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Profile of Leila Salisbury

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Name:

Leila Mair Salisbury

Position:

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Email:

Location:

School of Music

Phone:

+44 (0) 1248 382181

Background

 

Leila was born in Cardiff and raised in Llangynog, near Carmarthen. She attended Ysgol Gyfun Bro Myrddin before gaining a first-class degree in Welsh and Music at Bangor University. After graduating in 2006, she followed an MPhil course entitled ‘Canu’r Dewin o Drefflemin: Golwg ar Alawon Gwerin Iolo Morganwg’ (The Songs of the Magician from Trefflemin: a look at the Folk Melodies of Iolo Morganwg) which includes a study of the wider context of the period, a redaction and explanatory notes to match the melodies. She is now working on a doctorate, in partnership with the music publishing company ‘Curiad’.

 

Teaching

Seminars in ‘Study Skills’ (20 credits) to Level 1 – autumn ’10

‘Hanes Cerddoriaeth Cymru: Gwragedd y 19G a’r 20G’ (History of Welsh Music: Women in the 19th and 20th centuries) (10 credits, Level 2 a 3)

‘History of Welsh Music in the 18th and 19th centuries’ (10 credits, Level 2 and 3)

Responsibilities

Working for the ‘Curiad’ company

Welsh-medium Postgraduate Ambassador for the Department (10/11)

Departmental Women’s tutor of the Department (09/10)

Research interests

Leila’s area of PhD research is the traditional music of Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, concentrating on the musical activity of Mair Richards Darowen (1787 – 1877).

The traditional music of Wales

Women’s involvement in Welsh music

Main publications

‘Golwg ar ganeuon serch Iolo Morganwg, gyda sylw arbennig I’r ‘Ferch o’r Scerr’’, Issue 5, Gwerddon (2010)

‘‘Hai haw Brithi i’r buarth’ – Golwg ar ganeuon gwaith Iolo Morganwg’, Canu Gwerin, Vol. 31 (2008), 55 – 82