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ELSA DE LUCA is Assistant Professor of Early Music at NOVA University Lisbon and is deeply involved in the development of tools for computer-assisted research in early music, particularly databases and the automatic encoding of plainchant. She leads the interdisciplinary research project Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis (2022.01957.PTDC). Echoes was awarded €249,506.19 in funding and it was ranked first in the 2022 Portuguese national call for research projects in the 'Arts' category.
Elsa has published extensively on musical notation, cryptography, and liturgy in Iberian and French manuscripts in Early Music History, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, MusikTheorie, Revue de Musicologie, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, among others. She has co-edited two special issues—one for Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (Digital Musicology, in progress) and another for the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (Connecting the Dots: New Research Paradigms for Iberian Manuscripts as Material Objects). She has also co-edited the Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference, Tufts University 26-29 May 2020, the Digital Libraries for Musicology 2025 Proceedings, as well as two volumes entitled The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the West (2023) and The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East (2025). She is Executive Secretary of the Centre for Music Studies (CESEM) at NOVA University Lisbon, coordinates the Portuguese Early Music Database, co-directs the book series Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi (Brepols), and serves as Treasurer of the Portuguese Society for Research in Music (SPIM). In 2023 she has joined the CESEM-FCSH editorial committee and served as review editor for the Portuguese Journal of Musicology new series between 2023 and 2025. Over the years, Elsa has collaborated in ten 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
Education/Academic qualification
Musicology, Doctorate, Dissertation: ‘I manoscritti musicali dell’Archivio di San Nicola a Bari: elementi francesi nella musica e nella liturgia’. Supervisor: Marco Gozzi.
1 Sept 2007 → 31 Jan 2011
Award Date: 31 Jan 2011
Piano Performance, Piano Diploma, Istituto Musicale Pareggiato ai Conservatori di Stato, Ceglie Messapica (BR), Italy
Nov 1993 → Sept 2002
Award Date: 11 Sept 2002
External positions
Post-Doc Researcher, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM)
1 Oct 2016 → 31 Jan 2019
Postdoctoral Research Assistant , University of Bristol
1 May 2013 → 31 Aug 2016
FCT Post-Doc Researcher
1 May 2011 → 30 Apr 2013
Keywords
- M Music
- Early Music
- Plainchant
- Performance Practice
- Digital Humanities
- Music Encoding
- Musical Notation
- Musical analysis
- BR Christianity
- Medieval Liturgy
- Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography
- Music Palaeography
- Codicology
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Salzinnes and Digital Tools
Bain, J., De Luca, E., Gates-Panneton, G. & Hillerbrand, D., 2025, In: Journal of the Alamire Foundation. 17, 2, p. 242-266 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Materiality of Sound in Chant Manuscripts in the East
De Luca, E. (Editor/Coordinator), Moody, I. (Editor/Coordinator) & Goudesenne, J.-F. (Editor/Coordinator), 2025, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 280 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A Preliminary Proposal for a Systematic GABC Encoding of Gregorian Chant
E. Thomae, M., Rizo, D., Fuentes-Martínez, E., Alís Raurich, C., De Luca, E. & Calvo-Zaragoza, J., 27 Jun 2024, Proceedings of DLfM 2024 - 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Weigl, D. M. (ed.). ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, p. 45-53 9 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Brainstorming on the Encoding of Eastern Music Scripts, Middle-Byzantine Neumes as a Case-Study
De Luca, E., Fujinaga, I. & Alexandru, M., 2024, In: Series Musicologica Balcanica. 5, p. 177-205 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Brainstorming on the Encoding of Eastern Neumes: Middle-Byzantine Notation as a Case-Study
De Luca, E., Fujinaga, I. & Alexandru, M., 2024, p. 61-63. 3 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Cantus Index
Luca, E. D. (Creator), creative commons licence, 2012
http://cantusindex.org/ and one more link, http://cantusindex.org/acknowledgements (show fewer)
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Digital Libraries for Musicology 2025
De Luca, E. (Chair)
26 Sept 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (External organisation)
De Luca, E. (Chair)
Apr 2025 → Mar 2028Activity: Membership › Membership of network/project
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ENIM 2025 - XIV Encontro de Investigação em Música
De Luca, E. (Member of programme committee)
Jul 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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CEM. Cultura, Espaço & Memória (Journal)
De Luca, E. (Peer reviewer)
10 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Research Group co-coordinator
De Luca, E. (Chair)
Jul 2025Activity: Other › Types of Award - Appointment