Francisco Molina-Moreno, Ph.D.
Division of Humanities
Classical Languages
Education
Ph.D. in Classical Philology (Complutense University of Madrid).
Master's Degree in Slavic Philology (Complutense University of Madrid).
Research Interests
- Comparative mythology, with focus on myths about music and about fabulous countries.
- Philosophy of music, with focus on the ancient doctrine of the harmony of the spheres.
- Interdisciplinary harmonics, golden section.
Publications and Media Placements
Scriabin, por el misterio hacia el 茅xtasis (= Skrjabin, Through Mystery Towards Ecstasy), Madrid, Mit谩foras Editorial, 2021 (ISBN 978-84-09-27069-9), en (September 4th 2021).
'Las Hesp茅rides y la m煤sica c贸smica' ("Hesperides and Cosmic Music"), in Piquero, Juan; De Paz, Pablo, & Planchas, Soraya (eds.), 2019: Nunc est bacchandum. Homenaje a Alberto Bernab茅, Madrid, Escolar y Mayo, pp. 257-63.
'Pi霉 ind霉 degli ind霉? Skrjabin, le cosmogonie orfiche e la mitologia vedica' (= 'More Hindu than the Hindus? Skrjabin, Orphic Cosmogonies and Vedic Mythology?', in Curinga, Luisa, & Rapetti, Marco (eds.), 2018: Skrjabin e il Suono-Luce, Firenze, Firenze University Press, pp. 75-89.
"Skrjabin's Magical Music: Just a Fantasy?", in Amaltea. Revista de mitocr铆tica, 10, 2018, pp. 35-53 (.
'Tolstoi y la filosof铆a de la m煤sica' ('Tolstoy and the Philosophy of Music'), in Mali谩vina, Svetlana, & Presa Gonz谩lez, Fernando (eds.), 2018: Lev Nikol谩yeivch Tolstoi un siglo despu茅s. Madrid, Atenea, pp. 63-78.
'La vida amorosa de las rusalki' ('The Love Life of the Rusalki'), in Liburna, 10 (May 2017), pp. 101-42, in (August 1st 2017), and in (August 25th 2017).
'Aleksandr Skrjabin, The Russian Orpheus,' in Gonz谩lez-Rivas Fern谩ndez, Ana, and Lipscomb, Antonella (guest editors), 2017: The Eternal Return. Myth Updating in Contemporary Literature (= Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 40:2), pp. 81-101 ().
'小懈褉械薪褘, 屑褍蟹褘, 袩谢械褟写褘, 邪薪谐械谢褘', in 袩邪谢邪薪褌懈褉, 8 (2016), 褋褌褉. 185-94.
'呕e艅skie duchy przyrodnicze w folklorze polskim i w mitologii klasycznej' (= 'Female Spirits of Nature in Polish Folklore and in Classical Mythology'), in Prace etnograficzne, 44, 4, 2016, pp. 345-78 (, doi: 10.4467/22999558.PE.16.017.6642, .
'袚芯谐芯谢械胁褋泻邪褟 褉褍褋邪谢泻邪: 胁芯褋锌芯屑懈薪邪薪懈褟 芯 屑邪泄褋泻芯泄 薪芯褔懈 胁 袩芯谢械褋褜械' ('Gogol's Rusalka: memories of a May night in Polesie'), in 袩邪谢邪薪褌懈褉, 7 (2015), pp. 73-83.
芦袪褍褋邪谢泻懈 胁 袩芯谢械褋褜械 懈 褋懈褉械薪褘 胁 袗薪褌懈褔薪芯褋褌懈禄 (= 芦Polesian Rusalki and Ancient Sirens禄), in Palaeoslavica, XXIII, 2 (2015), pp. 197-220 (, November 23rd 2015), reprinted in 袩邪谢邪薪褌懈褉, 8 (2016), 褋褌褉. 167-84.
"Dos poetas-m煤sicos espa帽oles rinden homenaje a un m煤sico-poeta ruso" (= "Two Spanish Musician-Poets Honour a Russian Poet-Musician"), in Scherzo, 304, 2015, pp. 89-91 ().
"Para el 茅xtasis y el misterio: dos poemas (no musicales) de Alexander Scriabin" (= "For Ecstasy and Mystery: Two (Non-Musical) Poems by Alexander Scriabin"), in Scherzo, 304, 2015, pp. 76-85 (.
