Chris Scobie

Composer, library worker, pianist

[Brian Andrew Inglis @BrianAInglis]

Great to finally see this as a physical reality! Enjoying the pattern clash with Dr Smith's William Morris wallpaper too... @routledgebooks

[Sound Archive @soundarchive]

Nice video (with French commentray) about Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's sound recordings made in Paris in 1857, two decades before Edison's invention of the phonograph https://t.co/22vJDOWSfT

[Sound Archive @soundarchive]

Hear Christmas carols from Alan Turing's computer, an utterly new sound for radio listeners in 1951 - "the most expensive and most elaborate method of playing a tune that has ever been devised" https://t.co/XJjgqeIebX

[Sound Archive @soundarchive]

Recording of the week: the Curlew's soulful lament - Sound and vision blog https://t.co/PyBhZdV04t

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

Some #Beethoven autograph manuscripts and documents locked up and ready to be shown on television! More details in the months to come! #blmusic

[NASA @NASA]

#DYK that stellar explosions & their remains -- supernova remnants -- are a source of elements essential for life? A new @Chandraxray image captures several crucial elements located on Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant ~11,000 light years from Earth: https://t.co/yjC1JB41wy

[Guardian Classical @GdnClassical]

Alkan: 12 Etudes, Op 35 review – Viner rises to Alkan's extraordinary challenges https://t.co/zERjhfBHz8

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

oh yes! #christmas is a coming! #blmusic

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

#today is the 204th anniversary of the birth of Charles-Valentin #Alkan. Here shown is his #manuscript for 'Alleluia' Op. 25 (then called 'Sing praises unto the lord') from our #blmusic collections.

[NASA @NASA]

From his vantage point aboard @Space_Station, @Astro2fish shared photos of this glowing green aurora: https://t.co/DASBs45V0b

[NASA @NASA]

Not a rainbow, but a ring-bow. Although the rings lack the many colors, they still arc across the sky of Saturn: https://t.co/8Zw9kVKXmA

[Chris Scobie @scobiechris]

BL study day on Malcolm Sargent 9 September https://t.co/F9RDC4zeNI @bbcproms @BL_Music_Colls

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

Bringing forgotten operas life: how one London opera company is using @britishlibrary's collections to do just that https://t.co/syO7A7MKV0

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

Especially for #monteverdi450, here's some info on a selection of @britishlibrary's #Monteverdi treasures https://t.co/eJfReiL1lG

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

Our latest digitised music manuscript is Add MS 29996 - motets & madrigals by Thomas Tomkins & others https://t.co/I5qfGo6WOI #blmusic

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

Yoda, you seek Yoda? Try the margins of medieval manuscripts https://t.co/fUFQDF4qD2 #MaytheFourthBeWithYou

[NASA @NASA]

What did it sound like when @CassiniSaturn dove btwn the planet & its rings on 4/26? Quieter than you think! Listen: https://t.co/JmT4dgzuoj

[Bibliophilia @Libroantiguo]

The oldest known dictionaries are cuneiform tablets with biliingual wordlists in Sumerian and Akkadian.
2st century BC.📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Cassini's Final View of Home https://t.co/gitPA1m9H4 #NASA

[🎼British Library Music Collections 🎵 @BL_Music_Colls]

Ruggero #Leoncavallo meets the queen - our latest blog post is now live https://t.co/jyWT3JrCWw #blmusic