Dr Hannah Millington
@hannahmillington.bsky.social
Music historian and #EthelSmyth scholar working at TU Dublin and Chamber Choir Ireland. | Hon Sec of Society for Musicology in Ireland. | Shropshire Lass. Lover of nature. Devourer of books.
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Deadline coming up soon for our fabulous RMA Book Prizes (deadline 15 June)
RMA Monograph Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
RMA Edited Collection Book Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
www.rma.ac.uk/grants-award...
RMA Monograph Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
RMA Edited Collection Book Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
www.rma.ac.uk/grants-award...
RMA Book Prizes – Royal Musical Association
www.rma.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Deadline coming up soon for our fabulous RMA Book Prizes (deadline 15 June)
RMA Monograph Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
RMA Edited Collection Book Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
www.rma.ac.uk/grants-award...
RMA Monograph Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
RMA Edited Collection Book Prize, sponsored by Cambridge University Press
£500 in books
www.rma.ac.uk/grants-award...
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Registration has now opened (through Eventbrite) for SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (Dublin, 19-21 May). Details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
23rd Annual Plenary Conference, 19-21 June 2025 | Society for Musicology in Ireland
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June 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Registration has now opened (through Eventbrite) for SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (Dublin, 19-21 May). Details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
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I might be most excited about the chapter on Ethel Smyth’s late work The Prison. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work.
Smyth adapts a metaphysical story from her close friend Henry Brewster.
Smyth adapts a metaphysical story from her close friend Henry Brewster.
May 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I might be most excited about the chapter on Ethel Smyth’s late work The Prison. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the work.
Smyth adapts a metaphysical story from her close friend Henry Brewster.
Smyth adapts a metaphysical story from her close friend Henry Brewster.
More #EthelSmyth excitement from Liverpool! 🥳
Major news from our Special Collections and Archives! 📢
Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton @lisacolton.bsky.social, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab: tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd
Our Head of Music, Prof Lisa Colton @lisacolton.bsky.social, identified that we hold the manuscript of Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D, which scholars thought was lost. It is now fully available on the Digital Heritage Lab: tinyurl.com/47ce8hkd
May 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
More #EthelSmyth excitement from Liverpool! 🥳
Lovely to see these beauties bloom. ❤️
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lovely to see these beauties bloom. ❤️
Sennen beach looking lovely this morning! ☀️
March 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Sennen beach looking lovely this morning! ☀️
A room with a view. 🧡🐶🌊
March 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A room with a view. 🧡🐶🌊
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I found the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D safely held in the Special Collections & Archives of the University of Liverpool. Thanks to @livunilibrary.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social @hannahmillington.bsky.social & @dramyzigler.bsky.social!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...
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Original Manuscript score of Dame Ethel Smyth’s 'Mass in D' discovered by Department of Music staff | Stories | Department of Music | University of Liverpool facebooklinkedininstagramThe Origina...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I found the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D safely held in the Special Collections & Archives of the University of Liverpool. Thanks to @livunilibrary.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social @hannahmillington.bsky.social & @dramyzigler.bsky.social!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...
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An exciting week for Smyth scholarship! Congratulations to @lisacolton.bsky.social on her discovery of Smyth’s Mass in D original manuscript score! 🎉🥳
I found the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth's Mass in D safely held in the Special Collections & Archives of the University of Liverpool. Thanks to @livunilibrary.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social @hannahmillington.bsky.social & @dramyzigler.bsky.social!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...
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Original Manuscript score of Dame Ethel Smyth’s 'Mass in D' discovered by Department of Music staff | Stories | Department of Music | University of Liverpool facebooklinkedininstagramThe Origina...
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March 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
An exciting week for Smyth scholarship! Congratulations to @lisacolton.bsky.social on her discovery of Smyth’s Mass in D original manuscript score! 🎉🥳
“Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’.”
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Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’
Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career
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February 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’.”
