Dr(!?!?) Caro
@itscaro.bsky.social
i like old music, book history, English nuns, & theories on time, space, and gender 💒🎶💖hawt early modernist specialising in music, AHRC post-doc on the ‘Music Heritage and Place’ project (Royal Holloway/ Newcastle University)📚 they/them
Belated announcement - it was a pleasure to have my discoveries in Worcestershire and Norfolk county archives of new Purcell sources covered by the Guardian! When I harp on at my colleagues about how they should make sure to comb archives, carefully this is why…
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Belated announcement - it was a pleasure to have my discoveries in Worcestershire and Norfolk county archives of new Purcell sources covered by the Guardian! When I harp on at my colleagues about how they should make sure to comb archives, carefully this is why…
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
I’m sorry but no fucking way
No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries
No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries
September 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I’m sorry but no fucking way
No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries
No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries
Sometimes I think about how I played viola at junior conservatoire at University of Michigan, & how they helped local state schools send kids to Interlochen every summer. Anyways the Umich head of strings got convicted for child sex trafficking & Jeffrey Epstein had a holiday home at Interlochen
July 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Sometimes I think about how I played viola at junior conservatoire at University of Michigan, & how they helped local state schools send kids to Interlochen every summer. Anyways the Umich head of strings got convicted for child sex trafficking & Jeffrey Epstein had a holiday home at Interlochen
Third article in a year, smashed 💪 if you are interested in convents, English catholic history, French baroque music, and/or material for my forthcoming steamy HBO show in which Francois Couperin fights his friend for the love of his friend’s wife*, check it out ➡️ academic.oup.com/em/article/d...
Convent connections: the musical networks of English convents in France, the exiled Stuart court and the Couperin family
Abstract. Exchanges between French and English musical cultures in early modern Paris have finally begun to receive more scrutiny over the past two decades
academic.oup.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Third article in a year, smashed 💪 if you are interested in convents, English catholic history, French baroque music, and/or material for my forthcoming steamy HBO show in which Francois Couperin fights his friend for the love of his friend’s wife*, check it out ➡️ academic.oup.com/em/article/d...
Second in-person MedRen smashed 💪
Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰
Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰
July 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Second in-person MedRen smashed 💪
Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰
Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰
In hindsight signing up to do two papers at @medren2025.bsky.social might have been overly ambitious
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In hindsight signing up to do two papers at @medren2025.bsky.social might have been overly ambitious
Finally writing my long awaited hater paper for a conference and it is exhilarating
June 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Finally writing my long awaited hater paper for a conference and it is exhilarating
Happy pride, don’t forget to get a nice card for your wife’s bisexual twunk boyfriend and leave out cookies and milk for Cher xxx
June 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Happy pride, don’t forget to get a nice card for your wife’s bisexual twunk boyfriend and leave out cookies and milk for Cher xxx
It took nearly 11 years of the state trying to bankrupt us, wear us down, & destroy any sense that I belonged to a community or family. But they couldn’t, and now, the home office has conceded that I do in fact belong here: I have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. And I ain’t going nowhere.
May 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It took nearly 11 years of the state trying to bankrupt us, wear us down, & destroy any sense that I belonged to a community or family. But they couldn’t, and now, the home office has conceded that I do in fact belong here: I have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. And I ain’t going nowhere.
Today @musicheritageplace.bsky.social premieres on the radio! Tune every day this week to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 9.45 pm into hear about music history, enclosure, social history, and more 🎵
May 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Today @musicheritageplace.bsky.social premieres on the radio! Tune every day this week to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 9.45 pm into hear about music history, enclosure, social history, and more 🎵
I am back at it with EarlyMuse this week in Bern and it has occurred to me I may be 1 of 20-30 people ever to have visited both Bern, Switzerland and Berne, Indiana
A day of news for the project! Check out our latest blog written by team member @itscaro.bsky.social all about a trip to Slovakia to discuss the EarlyMuse initiative to strengthen early music research across Europe. What a privilege to be involved!
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/e6v67n...
www.musicheritageplace.uk/posts/e6v67n...
European endeavours: a report from EarlyMuse working group meetings in Bratislava — Music, Heritage, Place
In mid-March 2025, I travelled to Bratislava to join a meeting of working groups from EarlyMuse, a 4-year initiative that seeks to strengthen the place of early music research across Europe. EarlyMuse...
