Karen Desmond
@karendesmond.bsky.social
Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon
Presented yesterday on soundscapes of the alleluya at Worcester Cathedral in the Middle Ages at the En plain air conference in beautiful Siena (second pic is view from open windows in conference rm at U. dI Siena) #brokensong
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Presented yesterday on soundscapes of the alleluya at Worcester Cathedral in the Middle Ages at the En plain air conference in beautiful Siena (second pic is view from open windows in conference rm at U. dI Siena) #brokensong
Outside my office window right now
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Outside my office window right now
If you’re interested in doing a PhD under my supervision on medieval music (including notation, MSS, digital approaches) this is a great opportunity: four years incl EU fees, 25k euro stipend & 2k research per year. Apply now & DM for details: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
March 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If you’re interested in doing a PhD under my supervision on medieval music (including notation, MSS, digital approaches) this is a great opportunity: four years incl EU fees, 25k euro stipend & 2k research per year. Apply now & DM for details: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
March 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
Brilliant to be able to combine my BL manuscripts visit, in preparation for the paper I’ll give at the upcoming #ND ‘Leading Women’ conference (isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...), with a visit to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ’Medieval Women’ exhibition!
January 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Brilliant to be able to combine my BL manuscripts visit, in preparation for the paper I’ll give at the upcoming #ND ‘Leading Women’ conference (isla.nd.edu/news-and-eve...), with a visit to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social ’Medieval Women’ exhibition!
Taught #Fauvel last week to our first-years and then literally this weekend this is the NYT headline #medievalbluesky 'And then they put their hands on Fauvel and begin to pet him' (Roman de Fauvel, vv. 117-18)
December 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Taught #Fauvel last week to our first-years and then literally this weekend this is the NYT headline #medievalbluesky 'And then they put their hands on Fauvel and begin to pet him' (Roman de Fauvel, vv. 117-18)