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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A few signs of spring. 🌱
February 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A few signs of spring. 🌱
Super article from Katherine Rundell in the LRB.
‘…it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice. It will always be worth showing them how to build an internal blueprint for happiness. Nothing about being alive demands joy. But, over and over, the great children’s books insist on it…’
‘…it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice. It will always be worth showing them how to build an internal blueprint for happiness. Nothing about being alive demands joy. But, over and over, the great children’s books insist on it…’
‘Children have not yet built wide hinterlands: to them, the world is still opaque and full of necessary bewilderment.’
Katherine Rundell on the vitality of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell on the vitality of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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February 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Super article from Katherine Rundell in the LRB.
‘…it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice. It will always be worth showing them how to build an internal blueprint for happiness. Nothing about being alive demands joy. But, over and over, the great children’s books insist on it…’
‘…it will always be worth teaching children to rejoice. It will always be worth showing them how to build an internal blueprint for happiness. Nothing about being alive demands joy. But, over and over, the great children’s books insist on it…’
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Just 3 days remain to submit your proposal for *The Expansive Canvas*! This international conference & symposium invites us to explore the large-scale forms of women composers in the long 19th century—through scholarship, performance, industry perspectives, & music education.
About - The Expansive Canvas
The Expansive Canvas Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th Century Women Composers Overview The Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music , and the Trinity Long R...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just 3 days remain to submit your proposal for *The Expansive Canvas*! This international conference & symposium invites us to explore the large-scale forms of women composers in the long 19th century—through scholarship, performance, industry perspectives, & music education.
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Dappled light and birdsong - Our Ancient English Bluebell Woodland in Spring
The most extraordinary euphoria envelops me each April
Its promise sustains me in Winter, and enthrals me with its memories all Summer
I will cherish our woodland until my dying day
The most extraordinary euphoria envelops me each April
Its promise sustains me in Winter, and enthrals me with its memories all Summer
I will cherish our woodland until my dying day
January 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dappled light and birdsong - Our Ancient English Bluebell Woodland in Spring
The most extraordinary euphoria envelops me each April
Its promise sustains me in Winter, and enthrals me with its memories all Summer
I will cherish our woodland until my dying day
The most extraordinary euphoria envelops me each April
Its promise sustains me in Winter, and enthrals me with its memories all Summer
I will cherish our woodland until my dying day
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Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2025. Proposals for the SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (19–21 June 2025, University College Dublin) are now warmly invited. Full details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
23rd Annual Plenary Conference, 19-21 June 2025 | Society for Musicology in Ireland
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December 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Call for papers, deadline 31 January 2025. Proposals for the SMI's 23rd annual plenary conference (19–21 June 2025, University College Dublin) are now warmly invited. Full details at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
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Struggling to balance #academiclife with healthy #sleep habits? Whether it’s a well-timed nap or pausing the grant writing, this guide by @sydneyuni.bsky.social sleep expert, Chin Moi Chow, will help you reclaim your full eight hours: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-a... #health #wellbeing
Why academics are losing sleep
Struggling to balance academic life with healthy sleep habits? Whether it’s a well-placed nap or giving grant writing a rest, this science-backed guide will help scholars, teachers and administrators ...
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January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Struggling to balance #academiclife with healthy #sleep habits? Whether it’s a well-timed nap or pausing the grant writing, this guide by @sydneyuni.bsky.social sleep expert, Chin Moi Chow, will help you reclaim your full eight hours: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-a... #health #wellbeing
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👋 CMC Ireland has joined Bluesky! CMC is the archive and resource centre for Contemporary Music, supporting artists working in New Music throughout the island of Ireland. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
#cmcireland #contemporarymusicIRL
#cmcireland #contemporarymusicIRL
January 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
👋 CMC Ireland has joined Bluesky! CMC is the archive and resource centre for Contemporary Music, supporting artists working in New Music throughout the island of Ireland. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
#cmcireland #contemporarymusicIRL
#cmcireland #contemporarymusicIRL
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RIP Ita Beausang. An appreciation of our esteemed colleague's life's work, written by John O'Flynn, is available at musicologyireland.com/RIP_Ita_Beau...
