Dr Elaine Moohan
e.moohan@open.ac.uk

Elaine was born in Glasgow and educated at Bellarmine Secondary School, renowned for its inspirational music staff. In 1983 she matriculated at the University of Glasgow studying concurrently for the interdisciplinary MA degree and the specialist music degree of BMus. It was while there that Elaine developed her interest in late Mediaeval and early Renaissance music, an interest that led her to study with David Fallows at the University of Manchester. After successfully completing the MusM, she gained a University Scholarship that allowed her to continue to PhD. Her specialist field is late-fifteenth-century sacred music and its manuscript sources.

Elaine joined The Open University's full-time staff in March 2002 as Arts Staff Tutor in the Newcastle Regional Centre. Prior to this, she was an occasional lecturer in the Music Department of the University of Glasgow, designing and teaching courses relating to Mediaeval and Renaissance music. She also taught with the OU for several years as a Tutor Counsellor and Associate Lecturer for A103 and AA302 (and before that for A314), and worked in the Edinburgh Regional Centre as Arts Faculty Co-ordinator. It was during this period that she took advantage of the OU's staff development scheme to study in the Education Faculty, gaining the Advanced Diploma in Adult and Continuing Education and the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education.

Course responsibilities include contributions to the teaching materials in AA100: The Arts Past and Present, A179: Start Listening to Music, and AA317: Words and Music which contains a new edition of Regis’s Missa L’homme armé. Elaine is also an active member of the A103 Course Team and the MA in Music course team for which she is Chair of the dissertation module, A877.

On the practical side, Elaine is a viola player and conductor of Glasgow's archdiocesan choir, the St Mungo Singers. She also leads workshops in modern liturgical music throughout Scotland.

Publications

Johannes Martini, Johannes Martini Complete Masses (Recent Researches in Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance), ed. E Moohan and M Steib, A-R Editions, Madison

'Caroline Wichern', in The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

‘The Sacred Music Institution in Glasgow, 1796-1805’ in Notis musycall: Essays on Music and Scottish Culture in Honour of Kenneth Elliott, ed. Gordon Munro … Elaine Moohan (Musica Scotica Trust: Glasgow)

Current research interests

Johannes Martini, the shorter sacred works
Music at Glasgow Cathedral in the pre-Reformation era
F ragments of liturgical manuscripts associated with the pre-Reformation library of Glasgow Cathedral
Music in eighteenth-century Glasgow
John Fergus, Glasgow composer, organist, and performer
Music publishing in eighteenth-century Glasgow