Dr. Rhianydd Hallas, Ph.D.

Education

• 2016–2021: PhD, School of Music, Bangor University (Wales) and Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague): 'Two rhymed offices composed for the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: comparative study and critical edition'
• 2014–2015: MA in Early Music, School of Music, Bangor University (Wales)
• 2011–2014: BA in Music, School of Music, Bangor University (Wales)

Research Interests

• Office for the feast of the Visitation, focusing on Adam Easton and Jan z Jenštejna
• Offices for female saints
• Liturgical Latin contrafact chants
• Liturgical chants for Jan Hus

Research projects since 2010

• Investigator: The Use and Reception of Contrafact in Late Medieval Liturgical Chant, GA ČR, 2022–2024
• Team member: Old Myths, New Fact: Czech Lands in the Centre of 15th-century Music Developments, GA ČR, EXPRO, 2019–2021

Membership in University Bodies, Research Institutions, Scholarly Societies, and Editorial Boards

• Member of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (since 2015)

Publications

(Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here)

• Rhianydd Hallas, 'Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the Visitation', in Loveridge, McAvoy, Niebrzydowski, and Price (eds.) Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages. Speaking Internationally (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2023), 175–192.
• Rhianydd Hallas and Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Introduction, in Journal of the Alamire Foundation 15, no. 1 (Spring, 2023), 9–10.
• Rhianydd Hallas and Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Introduction, in Journal of the Alamire Foundation 14, no. 2 (Autumn, 2022), 197–198.
• Rhianydd Hallas, 'Between Tradition and Heresy: Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Chants for Jan Hus' (chapter in a coming book)