Ita Beausang (1936-2024), a remembrance | Society for Musicology in Ireland
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January 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
RIP Ita Beausang. An appreciation of our esteemed colleague's life's work, written by John O'Flynn, is available at musicologyireland.com/RIP_Ita_Beau...
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Registration has opened for the joint SMI and ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference (Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January). Register now at the Eventbrite link given at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
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January 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Registration has opened for the joint SMI and ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference (Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January). Register now at the Eventbrite link given at musicologyireland.com/events/confe...
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🎞️Premiere "Placeholder: music and musings on practice spaces"
Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan
Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com
Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan
Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎞️Premiere "Placeholder: music and musings on practice spaces"
Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan
Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com
Come join us for the screening and discussion of Placeholder, a short film that examines DIY music and the importance and precarity of practice spaces in Ireland, 4pm in Trapdoor@UCD on Friday, 24 Jan
Tix: placeholderfilm.eventbrite.com
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Just 2 weeks left to send a proposal to The Expansive Canvas! You can hear myself and Denise Neary, co-chair of the event, chat about it here: youtube.com/watch?v=QoM-.... With thanks to the
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Royal Irish Academy of Music
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Royal Irish Academy of Music
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January 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Just 2 weeks left to send a proposal to The Expansive Canvas! You can hear myself and Denise Neary, co-chair of the event, chat about it here: youtube.com/watch?v=QoM-.... With thanks to the
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Royal Irish Academy of Music
Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute Royal Irish Academy of Music
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We're delighted to host the 2025 SMI/ICTMD Ireland Postgraduate Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January. A stunning program of presentations, concerts, & a roster of award ceremonies that will be full of festive celebration. Registration is now open at www.eventbrite.ie/.../smiictmd....
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January 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We're delighted to host the 2025 SMI/ICTMD Ireland Postgraduate Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 16-17 January. A stunning program of presentations, concerts, & a roster of award ceremonies that will be full of festive celebration. Registration is now open at www.eventbrite.ie/.../smiictmd....
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Our woodland will soon look like this again
Full of bluebells, sun, but also shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
Full of bluebells, sun, but also shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
December 28, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Our woodland will soon look like this again
Full of bluebells, sun, but also shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
Full of bluebells, sun, but also shivelight and shadowtackle
Fast changing shafts of sunlight piercing or filtering through foliage and the canopy of a wood
The words were created by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1888
Looking forward to our Christmas concert tonight at Whitefriar St Church, Dublin 2! 🎄 Join us for a festive programme and legendary raffle in aid of Focus Ireland.
Tickets: LaetareChristmas2024.eventbrite.ie.
Tickets: LaetareChristmas2024.eventbrite.ie.
December 16, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Looking forward to our Christmas concert tonight at Whitefriar St Church, Dublin 2! 🎄 Join us for a festive programme and legendary raffle in aid of Focus Ireland.
Tickets: LaetareChristmas2024.eventbrite.ie.
Tickets: LaetareChristmas2024.eventbrite.ie.
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Thrilled to announce Call for Participation for The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th C Women Composers | 26–28/8/2025. Hosted by TCD Dept of Music, RIAM & @tlrhub.bsky.social Calling PERFORMERS, SCHOLARS & INDUSTRY LEADERS
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About - The Expansive Canvas
The Expansive Canvas Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th Century Women Composers Overview The Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music , and the Trinity Long R...
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November 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Thrilled to announce Call for Participation for The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th C Women Composers | 26–28/8/2025. Hosted by TCD Dept of Music, RIAM & @tlrhub.bsky.social Calling PERFORMERS, SCHOLARS & INDUSTRY LEADERS
expansivecanvas.com
expansivecanvas.com