SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

Research seminars (all invited papers)

1. 2024 Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts. Lecture series “CODAMUS: Computational and Digital Approaches to Music Scholarship”. Würzburg University, Germany. January 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baz6-sZragQ&feature=youtu.be 

2. 2022  At the Roots of European Spirituality – Early Christian Music from East and West. Universidad de Salamanca - Medieval Manuscripts Seminar series. 01/04 

3. 2021 Notazioni neumatiche in Iberia: manoscritti e metodologie della ricerca tra passato e futuro . Conservatorio di Musica ‘Niccolò Piccinni’ - Dipartimento di Musica Antica, Bari. 13/09

4. 2021 The ABC of Plainchant. Liturgical Books and Notation. Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, CESEM - Porto 05/06

5. 2020 Silent Music, Secret Writing: An Overview of Old Hispanic Notation and Visigothic Cryptography. Musicology Forum, Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California (online). 11/12. 

6. 2020 The ‘Portuguese Early Music Database’  (Research seminar) and the ‘Music Encoding Initiative’ (Workshop I, II - with Martha E. Thomae, McGill University);  Conference and workshop series: Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I. Academy of Science, Prague, 22-30/06  

7. 2018 (Chaves, Z.; De Luca, E.; Poliakova, S.) Manuscritos litúrgico-musicais entre o Leste e o Oeste: Sticheraria e Antifonários. CESEM-FCSH/NOVA, 12/03 

8. 2017 Music Palaeography of Old Hispanic Manuscripts. CESEM-FCSH/NOVA, 04/05 

9. 2017 (Chaves, Z.; De Luca, E.) Having Fun with Plainchant in PEM. CESEM-FCSH/NOVA, 08/02

10. 2015  Undecipherable Music: Cracking the Code of Old Hispanic Notation. Research seminar. University of Bristol, 27/10

Papers at conferences (all peer reviewed)

1. 2025 (Phan, Thomae, De Luca, Orio) Analyser Tool for MEI Neumes Encoded Chants. Music Encoding Conference. London, UK 3-6/06

2. 2024 Looking Ahead: Addressing Challenges, Strengthening Teamwork, and Building Future Strategies for the Portuguese Early Music Database. Jornadas Internacionales de Investigación - Polifonías hispánicas (ss. XVI-XIX): transmisión, oralidad, pervivencias y aproximaciones digitalesv. Baeza, Spain, 4-5/12

3. 2024 MEI Analyser: Uma nova ferramenta para analise digital de cantochão português. XIII Encontro de Investigação em Música, Conservatório Regional do Algarve – Maria Campina, 7-8-9/11 

4. 2024    (De Luca, Thomae, Ferreira) ECHOES. An Interface for the Automatic Analysis of Plainchant. XX Meeting of the IMS Study Group ‘Cantus Planus. Gödöllő, Hungary, 30-31/07-03/08

5. 2024 (Thomae, Phan, De Luca). Enhancing Musicological Analysis through Digital Tools. Conference Digital Technologies Applied to Music

Research. Methodologies, Projects and Challenges. Lisbon, 27-29/6 

6. 2024  (De Luca, Thomae, Urones) Encoding and Analysis of Early Music: Aquitanian and Square Music Scripts. Music Encoding Conference. University of North Texas, USA, 20- 23/05/2024

7. 2024 (De Luca, Nunes Trindade, Orio, Thomae) De Pergaminho a Biblioteca Digital: O Cantochão de Braga e Guimarães como Estudo de Caso. 4º Encontro Nacional de Investigadores IN2PAST. Lisbon, 1-2/2/24

8. 2023    ‘Invited paper’ MEI for Neumes. One-day Symposium as part of the Centuries of Silence Exhibition. Namur University, Belgium 01/12

9. 2023  (De Luca, E.; Pinto, T.) Novas ferramentas de análise musical digital: o cantochão de Braga como estudo de caso. XII Encontro de Investigação em Música. Mafra, Portugal, 28/9-1/10

