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‘Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 1150 to c. 1350’, an ERC Consolidator Grant project @MaynoothUni (PI: Prof. Karen Desmond) https://ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/
CFP!! Come to beautiful
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for the #BROKENSONG conference! 14-16 May 2026: 'Fragmented Musical Cultures c.1150–c.1350'. CFP deadline 30 Sept 2025. More info and the full CFP: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/brokensong/i...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In early June, Karen traveled to London where #BROKENSONG convened a very productive pre-MEC workshop to move forward on encoding pre-mensural notation in MEI - thanks to all involved! She also presented a paper at the 2025 MEC conference #music-encoding ‪@music-encoding.bsky.social‬
July 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Later in May Karen and Johanna travelled to the amazing Centre for Manuscript Studies @uni-hamburg.de to learn multispectral imaging processing techniques and best practices. We are very excited to start the MSI processing of BROKENSONG's images!! #MSI #manuscripts
June 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#BROKENSONG has had a busy month. In May the team traveled to the U. of Cambridge for a joint workshop with the #ERC-BENEDICAMUS project at beautiful St John's, & several intensive meetings with experts in plainchant, palaeography, bookbinding & multispectral imaging. A productive 5 days!
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library.
#medievalbluesky
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April 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Last weekend, Professor Karen Desmond attended the Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities conference, with a paper titled 'Networks of Polyphony in 14th-Century England, and Possible Connections to Shouldham’. The event took place at the University of Notre Dame London, UK.
March 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Members of #BROKENSONG are in beautiful York and London this week, working at the York Minster Library, the British Library, The London Archives, and the National Archives. #medievalbluesky (literally)
January 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Prof. Karen Desmond will be presenting a paper at this fabulous conference on Leading Women in Medieval Religious Communities hosted by Notre Dame London March 8-9, 2025: isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
PhD student on the #Brokensong project at The SMI/ICTMD-IE Postgraduate Conference! @sminews1.bsky.social

On January 16th, Inês Trindade presented her research ‘The Veneration of Saint Scholastica in the British Isles: The Worcester Gradual F. 160 as Case-Study’, at @tcddublin.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Prof Karen Desmond (@maynoothuni.bsky.social) will give a talk tomorrow afternoon at University College Dublin @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social Research Seminar Series introducing the #brokensong project
November 26, 2024 at 6:33 PM