Eva Moreda Rodriguez Inaugural Lecture
Join us for Professor Eva Moreda Rodriguez's Inaugural Lecture: Roman de Silence - medieval music, voice and the performance of gender
ARC Public | School of Culture & Creative Arts | College of Arts & Humanities
Date: Tuesday 04 March 2025
Time: 17:15 - 19:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Category: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Eva Moreda Rodriguez
The sole work penned by Heldris of Cornwall, the early-thirteenth-century Roman de Silence tells the story of a girl of noble birth who is raised as a boy to circumvent a royal ban on female inheritance. For my inaugural professorial event, I have decided to put together a programme of medieval music performed on voice and portative organ that seeks to expand some discussions within Historical Informed Performance to the realm of programming, beyond matters of style and technique. Thus, rather than reconstructing authentic performance of a Roman, the programme seeks to illustrate Silence’s story and explore a range of binaries that emerge from the text, which exist alongside the gender binary and perhaps enhance of our understanding of it: narrative and non-narrative; musical and non-musical; instrumental and vocal; the court and its Others.