Jason Smart
@jasonsmart.bsky.social
Tudor music, birder, former organist.
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Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores
Help us to collect digital scores from composers and independent publishers.
www.bl.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Do you compose or publish music in the UK? 'Call for composers and publishers to deposit digital scores' with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries? www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Please share with any musicians you know!
Please share with any musicians you know!
Be aware that, despite the clear impression given—"receive 40% off your order"—the discount offer does *not* apply to this book. Frankly dishonest advertising by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
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Music, Politics and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Cambridge
This major study of the famous seventeenth century music manuscripts at Peterhouse sets them in the context of the religious and political movements leading to the Civil War.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Be aware that, despite the clear impression given—"receive 40% off your order"—the discount offer does *not* apply to this book. Frankly dishonest advertising by @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
boydellandbrewer.com/book/music-p...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/music-p...
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Absolutely mind-blowing views of the male Siberian Thrush at Loch of Asta, Shetland this afternoon...
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
October 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Absolutely mind-blowing views of the male Siberian Thrush at Loch of Asta, Shetland this afternoon...
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
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Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running.
Hardly any surprise why.
#RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...
Hardly any surprise why.
#RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...
Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running
Natural England has finally got around to publishing the data for the 2025 Hen Harrier breeding season, which demonstrate very clear differences between areas managed for conservation and those man…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running.
Hardly any surprise why.
#RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...
Hardly any surprise why.
#RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...
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After watching Ospreys on my guided Dart 'Osprey' Cruise and telling the group to look out for possible Glossy Ibis's this happens!! I estimated 70 but there were 91! perhaps the Wadebridge flock? at least 3 Ospreys, Kingfisher Mandarin Ducks, Common Sandpipers too.
September 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
After watching Ospreys on my guided Dart 'Osprey' Cruise and telling the group to look out for possible Glossy Ibis's this happens!! I estimated 70 but there were 91! perhaps the Wadebridge flock? at least 3 Ospreys, Kingfisher Mandarin Ducks, Common Sandpipers too.
Findhorn Valley, Scotland
August 30, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Findhorn Valley, Scotland
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Wryneck was still showing well around #TurfLocksHotel again today and feeling the heat at times. Also seen were Glossy Ibis flying around the #ExminsterMarsh main lagoon, Osprey with fish in dead tree west of Turf and Kingfisher south of the #TurfLockGates
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wryneck was still showing well around #TurfLocksHotel again today and feeling the heat at times. Also seen were Glossy Ibis flying around the #ExminsterMarsh main lagoon, Osprey with fish in dead tree west of Turf and Kingfisher south of the #TurfLockGates
Exciting news! ✨
The recorded lecture given by Dr Joseph Mason in association with our 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition has just been published on our YouTube!
If you missed the lecture or are interested in musical manuscripts, then give this video a watch! 🎶
The recorded lecture given by Dr Joseph Mason in association with our 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition has just been published on our YouTube!
If you missed the lecture or are interested in musical manuscripts, then give this video a watch! 🎶
Dr Joseph Mason: Notes from the archive: a tour through pre-modern music in Lambeth Palace Library.
On 31 July 2025, Dr Joseph Mason gave a short paper to introduce the exhibition 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. In particular, he discussed a newly discovered piece of…
youtu.be
August 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thick-legged Hoverfly
August 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thick-legged Hoverfly
A single voice part from a short setting of Ave Maria added to a liturgical psalter printed in London in 1503. The rear flyleaves also contain some plainsong, including the verse 'Disperge illos in virtute tua' of the respond 'Congregati sunt inimici'.
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Psalteriu cu antiphonis dnicalib & Eboracen. deseruietibus, ... 1503 : Liturgies-Latin Rite-Psalters. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Psalteriu cu antiphonis dnicalib & Eboracen. deseruietibus, ... 1503..Digitized from IA40313010-03.Previous issue:...
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July 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A single voice part from a short setting of Ave Maria added to a liturgical psalter printed in London in 1503. The rear flyleaves also contain some plainsong, including the verse 'Disperge illos in virtute tua' of the respond 'Congregati sunt inimici'.
archive.org/details/bim_...
archive.org/details/bim_...
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Red-crested pochard. From our forum.
#photography
#birds
#birdphotography
#nature
#focusonphotographynet
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#photography
#birds
#birdphotography
#nature
#focusonphotographynet
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Red-crested Pochard
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June 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Red-crested pochard. From our forum.
#photography
#birds
#birdphotography
#nature
#focusonphotographynet
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#photography
#birds
#birdphotography
#nature
#focusonphotographynet
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Four butterfly species in Devon have fallen to their lowest numbers in at least 10 years, according to new data from Butterfly Conservation:
Devon butterfly numbers plummet to decade low
Butterfly numbers for four species in Devon fell to their lowest in a decade in 2024, new data has revealed. Habitat loss, pesticide use and poor weather are blamed. Butterfly Conservation warns the decline reflects a wider UK trend, with more than half of species now in long-term decline for the fi...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Four butterfly species in Devon have fallen to their lowest numbers in at least 10 years, according to new data from Butterfly Conservation:
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"Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns and then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture and music." @ruthtingay.bsky.social on threats to wildlife
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
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June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns and then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture and music." @ruthtingay.bsky.social on threats to wildlife
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This Ring-necked Parakeet has taken to visiting our garden. I'd rather it wouldn't....
April 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This Ring-necked Parakeet has taken to visiting our garden. I'd rather it wouldn't....
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Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
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Roald Dahl's Danny, Champion of the World was 1st published 50 years ago (and set 20 years earlier) and still wealthy landowners are using the English countryside as their own disgusting playground. Time to stop this madness @edmilliband.bsky.social
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Roald Dahl's Danny, Champion of the World was 1st published 50 years ago (and set 20 years earlier) and still wealthy landowners are using the English countryside as their own disgusting playground. Time to stop this madness @edmilliband.bsky.social
A Long-tailed Tit in our garden yesterday afternoon.
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March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A Long-tailed Tit in our garden yesterday afternoon.
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Something amazing happened to me yesterday. I went to a free concert at a local church - The Gustav Holst Ensemble - & half way through the second piece - Brahms Piano Quartet no. 3 - I noticed that tears were streaming down my face. A moment of absolute beauty. Never known anything like it.
March 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Something amazing happened to me yesterday. I went to a free concert at a local church - The Gustav Holst Ensemble - & half way through the second piece - Brahms Piano Quartet no. 3 - I noticed that tears were streaming down my face. A moment of absolute beauty. Never known anything like it.