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Registration: Nature & Environment in Early Modern Worlds (24 June 2024, Edgbaston/hybrid)

Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Mancall (USC) Hosts: Tom Cutterham, Katie Bank, Simon Smith The early modern period was pivotal in the...

CfP: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds 24-25 June 2024

Call for Papers: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds Organisers: Tom Cutterham, Katie Bank, Simon Smith 24-25 June 2024,...

Registration || Music and Majesty: Chapels Royal, Cathedrals, and Colleges, c.1485-1688

1st - 2nd July 2024, Linnean Society, London Click Here to Register The period 1485-1688 has been heralded as a ‘Golden Age’ for English...

Special Issue: Recreational Music of Byrd and Weelkes

Katherine Butler and I co-edited a special 'cluster' of Early Music on the recreational music of Byrd and Weelkes for their 2023...

Byrd Studies in the Twenty-first century

edited by Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, and Katie Bank. Out now in e-book and hardback from Clemson University Press.

CfP - Music and Majesty: Chapels Royal, Cathedrals, and Colleges, c.1485-1688.

1st - 2nd July 2024 | Linnean Society of London, Burlington House The period 1485-1688 has been heralded as a ‘Golden Age’ for English...

ByrdLand on Choral Chihuahua

Byrdland or 'Nobody wants a flowery organ voluntary' featuring me (Katie!) and Andrew Carwood, DoM at St Paul's Cathedral and hand waver...

What about Weelkes?!

I am teaming up with my partner, conductor/baritone Will Dawes, to bring a workshop for singers on 2023's other death-day boy, Thomas...

Katie's ByrdStory

Cross posted from ByrdCentral Dr Katie Bank is a music historian at the University of Birmingham and the creator of ByrdCentral. Katie...

Byrd on Radio 4 Sunday Worship

Catch me on Radio 4 Sunday Worship discussing Byrd and Faith, presented by Jonathan Arnold, alongside Kerry McCarthy, David Allinson,...

Music and Visual Culture in England, c. 1400-1750

CALL FOR PAPERS Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon 15th-16th September 2022 Distinguished Professor Patricia Fumerton, Keynote...

Fa-la-la: Newberry Library Shelf Life Podcast

Non-lexical vocables—your fa-la-la’s and hey-nonny-no’s—didn’t originate as nonsense filler-syllables for brightening up a song. In...

Byrd 2023: Call for Papers

New Research in William Byrd’s Musical Culture on the 400th Anniversary of His Death Dear Colleague, We are writing to welcome abstracts...

Find me on Radio Choral!

Radio Choral is a dedicated choral online radio station, run by choral singers. Find me on two programmes, one discussing 'My Choral...

Well, I finally have a webpage!

Though at the moment I am currently working on a contract as an academic, over the years I have cultivated a varied portfolio career....