The music of Francisco Guerrero has been an important part of my musicological research. I worked on three of his motets that served as models for the same number of parody masses by Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo. I also sung …
Many times, I’m asked to give some advice on something related to my work, which I gladly do without thinking twice about it. That must be common to all historians and researchers and, in my case, I’m very happy to …
Last June 28 opened at the National Palace of Ajuda in Lisbon the exhibition Na Rota das Catedrais: Construções [d]e Identidades (On the Route of the Cathedrals: Constructions of/and Identity), which includes a large number of art works from all …
This is a small video that, in a very clear and resumed way, shows how music books were printed in the sixteenth century and afterwards. It features the process using movable pieces of type, very similar to that of traditional …
I have recently published in my Humanities Commons profile page a edition I made of Portuguese composer Pedro de Cristo’s (c.1550-1618) villancico Ai mi Dios for Christmas. Pedro de Cristo was an Augustine friar in the monasteries of Santa Cruz of Coimbra …