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Orest Ranum is professor emeritus of history at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Orest's pages consist primarily of book reviews, but he also provides a few unpublished articles and some syllabi, plus tributes to late friends. In addition, visiting historians have agreed to have papers hosted on our site. 

Orest's half of the site is called: "Orest Ranum's Panat Times"

Patricia M. Ranum is an independent scholar who spends three-quarters of the year in Baltimore, Maryland, and three months in our hill village, Panat.

Patricia's pages consist primarily of "Musings" on musicological subjects, principally about composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), but also about word-music relations in French vernacular and Latin song.

Patricia's half of the site is called: "Patricia Ranum's Musicological Musings"

    Working exclusively on French Baroque music, I wear two hats, so to speak:
When I don the first of these hats I become the biographer of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, whose world is now available in my Portraits around Marc-Antoine Charpentier, available at http://www.ranum.com/pmr and which, since early 2007, can be purchased for a sharply reduced price, at Amazon.com: simply click the box below to go to the Amazon.com page.

    When I don the other hat, I become the "Word Lady," who takes great pleasure in coaching singers in the intricacies of French musical rhetoric (and who has laid those secrets out in her The Harmonic Orator, available through Pendragon Press, http://www.pendragonpress.com

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