Dr Oliver Doyle
@oliverdoyle.bsky.social
Early career musicologist, part-time tenor and harpsichordist. Director musicaantica.org.uk, Historical Performance admin at Royal Academy of Music. Ex-doctoral researcher, ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a year of Italian Printed Books’.
Hard copy of our book arrived!
August 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hard copy of our book arrived!
Gorgeous 17th century house going to ruin on the Three Peaks trail today. Original glass in the windows??
August 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Gorgeous 17th century house going to ruin on the Three Peaks trail today. Original glass in the windows??
The gentrification of Plumstead begins
July 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The gentrification of Plumstead begins
Ridiculous new toy given what I actually need is a new harpsichord, but very grateful to Glenn Braun, who makes instruments that are usually wholly unaffordable accessible - in this case a lira da braccio, one of the go-to instruments for self-accompanied singing in the 15th century!
July 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ridiculous new toy given what I actually need is a new harpsichord, but very grateful to Glenn Braun, who makes instruments that are usually wholly unaffordable accessible - in this case a lira da braccio, one of the go-to instruments for self-accompanied singing in the 15th century!
Circe leaves the room when she hears most music, but apparently loves ars nova keyboard intabulations
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Circe leaves the room when she hears most music, but apparently loves ars nova keyboard intabulations
That might be because I’m writing about Renaissance gender bias
July 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
That might be because I’m writing about Renaissance gender bias
Among many the bizzarre (some terrifying) questions people apparently needed answers to in 1474: ‘why it is better to have a thick neck than a thin one’.
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Among many the bizzarre (some terrifying) questions people apparently needed answers to in 1474: ‘why it is better to have a thick neck than a thin one’.
The result of years of work building an accessible, affordable concert series, without feeling the need to stick to ‘the canon’ of Bach and Handel to draw an audience.
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The result of years of work building an accessible, affordable concert series, without feeling the need to stick to ‘the canon’ of Bach and Handel to draw an audience.
Huascar gets crushed by a rock (ball of paper)
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Huascar gets crushed by a rock (ball of paper)
Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Loads of fun (and a completely full house) doing Rameau’s Les Incas Du Perou with @musicaantica.bsky.social on Saturday. Can’t be many trios in western music that manage to get in a love duet, rage aria and erupting volcano all at once! #se16 #earlymusic
Stopped to have a chat with a lady handing out postcards for a new church on the way to play the organ this morning. Asking her about it, it transpired that this should actually read ‘A church for people who believe women shouldn’t be in any position of authority, anywhere, ever’.
March 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Stopped to have a chat with a lady handing out postcards for a new church on the way to play the organ this morning. Asking her about it, it transpired that this should actually read ‘A church for people who believe women shouldn’t be in any position of authority, anywhere, ever’.
Four years on from Sarah Everard’s murder. We often leave flowers on Clapham Common at this time of year, but this is the first time someone’s memorialised all the women who’ve had their lives taken in similar circumstances since.
March 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Four years on from Sarah Everard’s murder. We often leave flowers on Clapham Common at this time of year, but this is the first time someone’s memorialised all the women who’ve had their lives taken in similar circumstances since.
Loving the ‘where to eat’ that @medren2025.bsky.social has published
January 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Loving the ‘where to eat’ that @medren2025.bsky.social has published
Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle
January 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lovely Marenzio from partbooks and candlelight on Sunday - hoping the audio is as beautiful as the scene looked! Table decoration inspired partly by the description of Imperia Cognati’s music table in Bandello’s Novelle
Lovely new stained glass for Holy Trinity this morning, courtesy of Jonathan Cooke. I have the valley of the shadow of death behind me at the organ, not entirely sure what point that’s making
December 22, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Lovely new stained glass for Holy Trinity this morning, courtesy of Jonathan Cooke. I have the valley of the shadow of death behind me at the organ, not entirely sure what point that’s making
Double theorbo today In Rotherhithe!
November 30, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Double theorbo today In Rotherhithe!
Me! (On behalf of Circe)
November 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Me! (On behalf of Circe)
A few weeks until @musicaantica.bsky.social’s final concert of the year! Tickets for as little as £2, as ever. musicaantica.org.uk #se16 #earlymusic #rotherhithe
November 16, 2024 at 5:16 PM
A few weeks until @musicaantica.bsky.social’s final concert of the year! Tickets for as little as £2, as ever. musicaantica.org.uk #se16 #earlymusic #rotherhithe