'Las Rusalki eslavas orientales: 驴ninfas, sirenas o fantasmas?' ('Eastern Slavic Rusalki: Nymphs, Sirens, or Ghosts?'), in Aguirre Castro, M.; Delgado Linacero, C., & Gonz谩lez-Rivas, A. (coord.), 2014: Fantasmas, aparecidos y muertos sin descanso. Madrid, Abada Editores, pp. 217-31.
'Las rusalki: 驴ninfas eslavas de las aguas?' (= 'Are the Rusalki the Slavic Water Nymphs?'), in Amaltea. Revista de mitocr铆tica 6, 2014, pp. 219-46 (, October 1st 2014).
芦Migrating Fabulous Half-Birds? Sirens and Sirin禄, in Palaeoslavica, XXII, 1 (2014), pp. 233-46 (, October 24th 2014).
'袣褉褘谢邪褌褘械 屑懈褎懈褔械褋泻懈械 锌械胁褑褘 泻芯褋屑懈褔械褋泻芯泄 屑褍蟹褘泻懈' ('Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music'), in 效褍写懈薪芯胁邪, 袠.袗., 懈 孝懈屑芯褕械薪泻芯, 袗.袗. (褉械写.鈥撗佇狙佈�.), 2013: 袚芯谢芯褋 胁 泻褍谢褜褌褍褉械. 袦褍蟹褘泻邪 锌褉懈褉芯写褘: 蟹胁褍泻芯锌芯写褉邪卸邪薪懈械 胁 芯斜褉褟写械 懈 懈褋泻褍褋褋褌胁械. 小斜芯褉薪懈泻 褋褌邪褌械泄. 袙褘锌.4. 小袩斜., 袠蟹写邪褌械谢褜褋褌胁芯 '袗褋褌械褉懈芯薪', 褋褌褉. 111-131.
De sirenibus sphaerarum harmoniam concinentibus, in (September 10th 2013).
'Homenaje a la Sirena de Varsovia' ('To Honor the Siren of Warsaw'), in Losada, J. M., & Lipscomb, A. (coord.), 2013: Mito e interdisciplinariedad. Los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la literatura y las artes contempor谩neas, Bari, Levante Editori, pp. 73-83 (, November 28th 2014).
'Mikhail Aleksandrovich Marutayev: Symmetry and Cosmic Harmony鈥� // Symmetry: Art and Science, 2013, 1-4, pp. 244-247.
Winged Mythical Singers of Cosmic Music, in (December 20th 2013).
'De c贸mo las Rusalki sobrevivieron al gulag' ('How Rusalki Survived the Gulag'), lecture, delivered on March 14th 2012 at the work session of the research group 'ACIS. Mitocr铆tica contempor谩nea' ('ACIS. Current Mythocritics'), held on that date at the Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University of Madrid. (October 15th 2012).
'De Hyperboreis renascentibus' (鈥歄n the Renaissance of the Hyperboreans') in Vox Latina, 48 (fasc. 189), 2012, pp. 310-6 ().
'Non-musical notes on the Orphic Lyra (OF 417)', in Herrero de J谩uregui, M.; Jim茅nez San Crist贸bal, A. I.; Luj谩n Mart铆nez, E. R.; Mart铆n Hern谩ndez, R.; Santamar铆a 脕lvarez, M. A., & Torallas Tovar, S. (eds.), 2011: Tracing Orpheus. Studies of Orphic Fragments, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter, pp. 147-151 ().
'La 'Rusalka' de G贸gol. Recuerdos de una noche de mayo en el Polesie' ('Gogol's Rusalka. Recollections of a May night in Polesie'), in Maliavina, S. & Presa Gonz谩lez, F. (ed.), 2010: Nikol谩i Vas铆lievich G贸gol. 200 a帽os despu茅s, Madrid, ATENEA, 2010, ISBN 978-84-613-5850-2, pp. 65-92 ().
'El orfismo y la m煤sica' ('Orphism and Music'), in Bernab茅, A., and Casades煤s, F. (coords.), 2008: Orfeo y la tradici贸n 贸rfica. Un reencuentro, Madrid, Akal, I, pp. 817-840.
'La m煤sica de Orfeo' ('Orpheus鈥� Music'), in Bernab茅, A., and Casades煤s, F. (coords.), 2008: Orfeo y la tradici贸n 贸rfica. Un reencuentro, Madrid, Akal, I, pp. 33-58.