10. 2023   (De Luca, E.; Behrendt, I.; Fujinaga, I.; Helsen, K.; Morent, S..) Visual or Symbolic? Best Practices for Encoding Neumes. Encoding Cultures – joint MEC and TEI Conference. Heinz Nixdorf Institut of Paderborn University, Germany, 4-8/09/.  pdf on Humanities Commons

11. 2023  (De Luca, E.; Alexandru, M.; Fujinaga, I.) Brainstorming on the Encoding of Eastern Neumes: Middle-Byzantine Notation as a Case-Study. Encoding Cultures – joint MEC and TEI Conference. Heinz Nixdorf Institut of Paderborn University, Germany, 4-8/09/. pdf on Humanities Commons

12. 2023    (De Luca, E.; Castro Correa, A.) A Newly Discovered Source of Old Hispanic Notation. Lost & Found: Traces of Early Music. Auditorium of the Cascais Cultural Centre, Cascais, Portugal, 19-22/07.

13. 2022    Early Music across Borders: Methodologies for Paleographical Research. 21st Quinquennial International Musicological Studies Congress, School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 22-26/08.

14. 2022     Challenging the MEI Neumes Module: Encoding Armenian Neumes (De Luca, Utidjian). Music Encoding Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 19-22/05.

15. 2022     Plainchant Across Traditions: Methodologies for Research. 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI, USA. 9-14/05.

16. 2021    Music & Liturgy in Medieval Portugal: Plainchant Fragments in Braga and Guimarães. 49th Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, NOVA University of Lisbon, 5-9/07.

17. 2020    ‘Invited paper’ Aquitanian Notation in Iberia: Semitone-marking in the Fragments in Braga and Guimarães. Conference The image of piety in medieval manuscripts in Slovakia and in Europe. Bratislava, 8-9 October. 

18. 2020    Old Hispanic Notation: Peculiarities of an Iberian-Frankish Music Script. XX Meeting of the IMS Study Group ‘Cantus Planus. University Study Centre of the Masaryk University, Telč, 15-19/07. POSTPONED

19. 2020  Refining computational approaches to digitized chant manuscripts (Lacoste, D.; Bain, J.; Behrendt, I.; De Luca, E.; Fujinaga, I.; Helsen, K,; Ignesti, A.; Long, S.; Vigliensoni, G.) XX Meeting of the IMS Study Group ‘Cantus Planus.  POSTPONED

20. 2019    The music scribes of the León Antiphoner: layers of interventions on the notation. IX Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música. Lisbon, 14–16/11

21. 2019    Nuove prospettive di ricerca paleografica nelle notazioni neumatiche iberiche. XXVI Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Musicologia. University of Basilicata, 18-20/10

22. 2019    (De Luca, E.; Bain, J.; Behrendt, I.; Fujinaga, I.; Helsen, K.; Ignesti, A.; Lacoste, D.; Long, S.) Cantus Ultimus’ MEI Neume Module and its Interoperability Across Chant Notations. Music Encoding Conference. University of Vienna, 29/5-1/6.  Abstract available here

23. 2019    Tackling Iberian Plainchant Fragments: the Dissemination of the Special Punctum in Braga and Guimarães. 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, 9–12/5

24. 2018    (Helsen, K.; Bain, J.; Behrendt, De Luca, E.; Fujinaga, I.; Ignesti, A.;  Lacoste, D.; Long, S.) “A neume by any other name…”: Considering Neumes described in MEI. Panel Discussion. Cantus Planus. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden, 7-12/8

25. 2018    ‘Invited paper’ La notación del Antifonario de León: desafíos paleógraficos y nuevos descubrimientos. Congreso Internacional Música y espacios sonoros en las instituciones civiles y eclesiásticas de la península ibérica hasta el siglo XVI. Guadalupe, Spain 6–7/4 

26. 2017    The Neumes of the León Antiphoner: Written and Oral Transmission in Old Hispanic Chant. Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Rochester, 9–12/11. Abstract in Program and Abstracts of Papers Read, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society Rochester, 9–12/11 2017, pp. 262–3 ISSN 0893-1305 

