Gregorian Chant Scholar

  • Her scientific interests include the liturgical and devotional culture of the Middle Ages with a special focus on prayer practices of the late medieval nunneries. The area of her particular interest concerns liturgical manuscripts and their fragments from medieval Livonia and the Baltic region.

  • —. «Psalterium Davidis of the Cistercian Nunnery of Riga (LMAVB RS F 22–96) and its Liturgical Calendar.» Analecta Cisterciensia 2021. 119–169.

    —. «Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts The Liturgical and Musical Testimonies from the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga.» The Baltic Battle of Books Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (c. 1500–c. 1650) and Their Afterlife. A cura di J. Nordin, P. Sjökvist e G. Strenga. Brill, 2023. 13–36.

    —. «Book of Hours From the Cistercian Nunnery in Riga – Prayer Books for Monastic Use.» Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne, 2023. 71–89.

    —. «The Unique Collection of Monophonic Benedicamus Domino Melodies and Tropes from Medieval Riga.» Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c. 800-1650. A cura di Catherine A. Bradley. Brepols, 2024. 249–266.

  • Books, Music, and the Liturgical Life of the Medieval Church (BMLL)
    Helsinki, Finland, 13–14 November 2025
    Paper: Prayer Books of Nuns: Features and Content of a Distinct Type of Liturgical Book from a Late Medieval Women’s Monastery

    International Conference of the European Research Council Project BENEDICAMUS
    Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, 7 September 2023
    Paper: The Unique Selection of Benedicamus Domino Melodies from Medieval Riga

    50th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference (MedRen)
    Uppsala, 7 July 2022
    Paper: Four Benedicamus Domino Tropes in the Book of Hours from the Cistercian Nunnery of Riga

    International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Prayer Books in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries – Contexts, Reading, Analyses, Interpretations
    Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 23–24 May 2022
    Paper: Book of Hours from the Cistercian Nunnery of Riga: Liturgical and Musical Observations on Prayer Books for Monastic Use

    49th Medieval and Renaissance International Music Conference (MedRen)
    Lisbon, 6–9 July 2021
    Paper: Recent Musical Discoveries from Medieval Riga: Music in the Manuscripts of the “Singing Virgins” of the Cistercian Nunnery

    Musicological Study Group Cantus Planus (Research Forum)
    July 2021
    Paper: Manuscripts from the Cistercian Nunnery of Riga and Their Musical Notation

    Leeds International Medieval Congress
    Leeds, 5 July 2021
    Paper: The Chants Against a Tempest: Chants as Part of Prayers for Protection in Storms in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts

    IX International Scientific Symposium Thesaurus Musicae Sacrae
    Warsaw, 18 December 2020
    Paper: Musical Testimonies in Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts from the Cistercian Nunnery of St. Mary Magdalene in Riga

    First Meeting of Early Musicologists in the Nordic Countries
    Teleborg Castle, Linnaeus University (Växjö), 15–17 October 2019
    Paper: The Six Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts from the Library of Uppsala University (Sweden)

  • Editorial and Scientific Board Member
    Pressus Maior – International Journal of Medieval Music

Laine Tabora is actively engaged in research on medieval music. She is the author of several scholarly publications and regularly presents her work at international academic conferences. In December 2024, she defended her doctoral dissertation on fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Cistercian nunnery of St. Mary Magdalene in Riga at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, where she was awarded the highest distinction (summa cum laude).

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