Micah Torcellini’s Website
Greetings! I am Micah Torcellini. I originate from the swamps of Connecticut. While my internet reputation primarily concerns Scramble the Duck, in real life I am a M.A. student in musicology at Indiana University. I also enjoy developing websites, thinking about liberal arts in general, and tinkering with harpsichords. If you want to learn more about what I do, my resume might be interesting.
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Simple Pure CSS/HTML Timeline (with Extra Eleventy Integration)
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I wanted a simple historical timeline for a companion website for an academic presentation. I don’t have time to cover all the historical events that might be relevant to people’s own interests, so I...
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Building a Local Newspaper Website with Eleventy
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I recently built a website for the Eastford Communicator. Currently, the Communicator publishes every other month. Because it functions as a periodical, I was able to largely re-use the code for Westm...
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Making Author Pages for an Academic Journal in Eleventy, or, How to Manipulate Collection Data in Eleventy
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I was asked to make pages for the authors in the Westmarch Literary Journal’s website, which I’ve built using Eleventy. Many CMSs provide support for multiple authors and will generate pages for each...
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If You Give a CLAM a Cembalo, or, How to Perform a Concerto
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This last semester, I performed Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major (BWV 1061). I learned a lot about performance through this experience. I suppose that I ought to begin by explaining thi...
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On Bach's Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major
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This post is program notes for a performance. We recorded the performance and posted it on YouTube. The history of J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C Major is somewhat mysterious. The earl...
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Review of Two Songs by Tally Hall
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On occasion, I am asked to understand something which I cannot easily understand. Being asked to examine Tally Hall is an example of this. My initial thoughts were of bewilderment and apprehension, an...
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Erictho and the Manipulation of Memory in Bellum Civile
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This paper was originally published in Westmarch, the Patrick Henry College literary journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (fall 2022). I have published it here with the quotes translated into English. Lucan’s Bellu...
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Church Music is Horrid (Andrew Law, 1803)
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(I admit that I am using John Ahern’s idea for this post format). While I was researching at Old Sturbridge Village for its internship program, I came across Andrew Law’s The Art of Singing, 4th ed. (...
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Review of Bruce Prince-Joseph's Swingin' Harpsichord and Sisask's “Agnus Dei”and “Benedictio.”
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Swingin’ Harpsichord, Bruce Prince-Joseph Harpsichordists are usually associated with pretentious performance of old music which might be hard to understand (hence, names such as the “Academy of Ancie...
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Thou Hast Horrid Harpsichord Technique (Shakespeare Sonnet 128)
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Shakespeare Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway’st The wiry concord that mine ear confoun...
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Review of Michael Kruger’s Canon Revisited
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Michael Kruger tackles the complex issue of the canonicity of the New Testament. The primary point of this volume is to demonstrate that Christians do indeed have good, intellectually sound reasons to...
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John Ahern on the Harpsichord
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John Ahern, writing for First Things, presents an interesting dichotomy of the nature of the harpsichord: it is both more private and also more communal than the piano. The grand piano was built for...