The Three-Foot Rule

A video of Professor Graeme Gooday (singing) and Dr Ben Marsden (on the piano) performing Rakine's metrical ode at the BSHS Conference in Aberdeen is now available online here.

ODE, for Musick. On the LONGITUDE.

See here.

The Sound of Science

Online here.

CultureLab: Music archive

Musical posts from the New Scientists' 'CultureLab' blog are archived here.

Mathematics Songs

Written by Kenneth Falconer

http://www-maths.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~kenneth/poems.html

http://www.lms.ac.uk/newsletter/384/384_10.html

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w8nr140tq484j6t6/fulltext.pdf

http://www.sultanik.com/Blog:Modern_Mathematician

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~robbin/funnysongs.html

Musical events at the British Science Festival

Several musical events are planned for the upcoming British Science Festival, which takes place from 14th-19th September in Birmingham:

• Powers of Ten: A Musical Journey from Quark to Cosmos (presented by Singtastic)
• Amoeba to Zebra (presented by Being 747)
  
• The Rap Guide to Evolution (presented by Baba Brinkman)

Click on the links for further information or to book tickets.

Songs of Science @ BSHS Aberdeen

A 'Songs of Science' session was held on Saturday 24th July as part of the British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference at the University of Aberdeen. Recordings of the 9 performances will soon be made available on the Society website; until then, here are a few images...

They Might be Giants

The Mathematician in Love

From William J. Macquorn Rankine, Songs and Fables (Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1874): 3-6. Online here.