Elaine is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (MA, BMus) and the University of Manchester (MusM, PhD). At Glasgow University she studied concurrently for the multidisciplinary MA degree and the specialist music degree of BMus. While there she 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. Her specialist field is late-fifteenth-century sacred music and its manuscript sources. Recently, she has extended her research interests to include music in her home city of Glasgow from the foundation of the medieval cathedral to the end of the eighteenth century.
Elaine joined The Open University's full-time staff in March 2002 as Arts Staff Tutor and currently works from the office of The Open University in Scotland, based in Edinburgh. She brings experience of teaching at a campus university - occasional lecturer in medieval and renaissance topics at the Music Department of the University of Glasgow – and of distance education - Tutor Counsellor and Associate Lecturer at The OU.
Her course responsibilities at The OU 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 an active member of the AA100 Module Team and the MA in Music programme team where she is Chair of the dissertation module, A877.
Elaine welcomes expressions of interest from potential research students in the areas of late-medieval and Renaissance music; production of music manuscripts; liturgical music; and, music in Glasgow during the long eighteenth century.
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)
See also Open Research Online for further details of Elaine Moohan’s research publications.
Johannes Martini, the shorter sacred works
Music at Glasgow Cathedral in the pre-Reformation era
Fragments 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
