Dr. Kalina Tomova

Kalina Tomova is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Regensburg, where she working on the project ‘FeelTheBeat: Disrupting Musical Time, c. 1300–1600’ (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101204345). Previously she was a research associate at the University of Cambridge working on the ERC-funded project ‘BENEDICAMUS: Musical and Poetic Creativity for a Unique Moment in the Western Christian Liturgy, c.1000-1500’, led by Catherine A. Bradley. Kalina defended her PhD thesis on the fifteenth-century carol repertoire at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• ‘Faburden and Fauxbourdon in the Fifteenth-Century Carol’, Early Music 52/4 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caaf013

• „Принципът на алтерация в английския керъл репертоар от XV век“ (‘Alteration in the Fifteenth-Century English Carol Repertoire’),Palaeobulgarica, 48/4 (2025), 31–42, https://doi.org/10.59076/2603-2899.2025.3.04

• „Английският отпечатък върху западноевропейската музика от XV век“ (‘The English Imprint on Western European Music in the Fifteenth Century’), Bulgarian Musicology 48/3 (2024), 105–122, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1265965

• ‘The Adaptability of the English Ayre: Secondary Polyphonization Techniques in Thomas Campion’s Two Books of Ayres’, Early Music 50/2 (2022), 169–80, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac0412

• „Въведение в мензуралната нотация чрез примери от английския керъл репертоар от XV век“ (‘Introduction into Mensural Notation Through Examples from the Fifteenth-Century Carol Repertory’), Bulgarian Musicology 46/3 (2022), 96–119, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1067164

• ‘Melody and Mathematics in Thomas Campion’s Compositional Style: Two Books of Ayres’, Academic Forum Integral Music Theory (2020), 20–31, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=857649

Book Chapters

• ‘Dots, Syncopation, and Similis ante similem in the Alma redemptoris mater from the Trinity Carol Roll’, in European Music Notations in Theory and Practice, 1400–1600, ed. Paul Kolb (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)