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Austin Glatthorn

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Musicologist & cultural historian, Royal Northern College of Music | Fellow, Royal Historical Society | Author, ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (CUP) | Editor, 'Eighteenth-Century Music' | Current project: 'The Cambridge History of German Opera'

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Acknowledging his employer’s fondness for the hunt, Antonio #Rosetti let the horns do some ‘barking’ in the closing movement of his ‘hunting’ Partita for winds in F Major. #Harmoniemusik youtu.be/vfqCq2vF86Y?...

Partita in F Major, M. B18: IV. Finale. Allegro à la chasse

YouTube video by Amphion Wind Ensemble - Topic

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

A paper model of the Schwarzenberg #theatre (1766) in Český Krumlov. It’s a nice reminder of my last two summers teaching there. I can’t wait to revisit it again.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

I knew you’d be able to help us out with that! 😉

Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

In 1784, Goez helped a theatre company of nobles stage 'Lenardo und Blandine' in Augsburg. His 'Versuch' and its engravings constitute an important source for those studying the interaction of music, declamation, and gesture in eighteenth-century acting.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 1d

'Lenardo und Blandine' premiered in Munich in 1779 with #music by Peter von Winter. The #melodrama's author, J.F. von Goez, was not only a playwright, but also an illustrator whose treatise on movement, declamation, and expression includes 160 engravings from the work—essentially a graphic novel.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 2d

“In a well-known symphony by Kapellmeister #Haydn, the orchestra gets smaller and smaller by the departure of musicians in the Finale. Here is the opposite…” J. #Sperger’s ‘Arrival’ #symphony begins with two musicians and grows as more join throughout. youtu.be/hhTGCZGJKzI

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jun 28

Here is a little story about the #earlymodern emoticon "<3" and the complex symbolic meaning of this typographical entity that I posted yesterday. Follow me, for catholic symbolism and some #bookhistory, dear #skystorians of the blue skies. Here we go...

A detail from a page of a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon: <3 . The typographical entity highlighted consists of a the letter "i", the number "3", the word "HOMO" (in which all letters are crossed out except for the "M"), a small "z" as part of the M, and the mentioned emoticon: a "V" with a "3" on top.

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Sonya Cronin @sonyalcronin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Likely a long shot, but might any #earlymodern musicologists be able to identify these bars? There are numerous settings by Campion, Morley, Gautier in this Scottish ms, so I wondered if it was recognisable as any of theirs, or indeed someone else’s. As a lit historian, it’s beyond me, sadly.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Here is the Queen of the Night’s costume, from Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, depicted in 1794. The accompanying text noted the opera’s renown, but still explained the scene for early audiences.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you, Neil!

Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you 🙏

Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you, Laurie! 😊

Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Aug 1

Today is my first day as Head of Research Management and Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music!

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jul 27

In July 1792, the Mainz National #Theatre premiered the #opera ‘Heinrich der Löwe’ at the imperial coronation of Franz II in Frankfurt am Main, the last of the #HRE. Despite evidence of subsequent performances into the nineteenth century, very little of its #music has been found.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jul 27

Finally getting to Jacqueline’s ‘Speaking German Musically’!

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jun 16

Day 1 of 2 of Estates Theatre fun.

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jun 6

Agreed!
It is not too bad at the moment, especially during the week. Weekends are a bit busier.

Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jun 1

And of course revisit its stunning eighteenth-century #theatre…

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Jun 1

It’s lovely being back in Český Krumlov. Can’t wait to introduce a new group of students to the town and region, and host a conference here later this month.

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · May 22

Event at UCL on 29 May 6pm to celebrate publication of Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800. Join @jasminekt.bsky.social & me, in discussion with Simon Werrett & Tim Boon #histsci #earlymodern #18thcentury #londonhistory

www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Book cover for Metropolitan Science, by Rebekah Higgitt and Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin with Noah Moxham, published by Bloomsbury. The top half of the cover is a detail of a 17thC map of London.

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · May 19

Today's marginal #musicians are a selection of #pipers from Zeghere van Male's #chansonnier, c1542
Ca Ms 125-128, 1542
www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1669/

#earlymusic #earlymodern #16thCentury #illuminatedmanuscript #marginaliamonday #sheetmusic #piper

16th Century musicians (pipers) leaning on a musical stave

Seated shepherd playing the pipe next to a sleeping dog. Illustration in a 16th Century music manuscript

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Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social · May 12

Baroque music in #manchester 🥳

Manchester Baroque @manchesterbaroque.bsky.social · May 12

📢What's on this week📢

🎵'Musick' in Manchester 1744/45🎵
Join Manchester Baroque as we reconstruct a concert programme that took place in our city in May 1745.🐝

📌Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm St Ann's Church, Manchester
🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/man...
Thanks @continuoconnect.bsky.social

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · May 9

Jacqueline Waeber is a world-leading expert on (musical) #melodrama, and her work on the topic is largely responsible for my own interest in the genre. I can't wait to see the results of her latest study:
boydellandbrewer.com/978183765214...

Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820 - Boydell and Brewer

Shows how poetic recitation and the interweaving of music and poetry contributed to the advent of a German identity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-...

boydellandbrewer.com

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · Apr 26

I’m delighted to have been awarded SSHRC funding to support an international workshop in Český Krumlov. It will be the capstone to our ‘Cambridge History of German Opera to the Early 19c’, where contributors will discuss #earlymodern #German #music and #theatre (and see an opera on an 18c stage)!

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