Rachael Durkin

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• 2024

  On Organology: Introduction to the Organology Special Issue

  Durkin, R., 29 Jul 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Musicological Research. p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

  Open Access

• Phantom Hands Will Live Forever: Reading the Player Piano Anew

  Durkin, R., 2 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Musicological Research. 43, 2-3, p. 222-238 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Pleasing the Wrathful Deities: Ethical Approaches to the Care of Tibetan Skull Drums

  Mulholland, R. & Durkin, R., 30 Aug 2024, In: Studies in Conservation. 69, sup1, p. 256-262 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2023

  Musical Instruments as Nexus Points

  Durkin, R., 14 Sept 2023, p. 65-66. 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• Musical Instruments in the Industrial Age

  Durkin, R., Sept 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• On Organology: Taxonomy and Transdisciplinarity

  Durkin, R. & Martin, D., 19 Sept 2023, The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology. Dromey, C. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Taylor & Francis, p. 285-294 10 p. (Routledge Music Companions).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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• Preserving historical Instruments: The Jeremy Montagu Collection at Northumbria University

  Durkin, R., Aug 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The conflicts of custodianship: navigating the challenges in caring for Tibetan damaru drums

  Durkin, R. & Mulholland, R., Sept 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Ingenious Mr Charles Clagget: Inventor and ‘Harmonizer’ of Musical Instruments

  Durkin, R., 20 Mar 2023, In: The Galpin Society journal. 77, p. 224-247 24 p.

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• ‘Magnificence of promises’: novelty instruments in concert in Britain, c1750–1800

  Durkin, R., 1 May 2023, In: Early Music. 51, 2, p. 234–251 18 p., caad012.

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• 2022

  Anacrusis: Upbeat

  Durkin, R., Dayan, P., Englund, A. & Clausius, K., 27 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Durkin, R. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-3 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature

  Durkin, R. (Editor), Dayan, P. (Editor), Englund, A. (Editor) & Clausius, K. (Editor), 27 May 2022, Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis. 462 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• “To bring a Science to perfection”: Charles Clagget, James Watt and musical innovation

  Durkin, R., 23 Jun 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

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• 2021

  From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy

  Frayn, A. & Durkin, R., 9 Jul 2021, (Unpublished).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Adventure of the Stradivarius: Violins in the Work of Arthur Conan Doyle and William Crawford Honeyman

  Durkin, R., 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 26, 1, p. 54-71 vcaa024.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The Ingenious Mr Charles Clagget: Inventor and Harmonizer of Musical Instruments

  Durkin, R., 4 Jun 2021, The American Musical Instrument Society: 49th Annual Meeting. New York, US, p. 12-13 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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• 2020

  History of the Viol: Hoffmann Bettina, The Viola da Gamba, trans. Paul Ferguson (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)

  Durkin, R., 28 Dec 2020, In: Early Music. 48, 3, p. 399-400 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

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  • Flushing 100%
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• The Player Piano and William Gaddis’s Agapē Agape

  Durkin, R., Sept 2020.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Viola d'Amore: Its History and Development

  Durkin, R., 24 Jul 2020, London: Taylor & Francis. 188 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review

• “The Dickens of Scotland”: William Crawford Honeyman and his (un)detected influence on Arthur Conan Doyle

  Durkin, R., Dec 2020.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• 2019

  Confessions of a Scottish Violinist: William Crawford Honeyman and his contribution to the history of the violin

  Durkin, R., May 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Meet the raunchy dance teachers who helped shape the modern world

  Durkin, R. & Butler, K., 7 Nov 2019, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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• The Devil's Grass-hoppers: Dancing-Masters and Impolite Society

  Durkin, R., Oct 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Words and Music in Nineteenth-Century Europe

  Durkin, R., May 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
• 2018

  BOOK REVIEW: Michael Fleming and John Bryan, Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016)

  Durkin, R., 1 Aug 2018, In: Music and Letters. 99, 3, p. 477-478 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Westworld’s player piano is the great character that keeps getting overlooked

  Durkin, R., 18 Apr 2018, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access
• 2017

  David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven

  Frayn, A. & Durkin, R., 10 Jan 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• Sherlock Holmes and the case of the forged Stradivari: did we miss a vital clue for 130 years?

  Durkin, R., 3 Jul 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

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• She's a Straddle Vawrious at least! The Spurious Stradivari Violin and its Role in the Contextualisation of George MacDonald's Robert Falconer

  Durkin, R., 19 Jul 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Adventure of the Stradivari: Victorian Violin Forgery and Literary Influence in the Sherlock Canon

  Durkin, R., 30 Jun 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society

  Durkin, R., 1 Apr 2017, In: The Galpin Society journal. LXX, p. 65-79 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Seventeenth Century 100%
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  • Design 66%
  • Professional Personnel 33%

• What I discovered inside Edinburgh’s museum of musical instruments

  Durkin, R., 11 May 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access
• 2016

  Towards a new perspective on the history of the viola d'amore

  Durkin, R., 2016, Die so lieblich klinget: Beiträge zum Instrument, zur Musik für Viola d'amore und zu ihrer Geschichte. Helbling Verlag, p. 267 - 276

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• ‘A very mistaken identification’: The ‘Sultana’ or ‘Cither viol’ and its links to the Bowed Psaltery, Viola d’Amore and Guittar.

  Poulopoulos, P. & Durkin, R., 1 May 2016, In: Early Music. 44, 2, p. 307-331

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• 2014

  A barretone, an instrumentt of musicke: its history, influences and development pre-1750

  Durkin, R., Mar 2014, In: The Galpin Society journal. 67, p. 85-107 23 p.

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• The mystery of item 333: an examination of an unidentified instrument

  Durkin, R., May 2014.

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• 2013

  A very mistaken identification: The history of the 'sultana' or 'cither viol'

  Durkin, R. & Poulopoulos, P., Jul 2013.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Neither English nor a viola — the Englische Violet undressed

  Durkin, R., Jul 2013.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

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• The Viola d'Amore - its heritage reconsidered

  Durkin, R., Mar 2013, In: The Galpin Society journal. 66, p. 139-147 9 p.

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• 2012

  Towards a New Perspective on the History of the Viola d’Amore

  Durkin, R., Jun 2012.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • String 100%
  • Institution 50%
  • Hybrid 50%
  • Paper 50%
  • History 50%