spotted some neumes at @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
spotted some neumes at @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social
Also chanted the first two lines of the Internationale in plainchant for the bit
getting drunk and explaining the Oxford Movement at the DSA function
December 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Also chanted the first two lines of the Internationale in plainchant for the bit
Me, regularly: Am I REALLY goth if I don't listen to goth music??
Me, today: Wait. I sing medieval plainchant and renaissance polyphony by candlelight. That should count as goth music
Me, today: Wait. I sing medieval plainchant and renaissance polyphony by candlelight. That should count as goth music
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Me, regularly: Am I REALLY goth if I don't listen to goth music??
Me, today: Wait. I sing medieval plainchant and renaissance polyphony by candlelight. That should count as goth music
Me, today: Wait. I sing medieval plainchant and renaissance polyphony by candlelight. That should count as goth music
Re: the bottom right image.
Marriage is scary, what if they don’t like plainchant?! (Dealbreaker, tbh)
Marriage is scary, what if they don’t like plainchant?! (Dealbreaker, tbh)
July 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Re: the bottom right image.
Marriage is scary, what if they don’t like plainchant?! (Dealbreaker, tbh)
Marriage is scary, what if they don’t like plainchant?! (Dealbreaker, tbh)
(ecclesiastical plainchant) You you the the / The the you you
May 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
(ecclesiastical plainchant) You you the the / The the you you
I blame the troubadours
in my day, we had nought but plainchant and we reveled in’t
in my day, we had nought but plainchant and we reveled in’t
February 5, 2024 at 2:35 AM
I blame the troubadours
in my day, we had nought but plainchant and we reveled in’t
in my day, we had nought but plainchant and we reveled in’t
I recently saw TT jobs in musicology advertised inviting specialists working on early music, defined as anything before ca. 1800.
So “early music” now means plainchant through Beethoven’s early period:
Four distinct specialties (medieval, early modern, baroque, early classic) collapsed into one.
So “early music” now means plainchant through Beethoven’s early period:
Four distinct specialties (medieval, early modern, baroque, early classic) collapsed into one.
“Premodern,” in the East Asian studies context, usually means everything before ~1860.* My advisee just got a TT job where she’s expected to teach Chinese lit and culture from the Bronze Age to the fall of the Qing in 1911. Like in Euro medieval studies, an excuse to reduce tenure lines.
And probably worth keeping in mind it’s also just a trend. Mediterranean studies is hot right now, before that the buzzwords were things like digital humanities. Meanwhile the idea of a broad field of “premodern” studies is just providing cover for the reality of disappearing tenure lines
March 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I recently saw TT jobs in musicology advertised inviting specialists working on early music, defined as anything before ca. 1800.
So “early music” now means plainchant through Beethoven’s early period:
Four distinct specialties (medieval, early modern, baroque, early classic) collapsed into one.
So “early music” now means plainchant through Beethoven’s early period:
Four distinct specialties (medieval, early modern, baroque, early classic) collapsed into one.
Being brave enough to sing a little bit of plainchant evensong #TinyJoys
And managing to walk to the Tesco at the garage without being in ridiculous pain
And managing to walk to the Tesco at the garage without being in ridiculous pain
March 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Being brave enough to sing a little bit of plainchant evensong #TinyJoys
And managing to walk to the Tesco at the garage without being in ridiculous pain
And managing to walk to the Tesco at the garage without being in ridiculous pain
Every time some chud tries to type “Merica” and it gets corrected to “Mercia” my heart sings a little, but in a Gregorian plainchant.
Scots and Haitians drinking free Coronas at a tailgate party is peak ‘Murica.
June 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Every time some chud tries to type “Merica” and it gets corrected to “Mercia” my heart sings a little, but in a Gregorian plainchant.
I’m not going to say that I butchered the plainchant this evening.
I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom!
⚓️
I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom!
⚓️
April 24, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I’m not going to say that I butchered the plainchant this evening.
I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom!
⚓️
I’ll just say that I inadvertently invented a psalm tone that has never before existed in all of Christendom!
⚓️
Indeed. And ropey plainchant is wonderful
May 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Indeed. And ropey plainchant is wonderful
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
Quantum Mechanics
Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics
Literature and Film of Weimar Germany
Nonviolent Political Action
Latin American Politics
Quantum Mechanics
Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics
Literature and Film of Weimar Germany
Nonviolent Political Action
Latin American Politics
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
Environmental philosophy
Parks planning and management
Woody plants (the full name of the course)
Rangeland management
Wetland ecology
Environmental philosophy
Parks planning and management
Woody plants (the full name of the course)
Rangeland management
Wetland ecology
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Tell me 5 classes you took in college (university)
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
1) Modernism
2) Formal Logic
3) Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
4) The History of Western Music from Plainchant to Schoenberg
5) Sociological Theory
Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" needs a plainchant remix as a dirge for our times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd2...
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows (Audio)
YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" needs a plainchant remix as a dirge for our times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd2...
