Professor Eva Moreda Rodriguez
- Professor of Musicology (Music)
telephone:
01413302613
email:
Eva.MoredaRodriguez@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Culture and Creative, Arts: Subject of Music, 14 University Gardens
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-1992Research interests
Research interests
- Early history of recording technologies (incl. their cultural/social history and their use as documents for historical performance practice)
- The music of the Franco regime and of the Spanish Republican exile; music and fascism/totalitarianism
- Singing, (art) song, vocal performance practice, vocality (particularly in the Middle Ages and at the turn of the 20th century)
- Digital mapping; Digital Musicology
- The history and practice of music criticism
- Music and literature, music and text, hybrid genres of writing about music
I started my research career as a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish music, focusing on two distinct areas, each of whom resulted in two monographs. My doctoral and post-doctoral research focused, respectively, on music under the Franco regime (Music criticism and music critics in early Francoist Spain, OUP, 2016) and in exile (Music and exile in Francoist Spain, Ashgate, 2015). At a later stage, I undertook research on the arrival of recording technologies to the country (Inventing the recording. The phonograph and national culture in Spain, OUP, 2021; and the forthcoming Singing Zarzuela, 1896-1958: Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings, CUP, 2024).
Working on a relatively circumscribed area, and one existing in the periphery of what is normally understood as Western art music, I have had the opportunity to experiment with and pioneer in this area a multiplicity of different approaches that reflect current and recent developments in musicology and related disciplines. My research on music under Franco started off from a more traditional "music and politics" perspective, and it eventually integrated perspectives from Spanish Exile Studies and Music and Mobility studies in order to explore how Spanish music historiography might make sense of the dictatorship and exile. Similarly, my research on early recording technologies in Spain has covered the topic from a broad range of perspectives: from the development of new discourses on sound from a Historical Sound Studies perspective, to the study of the early development of the music industry in Spain, to the analysis of historical performance practice in singing in turn-of-the-century Spain. I have also been intensely preoccupied by how my findings on Spanish music might change the ways in which we look at the history of recording technologies, music and exile, and music and dictatorship more broadly; such preoccupations have reflected themselves mostly in my edited books.
Key to my research has also been a preoccupation with bringing neglected or forgotten historical repertoires to contemporary audiences, in an attempt at diversifying music programmes and encouraging reflection on how canons and repertoires take shape. I have collaborated with a range of performers and institutions such as Instituto Cervantes Londres and Fundacion Juan March, and I am proud that it was thanks to my work that pieces that had remained largely forgotten since their first performance could have a second opportunity with audiences, as is the case with Josep Valls's songs and Julian Orbon's Libro de cantares. Two recent areas of interest and research have also followed, rather than preceded, public engagement work: firstly, on the basis of my work as a Galician-language novelist, I was invited by a leading Galician-language publisher on traditional music to write a short hybrid essay on a forgotten traditional dance; this has since resulted on further invitations to speak about Galician traditional and historical music. Secondly, my study of singing and of the portative organ in the Middle Ages resulted to a series of invitations to perform and teach at the festival Medieval music in the Dales, and has more recently evolved into a published article on alliteration and consonance in Aquitanian versus.
Grants
- AHRC Research Network funding for the project 'Rethinking Early Recordings as Sources of Music and Performance History' (£40,960), 2021-23. Visit the web of the project here.
- British Academy-Leverhulme Trust Small Grant for the project 'Recording zarzuela in Spain, 1896-1958: Performance practice, canon(s) and national identity', 2019-20. (£7,547.57)
- AHRC Leadership Fellowship for the project 'Early recording cultures in Spain (1877-1905). Towards a transnational history', 2018-9 (£175,689).
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities Scotland Research Incentive Grant for the project 'Making sense of Spanish music historiography: Josep Valls and Simon Tapia Colman', 2017 (£4,445).
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Small Grant for the project ‘Rodolfo Halffter and the Franco regime - music, exile and collaboration', 2014 (£920).
- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Small Grant for the project ‘Writing the exiles back into the history of Spanish music: Salvador Bacarisse and Roberto Gerhard’, 2013 (£2440).
In the past I also received smaller grants from the Music & Letters Trust Award, The John Robertson Bequest and The Lilly Library at the University of Indiana.
Supervision
I welcome enquiries from students interested in working on topics that fall within my research expertise:
- Early history of recording technologies (incl. their cultural/social history and their use as documents for historical performance practice)
- The music of the Franco regime and of the Spanish Republican exile; music and fascism/totalitarianism
- Singing, (art) song, vocal performance practice, vocality (particularly in the Middle Ages and at the turn of the 20th century)
- Digital mapping; Digital Musicology
- The history and practice of music criticism
- Music and literature, music and text, hybrid genres of writing about music
- Holdsworth Quinn, Ashley
Choral Culture in Early Twentieth Century Scotland: Music, Geopolitics, Community - Kitzman, Daniel Robert
(un)Sung: An Investigation into the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Opera Singers’ Artistic Identities and Creativity - Li, Wenjing
The Multiple Voices of Contemporary Chinese Mezzo-soprano: From a Handel's Opera Perspective - Pattie, Ruairidh
Private and Public: Lieder in Clara Schumann’s circle
Additional information
I am currently Head of Music.
I am also the co-editor of the journal Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle
