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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 2d

Out now: my full issue of NCMR on Playing the Classics in the Nineteenth Century! Thanks to all of the authors and my co-editor Annelies Andries for their amazing work!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core

Nineteenth-Century Music Review - Professor Martin Clarke, Professor Rosemary Golding

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 22d

I am particularly pleased that you report just that, 'conversations'. Sometimes, discussions about this can look like decrees are being given out from on high, particularly if you are not part of the discussion. It is very important to show the process of consensus forming, if there is a consensus.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 22d

I used to see a lot more threads like this one back in the other place. This is a super helpful and ongoing summary of a discussion that affects all in academia, whether you are junior, mid-career, or a senior academic. Recommended!👇👇👇

Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 22d

Day two of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Presidency Conference! Today the focus is diversity, equity, inclusion and well-being. I am very excited for these conversations!

#MSCA #MSCA2025DK

A stone coloured notebook that says “Danish Presidency of the Council or the European Union” sits on pale teal folder. Beside is a coffee cup, an iPhone (with a pale teal case) and a pencil. I am in an auditorium.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 23d

Depending on when you think you can get it done, it might be worth considering publishing it with B&B as a series. Might be worth having a chat/think about that....

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 23d

That many words in “months”? Blimey, I am finishing a book right now of the same length which took me three years….

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · 25d

If you are interested in research into early recordings, check out our blog reporting on the STSM hosted by @evamoreda.bsky.social at the University of Glasgow in June 2025! earlymuse.eu/publications...

Early Music on Early Recordings: Toward a Sustainable, Co-Created Database - EarlyMuse

Historical musicology has traditionally privileged written items—such as scores, manuscripts, and personal correspondence—as its primary sources, while sound recordings have been relatively overlooked...

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh no!

Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Sep 4

One day I will write an article about all the ways my name has been misspelled in (usually positive) reviews.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Which ones are you looking for? Newspapers.com has worked wonders for me...

The past: read all about it.

The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you don’t know it already, you should try this one from Kenji. It’s a bit of work, but it gets pretty close to meat while being vegan. www.seriouseats.com/vegetables-w...

Vegetable Wellington: The Ultimate Vegan Plant-Based Holiday Roast

This vegan roast is so pretty, so mouth-watering, so packed with flavor and texture that even the hardcore carnivores at the table will make room on their plate for a slice, perhaps even instead of th...

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading this!

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Uiteraard Pluk van de Petteflet, een van Annie M. G. Schmidt's absolute meesterwerken. De Lispeltuut, de Krullevaar, Zaza de Kakkerlak, Langhors, Duizeltje de Eekhoorn, de Stampertjes, de Heen-en-Weerwolf en de andere fantastische vondsten uit dit boek staan me nog tot vandaag bij.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you!

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 22

Since the news is out now anyway, I am very happy to share that I have been awarded a large research grant from the @dfg.de for my research project 'The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869'. See gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje...

DFG - GEPRIS - The Material, the Artistic, and the Social: Orchestral Rehearsals in and around Berlin and London, 1813 – 1869

Musicological scholarship has long detected a substantial gap between current and nineteenth-century performances of music. One important reason for this ...

gepris.dfg.de

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pfff blogs. I have (had?) a whole YouTube channel dedicated to me 🤓 but best of luck!

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jul 8

NEW Blogpost: at the University of Valencia, six musicologists from all over Europe met to discuss the position of historical musicology in higher education. Have a look!

Reflecting on Historical Musicology in European Higher Music Education Institutions: A Collaborative Endeavour by Aleksandra Pister, Christophe Levaux, Ferran Escrivà Llorca, Gareth Balch, Marianna Si...

At the invitation of Ferran Escrivà Llorca (Universitat de València), we recently took part in a collaborative research initiative titled “Historical Musicology in European HMEIs: Institutional Framew...

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jun 16

A difficult week, as I returned to Manchester for the memorial of my friend and to place a plaque in his memory, co-written by his loved ones, in the concert hall that he frequently visited. Now 7 days in Naples for an entirely different kind of co-writing: a text on artistic research for EarlyMuse.

Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Happy to announce that my book on anti-Americanism and the American pianists who studied in Weimar, Berlin, and Vienna around 1900 is now under contract with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social . The book should be out in 2026, and is the primary outcome of the big DFG-Project that I worked on in Lübeck.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 27

Happy to help!

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 27

Can you send me some examples in which this is used? I would generally just translate this as 'a born pianist', but depending on the specific context there might be something more to it....

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 13

Very troubling: the University of Greifswald @unigreifswald.bsky.social is threatening to abandon its musicology department. www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...

Uni Greifswald will ihre Musikwissenschaft abschaffen

Die Universität Greifswald spart und setzt auf Trends wie die sogenannten Digital Humanities. Das hat Folgen: In dieser Woche will sie die Abschaffung ihres Fachs Musikwissenschaft beschließen.

www.faz.net

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 9

Just occured to me: in cursive the L in Clara can look like an E, especially if you don't draw it all the way to the upper line; the converse is true for the A and the D, if you overshoot the line on the right. TLDR: probably not a printing error as such, but the result of sloppy handwriting.

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 8

As to Clara/Cedra Schumann: never seen that before... is it possible that it is a printing error? Or are there repeated mentions? Strange misspellings are pretty common in other languages too....

Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 8

I checked Americans studying in other cities than my book is actually about (Weimar, Vienna, and Berlin), just to check a theory I have, and he showed up there. Btw, not sure if he will actually make the book, as I am in the process of cutting a lot of stuff, but he might just hide in a footnote

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Marten Noorduin @martennoorduin.bsky.social · May 8

Oh I think I am wrong, the guy died in Italy, but after catching something on the way over. Will be very curious to read it once its done; if he is who I think he is he might show up once or twice in my book too. He taught in Frankfurt, right?

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