In the final days of my PhD, about the CoT’s liturgical reforms and plainchant, I had a vivid dream about COUNCIL OF TRENT: THE MUSICAL. The cardinals sang a song about Borromeo and everything.
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In the final days of my PhD, about the CoT’s liturgical reforms and plainchant, I had a vivid dream about COUNCIL OF TRENT: THE MUSICAL. The cardinals sang a song about Borromeo and everything.
Music to my Eyes
I'd never seen this anonymous woodcut in a 1491 book at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 571) or the music it is part of anywhere previously... has anyone else? Beautiful addition in any case!
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
#BookWaste
I'd never seen this anonymous woodcut in a 1491 book at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 571) or the music it is part of anywhere previously... has anyone else? Beautiful addition in any case!
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
#BookWaste
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
simple tone chants & plainchant are SO accessible for congregational singing
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
simple tone chants & plainchant are SO accessible for congregational singing
Let’s have a little more #MusicalBookHistory from the Plantin-Moretus Museum! In the type store you can see some creative reuse of music prints. The image to the left, second from the bottom, is plainchant. In the image to the right you see mensural (rhythmic) notation.
#BookHistory
#BookHistory
May 25, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Let’s have a little more #MusicalBookHistory from the Plantin-Moretus Museum! In the type store you can see some creative reuse of music prints. The image to the left, second from the bottom, is plainchant. In the image to the right you see mensural (rhythmic) notation.
#BookHistory
#BookHistory
Sound poet Jimmy Crouse is back at Unlikely with “Untoward,” a poem and plainchant in audio and text at www.unlikelystories.org/content/unto... #audiopoetry #poetry #litmag #smallpress
Untoward
Untoward untoWard untowardUntoward untoWard untoward unToward untoWard untoward unToward untoWard untowardUntoward untowardUntoward un Toward untowardUntoward unToward untowardUntoward untoWard untowa...
www.unlikelystories.org
September 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Sound poet Jimmy Crouse is back at Unlikely with “Untoward,” a poem and plainchant in audio and text at www.unlikelystories.org/content/unto... #audiopoetry #poetry #litmag #smallpress
The buildup in Tiomkin’s score for the scene where George finally says “I want to live!” quotes the ancient plainchant *Dies irae* from the mass or the dead
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The buildup in Tiomkin’s score for the scene where George finally says “I want to live!” quotes the ancient plainchant *Dies irae* from the mass or the dead
me when i'm trans and visible
April 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
me when i'm trans and visible
So on the straight question: Is it or is it not "Classical Music"? Students generally agreed that Mozart, Haydn & Tchaikovsky was, but *no agreement* at all on:
13thC Plainchant
15thC Latin Mass
16thC Elizabethan Courtly Dances
Bernstein: 'Somewhere'
Schubert: 'An Die Musik' (1/2)
13thC Plainchant
15thC Latin Mass
16thC Elizabethan Courtly Dances
Bernstein: 'Somewhere'
Schubert: 'An Die Musik' (1/2)
I used to teach a short workshop on the “future of classical music.” I started by playing them 20 excerpts and just asked them to say whether each one was or wasn’t “classical music”. Nobody ever agreed….
July 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So on the straight question: Is it or is it not "Classical Music"? Students generally agreed that Mozart, Haydn & Tchaikovsky was, but *no agreement* at all on:
13thC Plainchant
15thC Latin Mass
16thC Elizabethan Courtly Dances
Bernstein: 'Somewhere'
Schubert: 'An Die Musik' (1/2)
13thC Plainchant
15thC Latin Mass
16thC Elizabethan Courtly Dances
Bernstein: 'Somewhere'
Schubert: 'An Die Musik' (1/2)
The real pop culture lie is that you'll go into a monastery and hear perfect plainchant singing lol
October 3, 2024 at 10:59 AM
The real pop culture lie is that you'll go into a monastery and hear perfect plainchant singing lol
If you are obsessively reading about imprecise pre-5-line-staff music notation and the plainchant music associated with it, it’s neumescrolling
If you are obsessively reading about human-made channels for water in the form of an open declined gravity chute was walls are raised above the surrounding terrain and which use flowing water to transport materials (not to be confused with a trench, ditch, or aqueduct), it’s flumescrolling
If you’re obsessively reading about empiricism, skepticism, and the slavery of reason to the passions, it’s Humescrolling.
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you are obsessively reading about imprecise pre-5-line-staff music notation and the plainchant music associated with it, it’s neumescrolling
It’s a bit more than just “They really like Latin and plainchant and incense”, let’s be honest.
The fact that this article from Associated Press in NPR doesn't mention that the original Lefebvrist tendency has had consistent decades long links to nazis and spreading antisemitic ideology really underplays what's gone on here.
People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d-
Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO
People : u didnt let me fin-
Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY
Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO
People : u didnt let me fin-
Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY
July 2, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It’s a bit more than just “They really like Latin and plainchant and incense”, let’s be honest.