Allen Garvin
@allengarvin.bsky.social
Old Unix guy, viol player, cat spoiler, Cisco employee. See https://dfwviols.com for my cinquecento music (mostly madrigali) transcriptions.
Una mattina, mi son' svegliato
O bella miao bella miao
bella miao miao miao
Una mattina mi son' svegliato
e ho sentito un gatto HORK.
On the bed. This little beast:
O bella miao bella miao
bella miao miao miao
Una mattina mi son' svegliato
e ho sentito un gatto HORK.
On the bed. This little beast:
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Una mattina, mi son' svegliato
O bella miao bella miao
bella miao miao miao
Una mattina mi son' svegliato
e ho sentito un gatto HORK.
On the bed. This little beast:
O bella miao bella miao
bella miao miao miao
Una mattina mi son' svegliato
e ho sentito un gatto HORK.
On the bed. This little beast:
This is EXACTLY the kind of legal drama I live for.
August 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is EXACTLY the kind of legal drama I live for.
Catalogued entirely in a one book!!!
August 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Catalogued entirely in a one book!!!
Got my nails done at VdGSA conclave and they're fab!
July 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Got my nails done at VdGSA conclave and they're fab!
A music lesson, circa 1611.
June 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A music lesson, circa 1611.
Found a feral cat at the Summer Toot, brought him home (I've been home less than 2 hours). He's perfect.
May 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Found a feral cat at the Summer Toot, brought him home (I've been home less than 2 hours). He's perfect.
My car's built-in rain gauge show we got over an inch of rain!
Great feature on Acuras but inconvenient: you have to leave the moonroof open for it to work.
Great feature on Acuras but inconvenient: you have to leave the moonroof open for it to work.
May 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My car's built-in rain gauge show we got over an inch of rain!
Great feature on Acuras but inconvenient: you have to leave the moonroof open for it to work.
Great feature on Acuras but inconvenient: you have to leave the moonroof open for it to work.
Two types of frightening girls, from 1892.
May 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Two types of frightening girls, from 1892.
Spring polishing time. Figured I'd start small and work myself up to the tea service I never use.
April 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Spring polishing time. Figured I'd start small and work myself up to the tea service I never use.
There's no comparison, though, personality-wise. Hoover is a Greek-tragedy level historical figure, full of every virtue except one.
Herbert Hoover: definitely the guy you want to be compared to, stock market performance-wise
April 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
There's no comparison, though, personality-wise. Hoover is a Greek-tragedy level historical figure, full of every virtue except one.
Please, Trump, beat Hoover, who was a fatally flawed president but a genuinely good guy, scrupulously honest, who nearly worked himself to death trying to fix things.
Trump’s second term has been the worst start for any President since at least Hoover in stock market performance terms.
April 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Please, Trump, beat Hoover, who was a fatally flawed president but a genuinely good guy, scrupulously honest, who nearly worked himself to death trying to fix things.
In the magical world known as Calabria:
What in the magical fairytale is going on here?
April 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
In the magical world known as Calabria:
Mr. Squeak, purebred trash goblin. 2005-2025.
April 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Mr. Squeak, purebred trash goblin. 2005-2025.
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
April 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
Generating this likely exceeded the annual carbon emissions of a couple Baltic republics, but, no, I am not immune to stupid Internet trends.
March 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Generating this likely exceeded the annual carbon emissions of a couple Baltic republics, but, no, I am not immune to stupid Internet trends.
6 days of work, 850 breves of music. A 1549 mass on Verdelot's "Italia Mia".
I was going to start a series of masses based on madrigals, but that was a slog of work. Maybe I'll just do some imitative magnificats.
dfwviols.com/typeset/gasp...
I was going to start a series of masses based on madrigals, but that was a slog of work. Maybe I'll just do some imitative magnificats.
dfwviols.com/typeset/gasp...
Il primo libro delle messe (Gasparo Alberti)
dfwviols.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
6 days of work, 850 breves of music. A 1549 mass on Verdelot's "Italia Mia".
I was going to start a series of masses based on madrigals, but that was a slog of work. Maybe I'll just do some imitative magnificats.
dfwviols.com/typeset/gasp...
I was going to start a series of masses based on madrigals, but that was a slog of work. Maybe I'll just do some imitative magnificats.
dfwviols.com/typeset/gasp...
February 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Grumpy guy at my hotel is also a duck with antlers from behind!
February 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Grumpy guy at my hotel is also a duck with antlers from behind!
Started: Nov 2012. Finished: tonight.
All surviving printed madrigals of Luca Marenzio transcribed from original notation in modern parts and scores, except for an imperfect 1577 madrigal, and a 1593 in an anthology I have no scan of.
Last I did: a 10-voice polychoral: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...
All surviving printed madrigals of Luca Marenzio transcribed from original notation in modern parts and scores, except for an imperfect 1577 madrigal, and a 1593 in an anthology I have no scan of.
Last I did: a 10-voice polychoral: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...
Quel lauro, che fu in me già a10 by Luca Marenzio (c.1553-1599)
dfwviols.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Started: Nov 2012. Finished: tonight.
All surviving printed madrigals of Luca Marenzio transcribed from original notation in modern parts and scores, except for an imperfect 1577 madrigal, and a 1593 in an anthology I have no scan of.
Last I did: a 10-voice polychoral: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...
All surviving printed madrigals of Luca Marenzio transcribed from original notation in modern parts and scores, except for an imperfect 1577 madrigal, and a 1593 in an anthology I have no scan of.
Last I did: a 10-voice polychoral: dfwviols.com/typeset/di_d...
The "skibidi" of the late 17th century: "galant".
January 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The "skibidi" of the late 17th century: "galant".
Remembering a classic @kenwhite.bsky.social twitter thread that needs an addition, "If you're trying to purchase a ray gun to kill minorities en masse, and some friends from the KKK offer to help you out, they're Feds."
January 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Remembering a classic @kenwhite.bsky.social twitter thread that needs an addition, "If you're trying to purchase a ray gun to kill minorities en masse, and some friends from the KKK offer to help you out, they're Feds."
3 broken strings on my tenor! It must have been the cold snap and maybe low humidity from heat. The day before a workshop I'm playing tenor on.
By some miracle I have one 10-year-old F4.
Gut strings can be a bother.
By some miracle I have one 10-year-old F4.
Gut strings can be a bother.
January 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
3 broken strings on my tenor! It must have been the cold snap and maybe low humidity from heat. The day before a workshop I'm playing tenor on.
By some miracle I have one 10-year-old F4.
Gut strings can be a bother.
By some miracle I have one 10-year-old F4.
Gut strings can be a bother.