrees can lead. Please do get in touch if you could contribute, or share with anyone you know. Many thanks! #musicology

This contains two sets of themed essays on opera, many of which are available open access. #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #Musicology

Having written the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology entry on Assembly Bangers, I'm very much looking forward to @jamesbpartridge.bsky.social live show the Glasshouse, Gateshead tonight. Should I bring this along? #AssemblyBangers

Dr Mai Kawabata's book, East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, co-edited with Ken Ueno of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social was recently published by Ethics Press. ethicspress.com/products/eas... #AcademicSky #Research #Musicology

Grateful to the marvellous people @alcs.co.uk!

Really pleased that my CUP #WomenInMusic Element 'Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool', co-written with Michael Brocken, has just been published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Open Access until 31 March!

OU Music's @mvclarke.bsky.social and @rosemarygolding.bsky.social recently became co-editors of Nineteenth-Century Music Review, published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social. You can find out more about the journal and read open-access articles at www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AcademicSky #research

Added a couple of new videos I recorded to my occasional YouTube playlist 'Methodist Pipe Organs'. The newest were recorded in Caerphilly, on the organ where I had my first lessons some 30 years ago. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Cymru #LiveMusic #PipeOrgan

Congratulations to Lecturer Dr James Dooley, whose album in collaboration with Jamie Savan, The Polyphonic Cornett, was released by Birmingham Record Company in November. The album explores the intersection of ‘old’ musical instruments, such as the cornett, with ‘new’ music technology. #AcademicSky

PhD studentship with the good people down the corridor in the OU's Art History department. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMC556/a... #PhD #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

Back from leave today to the inevitable deluge of emails, but good to find among them things relating to two forthcoming co-edited volumes: one on Amazing Grace at 250, and the other, with @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social, on the legacy of Isaac Watts. #AcademicSky #ResearchSky

This morning, I have mostly been thinking about place. Glad to make revisions to my part of the introduction for one volume of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Christian Theology (Pic: view from the tower of @durhamcathedral.bsky.social, one of the places I write about). #AcademicSky

Practice time! Looking forward to giving a lunchtime recital at Amgueddfa Cymru: National Museum Cardiff one week today. #LiveMusic

Great to have attended my first board meeting as co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review this afternoon; looking forward to working with colleagues on the journal. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Musicology #AcademicSky

New here, but as in all walks of life, there's always an @openuniversity.bsky.social connection to be made! #OUFamily #AcademicSky