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Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales
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Predoctoral Researcher in Training (PhD Candidate) - Spanish Early Music Manuscripts III (SEMM III) Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales in Spain
Degree Level
PhD
Field of study
Computer Science
Funding
Available
Deadline
Nov 29, 2026
Country
Spain
University
Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales
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About this position
The Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) is offering a predoctoral position integrated into Spanish Early Music Manuscripts III (SEMM III), a project devoted to the preservation, cataloguing, and scholarly study of medieval Spanish liturgical music. The successful candidate will develop a doctoral dissertation within the project, contributing directly to the SEMM digital infrastructure and its connection with the international Cantus Index network.
The research will focus on Iberian medieval chant sources and their historical manuscript traditions. The project combines codicological description, neumatic and paleographical analysis, melodic indexing, and the development of standardized chant taxonomy for materials such as antiphoners, breviaries, graduals, and other liturgical compilations. A major part of the work is situated at the intersection of music history and digital humanities, where manuscript scholarship is linked to encoding and computational analysis.
The SEMM III environment is explicitly interdisciplinary and collaborative. It brings together specialists from ICCMU and partner academic institutions, and it is grounded in an open-access database initiative founded in 2015. The selected researcher will work with medieval musical notation traditions including Hispanic/Visigothic, Silense, Aquitanian, Catalan, and square notation, and will contribute to the curation and quality control of metadata in the SEMM platform.
Day-to-day activities include archival examination of manuscripts from ecclesiastical and public archives, transcription and palaeographical work, critical use of scholarly literature in several European languages, and reading of liturgical medieval Latin texts. The position also involves digital tools for indexing, musical edition, MEI and Volpiano encoding, HTR models, and comparative chant analysis, alongside participation in seminars, outreach, and project coordination support.
The scientific direction of the project is led by Carmen Julia Gutiérrez González and Santiago Ruiz Torres at the ICCMU in Madrid.
Funding details
Available
What's required
Applicants must hold a university degree that provides legal access to an official doctoral programme in Spain and be legally eligible to enroll in an accredited doctoral programme at the time of contract execution. A master’s degree or equivalent is required in the listed fields of Arts/Performing Arts, History/Music History, or Cultural Studies/European Studies. Preference will be given to candidates with backgrounds in Musicology, Medieval History, Philology, Digital Humanities, or related disciplines, especially with training in musicology and historical manuscript sources. Candidates who already hold a PhD are ineligible. Prior employment under the Spanish predoctoral contract scheme cannot exceed 48 months in total across all institutions. Spanish proficiency must be excellent and English proficiency good.
How to apply
Send a standardized CV (CVA FECYT recommended), full official academic transcripts for bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and a motivation letter by email to [email protected]. Shortlisted candidates may be invited to an interview. Apply before 23:59 CET on 2026-11-29.
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