27. 2017    The Portuguese Early Music Database. Interdisciplinary Conference on Iberian Manuscripts. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 19–21/10 

28. 2017    Old Hispanic Neumes and the Music Encoding Initiative. Workshop on SIMSSA XIII. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada, 22/09/2017 

29. 2017    (Boudeau, O.; De Luca, E.) Correction, erreur et variante: l’exemple du plain-chant médiéval. 1st International French-Italian Symposium “Philology and Musicology”. Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France, 22–27/05 

30. 2017    The Music of the León Antiphoner. 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, 11–14/05 

31. 2017    Changes in Old Hispanic Notation in the Tenth and Eleventh Century, March 19-23, 2017, Tokyo. International Musicological Society 20th Quinquennial Congress. Presentation in the ‘Cantus Planus’ Study Session 

32. 2016    A Gradual from Sens in Lisbon. VI Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música. Aveiro (Portugal), 3–5/11 

33. 2016    Scribal Habits in the León Antiphoner. XVIII Meeting of the IMS Study Group ‘Cantus Planus’. Dublin, 2–6/08

34. 2016    ‘Invited paper’ Italian and French Elements in the Plainchant of the Basilica of St. Nicolas in Bari. Conference The Poetics of Christian Performance: Prayer, Liturgy, and Their Environments in East and West. Center for the Study of Christianity and Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 19–22/06 

35. 2016    Encoding Old Hispanic Neumes. Music Encoding Conference. McGill University, Montréal, 17–20/05 

36. 2016    The Early History of the León Antiphoner. 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, 12–15/05 

37. 2016    ‘Invited paper’ The Dating and Early History of the León Antiphoner. Plainsong & Medieval Music Society's Annual Study Day. Newcastle, 09/04  

38. 2015    Musical Cryptography: an Elitist Code for Visigothic Scribes. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. Brussels, 6–9/07 

39. 2015    ‘Invited paper’ Liturgical Manuscripts as Royal Insignia: Monograms in the León Antiphonary. Senses of Liturgy Conference. University of Bristol, 21–22/05

40. 2014    Um caso de escrita criptográfica musical no Antifonário de León. III Simpósio Internacional de Música Ibero-Americana. Queluz-Oeiras-Lisboa, 12–15/10 

41. 2014    A Taxonomy of León 8’s Notation. XVII Meeting of the IMS Study Group ‘Cantus Planus’. Venice, 28/07–01/08

42. 2014    Towards a Taxonomy of the Old Hispanic Notations: The Chant Editing and Analysis Programme. International Medieval Congress. Leeds, 7–10/07 

43. 2014    Reading Non-Pitch Readable Neumes: the Case of the León Antiphonary. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. Birmingham, 3–6/07 

44. 2014    ‘Invited paper’ Introducing the Palaeography of Old Hispanic Vertical Notation. Plainsong and Medieval Music Society Annual Study Day. British Library, 29/03 

45. 2014    Reading Non-Pitch Readable Notations: the Case of the Old Hispanic Neumes. Religion, culture and imagination research cluster half-day conference. Bristol University, 06/03

46. 2013    ‘Invited paper’ Le prose nei manoscritti francesi della Basilica di San Nicola. Secondo Seminario Internazionale ‘Celesti Sirene’. San Severo (FG), Italy, 11–13/10 

47. 2013    ‘Invited paper’ Liturgy at Sainte-Chapelle of Bari: the Prosas and Other Paleographical Insights. LVIe Colloque international d’Études Humanistes «Les Saintes-Chapelles du XIIIe au XVIIIe siècle». Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance–Université François-Rabelais, Tours, 26–28/06 

48. 2012    O manuscrito Iluminado 84 da Biblioteca Nacional: música e liturgia francesas em Portugal. II Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música / Second National Conference Of Music Research. Castelo Branco, Portugal, November 

49. 2012    Italian and French Elements in the Plainchant of the Basilica of St. Nicolas in Bari. Cantus Planus Day – 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society. Rome, July

