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Department of Geography, History and History of Art


ROS-FÁBREGAS, Emilio

Lecturer at the University of Granada, Seconded to the University of Girona
Head of the Musical Patronage in Andalusia and its Influence in America (HUM 579) Research Group (Regional Autonomous Government of Andalusia)
Research lines: Musical manuscripts and libraries in the 16th century; Historiography of Spanish music

Born in Barcelona, he obtained a Bachelor of Music Degree (B.M., 1981) and a Master’s Degree in Music (M.M., 1983) in piano (with Professor Luiz de Moura Castro) from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, and a Doctorate (PhD) in Musicology from the Graduate School, The City University of New York, CUNY (1992), in the USA, where he lived for twenty years. His Doctoral Thesis (supervised by Allan W. Atlas) on a musical manuscript from the Renaissance received the Barry S. Brook Award 1992. He has been Lecturer in the History of Music at Brooklyn College (The City University of New York, 1986-1992) and Boston University (1993-1998), where he directed the Collegium Musicum. He has worked on international projects on bibliography (RILM Abstracts), musical iconography (RIdIM/RCMI), French opera (Pendragon Press) and Latin American music, promoted by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation of the City University of New York, where he became Associate Director (1992-1993). His research lines have primarily focused on musical manuscripts and libraries in the 16th century and the historiography of Spanish music; he has published in Revista de Musicología, Early Music, Early Music History, The New Grove Dictionary and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, amongst others. In 2001 he obtained the BBVA Visiting Fellowship of the University of Cambridge as a visiting researcher at the British university; in 2003 he received the University of Granada Award for Research Works of Excellence. Emilio Ros-Fábregas is Head of the Musical Patronage in Andalusia and its Influence in America (HUM 579) Research Group of the University of Granada, subsidised by the Regional Autonomous Government of Andalusia, and has taken part in R&D projects of the Ministry of Education and Culture (1998-2001) and of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2003-2006).
Publications
  • Ros-Fábregas, E., Ford, T., et al. (eds.) (1988). Inventory of Music Iconography, no. 3: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography (RIdIM/RCMI)      
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (1992). The Manuscript Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, M.454: Study and Edition in the Context of the Iberian and Continental Manuscript Traditions2 vols., Tesi Doctoral, Ph. D., The Graduate School, The City University of New York. Accessible at: http://www.umi.com
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (1995). "Music and Ceremony during Charles V's 1519 visit to Barcelona", Early Music, XXIII/3, pp. 374-391
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (1997). "La Biblioteca Musical de Federico Olmeda (1865-1909) en la 'Hispanic Society of America' de Nueva York", Revista de Musicología, XX/1, pp. 553-570
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (2002). "The Cardona and Fernández de Córdoba Coats of Arms in the Chigi Codex", Early Music History, 21, pp. 223-258
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (2007). "Script and Print: The Transmission of Non-Iberian Polyphony in Renaissance Barcelona", Music, Print and Culture in the Iberian Peninsula during the Renaissance. Kassel: Reichenberger, pp. 299-328
  • Ros-Fábregas, E. (2007). "Cristóbal de Morales: A Problem of Musical Mysticism and National Identity in the Historiography of the Renaissance", Cristóbal de Morales 'The Light of Spain in Music': Sources, Influences, Reception. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, pp. 215-233
  • Ros-Fábregas, E., and Gembero, M. (eds.) (2007). La música y el Atlántico. Relaciones musicales entre España y Latinoamérica. Granada: Universidad de Granada
Contact details
E-mail: emili.ros@udg.edu
Office: 4th floor
Tel: 972 41 87 99

Courses taught
History of Music
Music and Theatre: Stage Music from Mozart to Stravinsky