Text on Music, Earthquakes and Famine
This year begun with the publication of a new article on the seventeenth century soundscape of Angra do Heroísmo, a beautiful city in Terceira Island, Azores.
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Text on Vicente Lusitano’s Heu me Domine
I have recently publish a brief text on Vicente Lusitano’s chromatic motet Heu me Domine in the online edition of the Portuguesese music magazine Glosas, edited by Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.
Introduction to the Historical Soundscape of Flores Island
I have been interested in studying the presence of music in my home village’s church for years. Since my specialty is the study of plainchant and polyphony in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and now it is gradually focusing in …
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Edition of two Psalm Settings by Francisco Martins
There is now available the edition I prepared for the Polyphonia series of Edições MPMP comprising two psalm settings by Portuguese composer Francisco Martins (c.1617-1680).
Motets for Advent performed by Grupo Vocal Olisipo
An edition of three motets for Advent by Francisco José Perdigão, a late-eighteenth-century chapel master of Évora Cathedral, that I prepared for the Sacra XVIII series of the Editions MPMP (it will be published in early-2019 and will be available …
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Edition of Morago’s Christmas Responsories
One of the first editions I prepared for the Polyphonia series of the Editions MPMP in late 2012 was the collection of responsories for Christmas matins by composer Estêvão Lopes Morago which make the number 6 of this series.
Paper at CESEM/UÉvora Conferences
Next October 31st (Sala dos Espelhos, Colégio Mateus d’Aranda, 14h00) I will give a brief presentation on one of the works by Diogo Dias Melgaz, the four-voice a capella motet Memento homo, for Ash Wednesday.
Portuguese Religious Heritage Day
Last October 18th, with activities until the 22nd, was the National Day for the cultural heritage of the church (in Portuguese, Dia Nacional dos Bens Culturais da Igreja), a series of events promoted by the dioceses, parishes, and museums to …
Edition of Works by Matheo d’Aranda
In 2014 I prepared an edition of Matheo d’Aranda’s surviving polyphonic works for the number 11 of the Polyphonia series of musical editions published by the Edições MPMP of Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.
Review for Glosas Online
The second review I wrote for the online edition of the Portuguese classical music magazine Glosas, of the second concert of XXI International Workshop Évora Cathedral Music School, last October 6th in Évora Cathedral.