'The Pleiads, or the First Cosmic Lyre', in Hyperboreus, 14, 1 (2008), pp. 28-38 ().
'Scriabin and Plato鈥檚 Musical Mysticism,' in Journal of the Scriabin Society of America, 10, 1 (2005), pp. 21-36 ().
'Scriabin y el misticismo musical de Plat贸n' ('Skryabin and Plato's Musical Mysticism'), in Eslav铆stica Complutense, 4 (2004), pp. 219-232 (, December 4th 2014).
'Vom H枚ren der Sph盲renharmonie in Werner Schulze 鈥濻okrates' ('On Listening the Harmony of the Spheres in Werner Schulze's Sokrates'), in Schulze, W. (coord.), 2003: 危惟螝巍螒韦螚危, Wien, LOGOS Edition 09, pp. 25-7 ().
'Musicienne du silence: introducci贸n a un estudio sobre Urania, la Musa de la Astronom铆a' ('Musicienne du silence: Introduction to a Study about Urania, the Muse of Astronomy'), in Pel谩ez, J. (ed.), 2002: El dios que hechiza y encanta. Magia y astrolog铆a en el mundo cl谩sico y helen铆stico. Actas del I Congreso Nacional (C贸rdoba, 1998), C贸rdoba, Ediciones El Almendro, pp. 285-294.
'Bilder des heiligen Nordens in Antike, Patristik und Mittelalter' ('Images of the Sacred North in Antiquity, Patristic and Middle Ages'), lecture, held on May 15th 2000, on invitation by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Teuber, in the "Graduiertenkolleg" (advanced school) Imaginatio Borealis, University of Kiel. Now in Engel-Braunschmidt, A.; Fouquet, G.; Hinden, W. von, and Schmidt, I. (eds.), 2001: Ultima Thule. Bilder des Nordens von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, pp. 47-65 (.
'De polo mystico' ('On the Mystical Pole'), in Melissa, 101 (2001), pp. 6-14 ().
'La m煤sica de Orfeo a trav茅s de sus im谩genes' ('The Music of Orpheus through his Images'), in Revista de arqueolog铆a, 245 (2001), pp. 26-33.
'Renaissance-Variationen 眉ber ein Thema von Pythagoras' ('Renaissance Variations on a Theme by Pythagoras'), in Mitteilungen der Freunde um Hans Kayser, 47 (2001), pp. 9-16.
'De septentrionis geographia fabulosa in fontibus antiquae et mediae latinitatis' ('On the Legendary Geography of North in Ancient and Medieval Latin Sources'), in Romanobarbarica, 15 (1998), pp. 127-142.
'Dos poetas m煤sicos: Sadko y Orfeo (Proleg贸menos a un estudio comparativo)' ('Two Musicians-Poets: Sadko and Orpheus (Prolegomena to a Comparative Study)'), in Torquemada S谩nchez, J. (ed.), 1998: II Jornadas Andaluzas de Eslav铆stica. Ponencias y comunicaciones (Baeza, 1996), Granada, Proyecto Sur de Ediciones S. L., pp. 264-273.
'Hacia el para铆so hiperb贸reo' (= 'Towards the Hyperborean Paradise'), in Gil, L.; Mart铆nez Pastor, M., y Aguilar, R. M陋 (eds.), 1998: Corolla Complutensis in memoriam Josephi S. Lasso de la Vega contexta. Homenaje al Profesor Jos茅 S. Lasso de la Vega, Madrid, Editorial Complutense, pp. 505-515.
'In Septentrionem, in Paradisum? La recuperaci贸n de un mito, en la Edad Media latina' ('In Septentrionem, in Paradisum? Recovering a Myth, in Latin Middle Ages鈥�), in P茅rez Gonz谩lez, M. (ed.), 1998: Actas del II Congreso Hisp谩nico de Lat铆n Medieval (Le贸n, 11鈥�14 de noviembre de 1997), Le贸n, Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad, vol. II, pp. 679鈥�686 ().
'Quinteto para dioses m煤sicos en la mitolog铆a griega' ('A Quintet for Musician Gods in Greek Mythology'), in Estudios Cl谩sicos, vol. XL, Nr. 113 (1998), pp. 7鈥�35.