Just to remind people, if they've forgotten -- Duple Time is the UK filkcon next year (2012) in February ( Read more... )

So, andpuff has a new book out as an e-book, being sold by Barnes and Noble for the Nook. Great, I thought, Nook is ePub and I can read that ( Read more... )

As smallship1 said, as a Brit I can't reasonably tell Americans what to do. However, as a person I can help to spread the word to those who are in a position to do something.

Incidentally, I looked this up (since it seems to be spreading as a single-source meme), and link to the page of Personhood USA about the bills they are promoting -- the Mississippi ( Read more... )

Some time ago, in a BBC TV programme about the "Red Priest" Antonio Vivaldi, they featured an all-female choir (including female bass) who were performing his works in the style in which they were probably originally performed at the Ospedale della Pietà (some scholars have suggested that men were 'imported', but other records show that women took ( Read more... )

OK, a question for music historians ( Read more... )

I seem to be not receiving LJ notifications of things like comments, the last one I got was at around 10:30UT yesterday (and there have been several comments on my comments and posts since then). Is anyone else seeing this?

There seems to be a new site for UK folk music ( Read more... )

I've had this piece on my mind for weeks. I'm certain that I've heard it lots of times on Classic FM or Radio 3, but haven't found anyone who can identify it. Very probably as soon as someone does name it I'll go 'duh ( Read more... )

I'm wondering if there already is such a thing. The thing I have in mind would be a sort of graphics/GUI application. It would allow the number of days (and streams/rooms) and the time constraints to be specified as a table grid (scrollable both ways; the time (vertical) should be able to support divisions at least down to 5 minute granularity to ( Read more... )

I've posted about this before, but got no replies ( Read more... )