50. 2012    ‘Invited paper’ The ‘Portuguese Early Music’ Database. International Colloquium Musical Exchanges 1100–1650: The Circulation of Early Music in Europe and Overseas in Iberian and Iberian-Related Sources. Lisbon, June

51. 2012    ‘Invited paper’ A Gradual from Sens (c. 1400) at the Biblioteca Nacional in Lisbon. International Colloquium Musical Exchanges 1100–1650: The Circulation of Early Music in Europe and Overseas in Iberian and Iberian-Related Sources. Lisbon, June

52. 2012    The Graduale Fulltext Database: A New Online Tool for Studying Mass Sources. 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 

53. 2012    Os fragmentos de canto gregoriano português na base de dados ‘Portuguese Early Music’. I Encontro Ibero-Americano de Jovens Musicólogos. Lisbon, February

54. 2011    Fragmentos de Pergaminho: Novas evidências no canto gregoriano portugués. I Encontro Nacional De Investigação Em Música. Porto, November 

55. 2010    ‘Invited paper’ La Sainte-Chapelle de Bari: Liturgie et Musique. Séminaire de recherche en musicologie Section Saintes-Chapelles Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance. Tours, June

56. 2008    Il canto dell’Exultet nell’antica liturgia beneventana. XV Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Musicologia. Bergamo, October 

57. 2008    Il canto dell'Exultet nella liturgia beneventana e gli sviluppi della tradizione. Sesto Incontro di Studio di Analitica / Sixth Conference of Musical Analysis. Conservatory of Rimini, October 

58. 2007   (De Luca, E.; Marangi, V.) Il sito web, i materiali e gli strumenti di consultazione del Progetto RAPHAEL – Rhythmic and Proportional Hidden or Actual Elements in Plainchant: Computerized Census and Integral Restoration of a Neglected Musical Repertoire [RAPHAEL project]. XIV Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Musicologia. University of Pescara, October 

59. 2006    ‘Invited paper’ Considerazioni su alcuni Kyriali della Biblioteca Feininger. Conference ‘Il canto fratto in Italia’. University of Lecce (Italy), October

Workshops

1. 2024 Workshop de escrita académica. Universidade do Porto, Portugal. 17-18/10

2. 2024 (De Luca, Thomae) Encoding Neumes with MEI. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen). Universidad de Granada 6-9/7 

3. 2023 XV Workshop de Estudos Medievais. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto 13-14/04

4. 2023 Music Manuscripts Reborn Digital: The Portuguese Early Music Database as Case-study. COST, Workshop ‘A new ecosystem of early music studies’, Working group ‘Sources’ of COST, 06/03.

5. 2023   (Alexandru, M. ; De Luca, E. ; Siklafidis, N.;  Ioannidou, A.) Preliminary Thoughts on the Encoding of Byzantine Notation with MEI. Workshop 12, MEI and DACT (online). 13/01

6. 2023 (Utidjian, H. ; De Luca, E.) Armenian Notation and MEI. Workshop 12, MEI and DACT (online). 13/01

7. 2020 (De Luca, E.; Thomae, M.) The ‘Music Encoding Initiative’ (Two Workshops led with M. Thomae, McGill University). Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I. Academy of Science, Prague 24-29-30/06

8. 2017 Old Hispanic Neumes and the Music Encoding Initiative. Workshop on SIMSSA XIII. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada 22/09

Posters

1. 2025 (Orio, De Luca) Echoes MEI Analyser: uma nova ferramenta para a analise digital de cantochão português. 5º Encontro nacional de investigadores/as do IN2PAST. Braga (Portugal), January

2. 2013   (De Luca, E.; Koláček, J.; Lacoste, D.) CANTUS Index: Building an Online Network of Chant Databases for Mass and Office. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. Certaldo (Italy), July

3. 2008    (De Luca, E.; Marangi, V.) Le nuove tecnologie applicate alla musica: il sito web del progetto RAPHAEL sul canto fratto. Il ‘nuovo’ in musica e in musicologia: estetiche tecnologie linguaggi. University of Trento, January