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May 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am back at it with EarlyMuse this week in Bern and it has occurred to me I may be 1 of 20-30 people ever to have visited both Bern, Switzerland and Berne, Indiana
Well that’s the end of frociaggine Fridays I guess
May 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Well that’s the end of frociaggine Fridays I guess
Solidarity with boomer men everywhere who at some point underwent some form of HRT for cancer treatment and have now found themselves forced-femmed by the UK Supreme Court, u deserve better hunnies xxx
April 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Solidarity with boomer men everywhere who at some point underwent some form of HRT for cancer treatment and have now found themselves forced-femmed by the UK Supreme Court, u deserve better hunnies xxx
Becoming reobssessed with the musical Le Roi du Soleil (2005) and realising that the gender binary consisted of two wolves inside me, both of whom are ready to tank the French economy through hyperinflation, political centralisation of economic decisions, and shiny trinkets
April 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Becoming reobssessed with the musical Le Roi du Soleil (2005) and realising that the gender binary consisted of two wolves inside me, both of whom are ready to tank the French economy through hyperinflation, political centralisation of economic decisions, and shiny trinkets
The thing about trying to get everyone to hate trans people is trans people are extremely funny and therefore it is very hard to get people angry at them, and facists HATE being laughed at. Oxford will always be queer, no matter how many busloads of boomer freaks the uni invites onto our streets ✊
April 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The thing about trying to get everyone to hate trans people is trans people are extremely funny and therefore it is very hard to get people angry at them, and facists HATE being laughed at. Oxford will always be queer, no matter how many busloads of boomer freaks the uni invites onto our streets ✊
Reposted by Dr(!?!?) Caro
632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
We Are The 632: University of Dundee staff speak out
YouTube video by Dundee UCU
youtu.be
March 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.
Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632
youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI
Very much enjoyed repping @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in Bratislava last week! Great to get down to the nitty gritty philosophical, technical, and technological challenges for a new musicological ecosystem last week with the EarlyMuse project 💪🇸🇰
March 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Very much enjoyed repping @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in Bratislava last week! Great to get down to the nitty gritty philosophical, technical, and technological challenges for a new musicological ecosystem last week with the EarlyMuse project 💪🇸🇰
Last bits of study for the Basilinda Consort’s first festival performance this Thursday! Come along to the Keble Early Music Festival at @kebleoxford.bsky.social Thursday night to hear some fabulous baroque music for upper voices, feat. new research into early modern exiled English convents 💒🎶👰
February 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Last bits of study for the Basilinda Consort’s first festival performance this Thursday! Come along to the Keble Early Music Festival at @kebleoxford.bsky.social Thursday night to hear some fabulous baroque music for upper voices, feat. new research into early modern exiled English convents 💒🎶👰
The temptation to use this for the AHRC project website
January 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The temptation to use this for the AHRC project website
Musicology is when you have an extra spicy cigarette and listen to this on repeat for two hours
January 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Musicology is when you have an extra spicy cigarette and listen to this on repeat for two hours
Another article out! This time new research from *beyond the thesis* 😱 if you like book history, early music, and history of music education, with a particular focus on english women, check it out 🙃https://tinyurl.com/aca74a27
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Another article out! This time new research from *beyond the thesis* 😱 if you like book history, early music, and history of music education, with a particular focus on english women, check it out 🙃https://tinyurl.com/aca74a27
Thrilled to say my article on a musical miscellany from Douai Municipal Library has been published (open access) by the Royal Musicological Association Research Chronicle ☺️💪 tinyurl.com/32m5v4xv if you’re interested in early modern English Catholicism, musical networks, & book history, check it out!
September 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Thrilled to say my article on a musical miscellany from Douai Municipal Library has been published (open access) by the Royal Musicological Association Research Chronicle ☺️💪 tinyurl.com/32m5v4xv if you’re interested in early modern English Catholicism, musical networks, & book history, check it out!
Gender is a spectrum between ski hats and shimmery eye shadow, kill the gender cop inside your head
December 30, 2023 at 4:58 PM
Gender is a spectrum between ski hats and shimmery eye shadow, kill the gender cop inside your head
All I’m saying is IREMUS have started working on an early modern music handwriting database, and if it’s one thing that will get a grant application for an English counterpart over the line it’s that we cannot let the French best us
December 29, 2023 at 4:02 PM
All I’m saying is IREMUS have started working on an early modern music handwriting database, and if it’s one thing that will get a grant application for an English counterpart over the line it’s that we cannot let the French best us
Ich bin on the radio ! If you’re looking for chat on carols, convents, and music book history, look no further than this BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’ podcast episode, hosted by @leahbroad.bsky.social ⬇️
t.co/DiOLWXtCzN
t.co/DiOLWXtCzN
December 22, 2023 at 10:15 AM
Ich bin on the radio ! If you’re looking for chat on carols, convents, and music book history, look no further than this BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’ podcast episode, hosted by @leahbroad.bsky.social ⬇️
t.co/DiOLWXtCzN
t.co/DiOLWXtCzN