Hey hey it's #BandcampFriday everyone and our new album is just right here, right now, celebrating women and music, and you just KNOW you want to order it today!! musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

Sigh. ....Guess I'll just have to keep fighting sexism by listening to #nuntastic @musicasecreta.bsky.social on the loud setting...

Hey hey it's #BandcampFriday everyone and our new album is just right here, right now, celebrating women and music, and you just KNOW you want to order it today!! musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

More of Jo Carpenter's PR sorcery - this time, securing a blog on the Gramophone website, with pictures of the #nuntastic archival stuff... www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/articl...

Well, yesterday was a lot of fun! Listen again here. A few audible gasps when Petroc Trelawney announced that Ricordanze will be Album of the Week on Essential Classics next week, plus a fair helping of muffled and not so muffled giggles. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

There was much giggling off mic, mostly because of @emilyscartoons.bsky.social . We did, in fact, have a brief “quaaaa”

Been at the BBC. And, uh, this happened. Holy cow.

Soundcheck with nano-nun, a relic from yarnbombing Latitude Festival in 2011. #nuntastic #BBC #InTune

I've just been listening to this new album by @musicasecreta.bsky.social and it has stopped me in my tracks. A feast for the ears and for the soul! Hugely recommended!

Suor Scholastica has her say.

Ooo! @musicasecreta.bsky.social and @lauriestras.bsky.social on Radio 3 Breakfast and you can hear them on In Tune later today. Do listen.

Up early to make sure I don’t miss the first airplay from our new album on #BBC #Radio3 breakfast. Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for making this particular dream come true! musicasecreta.org/product/rico...

Sending out the pre-orders. 📮📮💌Tomorrow’s the big day - our #nuntastic eleventh CD released on the world!

Also, give @emilyscartoons.bsky.social your money. Invest in your wellbeing. Looking at you #TeamNun teamsters.

This week I am mostly about the nuns (JOIN US on Wednesday on Radio 3 In Tune for the launch of our #nuntastic new album!) so I am here for this. We're rehearsing this afternoon. We may sing "qua."

Three more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...

To celebrate the launch of our 11th album, *for this week only* if you buy a copy from our shop, you'll get an extra 25% off any of our other CDs on top of our normal 15% discount. That's 15% of your copy of Ricordanze and 40% off up to 5 other CDs. It's #nuntastic! musicasecreta.org/product/rico...

To celebrate the launch of our 11th album, *for this week only* if you buy a copy from our shop, you'll get an extra 25% off any of our other CDs on top of our normal 15% discount. That's 15% of your copy of Ricordanze and 40% off up to 5 other CDs. It's #nuntastic! musicasecreta.org/product/rico...

Three more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...

Six days to go until the album release, and we have a new blog post... musicasecreta.org/ricordanze-l...

We have our first review for Ricordanze! Thank you Interlude interlude.hk/nuns-celebra...

This takes seconds, and you could really help Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social ! movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

It's #BandcampFriday everyone! If you haven't yet pre-ordered our new album, or if you want something #nuntastic for your weekend relaxing, then head over to our site. Bandcamp waive their fee to artists today so we benefit to the max. #earlymodern choons please musicasecreta.bandcamp.com

time to boost my besties here - you too can support the (still) only early music ensemble in the UK dedicated to researching and performing (long) Renaissance music by and for women

It's #BandcampFriday everyone! If you haven't yet pre-ordered our new album, or if you want something #nuntastic for your weekend relaxing, then head over to our site. Bandcamp waive their fee to artists today so we benefit to the max. #earlymodern choons please musicasecreta.bandcamp.com

And .... it's a wrap on our crowdfunder! An amazing effort in the home stretch - more than £1000 raised in the past four days. A big, HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported the project. We will get your rewards to you as soon as we can. 😍 #earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony

Just a few more hours to grab rewards from our crowdfunder! Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too. We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...

It does really sound fab, thanks to Vidda - an irreplaceable member of our sisterhood ❤️

As a trans ally to these C16th nuns, the music in whose lives this project rapturously celebrates, I heartily encourage anyone who can afford it to support this project, either with a donation or an album preorder. The music is lush (& recorded by yours truly, so sounds fab 😘)!!

My final under-three-minute talk about the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, in what has been two months of a lot of FinalCutPro nonsense, and serious peril to my heaving, overcrowded hard drive.

If you're in the UK and can donate, please help them reach their goal. Their music has so much beauty and historic significance and helps keep us connected to this world and its wonders.

24 hours to go for our crowdfunding campaign! Our final instalment in the MiniMotet series, this one is all about living together in peace and harmony, and burning all your vanities #earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony youtu.be/uyCejiKD1sE

Leo wants you to know all about our project #Caturday #AcademicCats

This is so stunningly beautiful I may have to become a nun!

2 more days of our crowdfunder to go, and today's MiniMotet-based-on-a-well-known-tune is one for all the #Monteverdi fans. To paraphrase, sure he was great, but nuns did it all in wimples and chronically sleep-deprived. #nuntastic #earlymodern #GirlsGotPolyphony 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...

Moar Mini Motet fun!

It's the final week of our crowdfunder, and we have some special mini-motets for you - four different ways to sneak a tune into a bigger piece. First up, the gorgeous Sancta Dei genitrix. #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony youtu.be/o30wpYBp3n8

It's not too late to donate to this wonderful project!

Support #nuntastic music! You can nominate @musicasecreta.bsky.social for this award from anywhere in the world - you do not need to be based in the UK!

You too can nominate us for this draw!! We'd be so grateful movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...

It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ

What can I say? He was on the sofa. He wanted attention more than he wanted to move off the sofa. So we made the lesson together. 😽 #Not #Caturday #AcademicCats

It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ

This week's lightning lesson! And it really is a lesson with lightning in it, all about the Messa sopra Recordare Virgo Mater. If you enjoy these videos, why not pledge to our Crowdfunder? But most of all, share the joy - this music opens the heavens! #earlymodern #nuntastic youtu.be/RyOIzfn9lAI

Likely a long shot, but might any #earlymodern musicologists be able to identify these bars? There are numerous settings by Campion, Morley, Gautier in this Scottish ms, so I wondered if it was recognisable as any of theirs, or indeed someone else’s. As a lit historian, it’s beyond me, sadly.

The eagle-eyed among you may notice the books disappearing from behind me. I'm crowdfunding and organising an album launch while moving house. Be a musician, they said. You can get paid for doing what you love, they said. Oh, you love being a musicologist? Do that, too, they said. Mamma mia.

This week's lightning lesson! And it really is a lesson with lightning in it, all about the Messa sopra Recordare Virgo Mater. If you enjoy these videos, why not pledge to our Crowdfunder? But most of all, share the joy - this music opens the heavens! #earlymodern #nuntastic youtu.be/RyOIzfn9lAI

Many congratulations to EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble for this tremendous disc! Not-Gesualdo FTW #earlymodern #earlymusic open.spotify.com/album/44i0sQ...

New micro-history lesson coming soon on *this mass* - in the meantime, you can find three sections on our YouTube channel, including this Gloria. What's not to like? (and if you like it, you can put a pledge on it via the Linktree in our bio ... 🥰) www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYMZ...

Have just pre-ordered this exciting CD and all revenue today on #BandCampFriday goes to @musicasecreta.bsky.social - You get 8 tracks now, and the complete digital album the moment it’s released on October 1, 2025 #BandCampFriday ends in 10h 30m