Ross W. Duffin

@rosswmd.bsky.social

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Music professor (retired) & author, tune detective, Canadian ex-pat Pasadena CA & Washington DC

Song lyric to the tune of Sumer is icumen in.
A harpsichord with two manuals by Pleyel, made for Wanda Landowska.
A man sits in an armchair, listening to an old-fashioned stereo system, while in the manner of a jazz radio announcement, the players of instruments of varying antiquity are named as part of an incongruous "early music" ensemble.
One woman and four men on TV. The woman has full tresses while all three men have shaved heads.
Basswood blossoms on a tree.
Blue jay vigorously splashing itself in a fountain-birdbath.
Blue jay sitting on the rim of a fountain-birdbath.
Cover of Dave Barry's book, "Homes and other black holes," with a man emptying a wheelbarrow full of cash into an apparent house foundation.
White-haired bearded man standing by a painting of a soldier who looks similar.
Derelict US Army WW2 jeep on a suburban street.
Photo portrait of Bonnie Blackburn
Side-by-side image of Biohazard warning label with detail of Robin Goodfellow character named in Midsummer Night's Dream, from a broadside ballad woodcut, relabeled Brohazard.
Photo of a bearded man beside a tree-lined street with parked cars.
Paper bags with songs from Shakespeare printed in the side.
UBTECH humanoid robotic army.
AI-generated image of Kivie Cahn-Lipman playing a cello. The player has three arms and three legs, and the cello has two necks.
Old car, faded paint, covered in accumulated grime, with an etched notice for an antitheft system.
A duck at No Kings.
A ginger-colored puppy on a blanket.
Halloween yard sign saying “Beware” and pointing to the right.
Wedding couple, Leonard Neary and Jeanne Thébault, at St Michael's Cornhill, London, on February 25, 1939. Photo by William Nelson.
Portrait of Mary Oleskiewicz, smiling and holding a baroque flute made of ivory.
Parrot eating a fig in a fig tree.
Peacock atop a chimney.
Judy Collins onstage at Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress.
Randy Rainbow onstage in his live show in DC.
Ball kids spelling 100 on the court in honor of Novak Djokovic’s 100th tournament win.
Flyer for the book, 'Unmasked', reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques.
Violinist Mark Fewer with Ross Duffin, and the Ole Bull Strad violin.
King’s College Choir ready to perform at Washington National Cathedral.
Giant crowd at the DC Hands Off protest
White dogwood trees in Capitol Hill, DC.
Cover of the book “Unmasked: Lost Music for the 1613 Palatine Wedding Masques” (OUP, 2025).
Branches broken off in the wind. Pasadena, CA January 2025
Scrap of a hymn, burned in the Eaton Canyon Fire, that floated 2.5 miles south.
Sun setting through the smoke of the Eaton Canyon Fire in Pasadena, Jan. 8, 2025.
Prof. William Mahrt, seated, with two of his former students, Ross Duffin and Kerry McCarthy standing behind. Photo taken by Beverly Simmons in August 2023.
Abstract for the article, "Donne's Lost Songs," by Ross W. Duffin, in the John Donne Journal, vol. 38 (2020–21; printed 2024).
The first page of the article "Donne's Lost Songs" by Ross W. Duffin, in the John Donne Journal, vol. 38 (2020–21).
An cord for an electric car, running across a public sidewalk, with a cover to try to prevent tripping.
This is the cover of the forthcoming book, Unmasked: Lost Music for the 1613 Palatine Wedding Masques. The image shows drawing of a "fiery spirit": a costume design by Inigo Jones for the Lords' Masque.