Alana Mailes
@alanamailes.bsky.social
Musicologist, classical singer, historian of extremely old-timey things 🎼🎵📚📜
Exciting news: my short book on Jesuit martyr plays is out today! And free to read for the next two weeks!
English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage
Cambridge Core - Music: General Interest - English Madrigals on the Jesuit Stage
www.cambridge.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Exciting news: my short book on Jesuit martyr plays is out today! And free to read for the next two weeks!
Happy Sunday! My article on travelogues is out! And open access ✨🌟🥂
“All kiend of Musicke: and Instriments of Warr”: British Travel Writers in <em>Seicento</em> Venice
'“All kiend of Musicke: and Instriments of Warr”: British Travel Writers in <em>Seicento</em> Venice from <em>The Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music</em>
sscm-jscm.org
April 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Happy Sunday! My article on travelogues is out! And open access ✨🌟🥂
Reposted by Alana Mailes
In case you're around @thehuntington.bsky.social this week, I'm giving a talk on Thursday at noon based on my recent Donne article. Performances by @alanamailes.bsky.social with GRAMMY-winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs. Should be fun! Hope to see you there!
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/13766214
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/13766214
Donne's Lost Songs
Presenter: Ross Duffin, Distinguished University Professor and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University
The poetry of John Donne is widely...
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In case you're around @thehuntington.bsky.social this week, I'm giving a talk on Thursday at noon based on my recent Donne article. Performances by @alanamailes.bsky.social with GRAMMY-winning lutenist Stephen Stubbs. Should be fun! Hope to see you there!
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/13766214
huntingtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/13766214
Reposted by Alana Mailes
It’s here! My book on music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques! With nice blurbs by some very knowledgeable people (who really did read the book)! With lots of music and a full-color insert! Enjoy!
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It’s here! My book on music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques! With nice blurbs by some very knowledgeable people (who really did read the book)! With lots of music and a full-color insert! Enjoy!
Big news from 400 years ago! Turns out the 17th-century English musician and composer Richard Dering secretly converted to Catholicism and worked at the Venerable English College in Rome. Proud to publish the research I’ve done to unearth all of this with Maurice Whitehead.
A Stuart Musician’s Conversion to Catholicism: Richard Dering and the Venerable English College, Rome
ABSTRACT. The English organist and composer Richard Dering (c.1580–1630) is recognized today for his key role in the transmission of Italian musical styles
doi.org
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Big news from 400 years ago! Turns out the 17th-century English musician and composer Richard Dering secretly converted to Catholicism and worked at the Venerable English College in Rome. Proud to publish the research I’ve done to unearth all of this with Maurice Whitehead.