Dr Estelle Murphy
Lecturer / Assistant Professor
Biography
Estelle Murphy is a musicologist with two areas of specialism: English and Irish music of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and contemporary popular music (specifically heavy metal).
Estelle completed her undergraduate degree at University College Cork, where she developed a love of Baroque music. Following this, she undertook a PhD at UCC. Her PhD thesis, 'The Fashioning of a Nation: The Court Ode in the Late Stuart Period' was supervised by Dr Paul Everett and focused on music and politics at the London court during the reigns of the late Stuart monarchs. Having been awarded her PhD in 2012, Estelle continued to lecture at UCC, where she had held various adjunct positions during her time as a postgraduate. In 2014 she was appointed lecturer in music at Maynooth University.
Estelle completed her undergraduate degree at University College Cork, where she developed a love of Baroque music. Following this, she undertook a PhD at UCC. Her PhD thesis, 'The Fashioning of a Nation: The Court Ode in the Late Stuart Period' was supervised by Dr Paul Everett and focused on music and politics at the London court during the reigns of the late Stuart monarchs. Having been awarded her PhD in 2012, Estelle continued to lecture at UCC, where she had held various adjunct positions during her time as a postgraduate. In 2014 she was appointed lecturer in music at Maynooth University.
Research Interests
Late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century music in Britain and Ireland; source studies, manuscripts and manuscript culture; the development of the music book as a material item; gender studies and women in music; contemporary popular music; Heavy Metal music.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Estelle Murphy (2025) 'To Speak its Share of Public Joy': The Musical Ode from 1660 to 1779. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. | |
| 2021 | Estelle Murphy (2021) John Eccles, Incidental Music Part 2, Plays H-P, The Works of John Eccles. Wisconsin: A-R Editions, Inc. [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Estelle Murpy (2021) 'Ceremonial Song in Eighteenth-Century Dublin: Cousser’s and Dubourg’s Odes and Serenatas' In: The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song, 1100-1850. New York : Oxford University Press. [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Estelle Murphy (2014) ''Sing Great Anna's Matchless Name': Images of Queen Anne in the Court Ode' In: Queen Anne and the Arts. Maryland : Buckle University Press. [Full-Text] | |
| 2013 | Estelle Murphy (2013) 'Articles: Arrigoni, Carlo ('Signor') and Arigoni, Ferdinando; Catch and Glee Clubs; Crow Street Music Hall; O'Connor, Dermot; Pinto, Thomas; Scarlatti, Francesco; Smock Alley Theatre' In: Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland. Dublin : UCD Press. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Estelle Murphy (2023) 'Dubourg, Geminiani, and the Violin Concerto in D Major: A Misattribution'. Eighteenth-Century Music, 20 (2). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570623000131 | |
| 2017 | Estelle Murphy (2017) '‘Liveridge is in Ireland’: Richard Leveridge and the Earliest Surviving Dublin Birthday Odes'. MUSIC AND LETTERS, 98 (1):32-73. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcx012 [Full-Text] | |
| 2016 | Murphy E. (2016) ''INSPIRE US GENIUS of the DAY': REWRITING the REGENT in the BIRTHDAY ODE for QUEEN ANNE, 1703'. Eighteenth-Century Music, 13 (1):51-72. [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Estelle Murphy (2014) 'REVIEW: JOHANN CHRISTOPH PEPUSCH CONCERTOS AND OVERTURES FOR LONDON The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen / Robert Rawson Ramée RAM 1109, 2012; one disc, 59 minutes'. Eighteenth-Century Music, 11 (2):312-314. [Full-Text] | |
| 2008 | Co-authored with Helen Gubbins, Sarah O'Halloran, Daithí Kearney, Anna M. Dore, Emily Magner, Estelle Murphy (2008) 'A Forum for the Practice of Musicology in Ireland'. British Postgraduate Musicology, 9 . [Full-Text] |
Online Database
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Estelle Murphy (2023) Musical Court Odes, 1660-1779. [Online Database] [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Estelle Murphy (2023) 'Matthew Dubourg’s Violin Concerto: A Case of Mistaken Identity' Handel Institute Newsletter, 34 (1) . [Link] |
Article
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Estelle Murphy (2018) Meet death metal's new female growlers. Ireland: [Article] [Link] |
Conference Contribution
Invited Seminars
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