ELSA DE LUCA is an early music scholar pursuing research on medieval chant notations; she is also actively involved in the development of tools for computer-assisted research in early music (mainly databases and automatic music encoding).
Elsa De Luca is currently carrying out palaeographical research into Iberian medieval notation through the research project 'A pre-Gregorian musical repertory under scrutiny: neumes, scribes, and books of the Old Hispanic Chant' (Norma Transitória – DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0085). Elsa has published articles on notation, cryptography, and liturgy in a selection of Iberian and French manuscripts (10th – 16th cent.) and on music encoding. She co-edited with A. Miguélez and E. Loic a special issue of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (14/1, 2022) Connecting the Dots: New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects. Currently, she has two forthcoming books on the palaeography of plainchant from the medieval East and West, both books co-edited with I. Moody and J.F. Goudesenne.
In addition, Elsa is Coordinator of the Portuguese Early Music Database; co-director of the book series Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi, published by Brepols; a member of the CESEM-FCSH editorial committee and review editor for the Portuguese Journal of Musicology new series. She is the PI of the FCT-funded research project Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis (2022.01957.PTDC) that will run from 03/2023-02/2026. The project was ranked first in the 2022 Portuguese national call for research projects in the ‘Arts’. Finally, Elsa will serve as member of the CESEM board of directors from 04/2023. Over the years Elsa has collaborated in eleven research projects in Italy, France, Portugal, the UK and Canada.
Main areas of teaching
Music paleography and codicology
Music encoding (early music)
Music history and analysis (medieval and renaissance music)
Historical performance practice
Keywords
Notation and semiology
Western liturgical chant
Transmission of early medieval chant
Text-music interactions in chant
Digital Humanities applied to musicological research
Iberian Peninsula
Teaching
Elsa welcomes new research students with a broad interest in early music.
IDs
ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-2697
Google Scholar ID z4swOJQAAAAJ&hl
CIÊNCIA ID 051E-2F38-CA4C
Updated on March 2023
