I have published the text “A antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater: Prática musical mariana na Sé de Évora no final do século XVII e século XVIII” in the ebook Paisagens Sonoras Urbanas: História, Memória e Património, edited by Antónia Fialho Conde …
Next 30 November I will be giving a Historical Soundscape walking tour through some of Évora’s historical centre streets. This is the closing activity of the I International Research Meeting for Music and Musicology Students, which will take place at …
Tomorrow is the first day of the II Historical Soundscapes Meeting – Évora 2019, that will take place at the University of Évora from 16-18 October. It is an event organized by project PASEV (Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape, 1540-1910) in …
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The motet Salve Regina, for four voices, is probably Diogo Dias Melgaz’s best-known work. Melgaz was born in the Alentejo village of Cuba in 1638 and died in Évora in 1700 and is one of the Évora Cathedral composers whose …
This polyphony setting of the antiphon Asperges me comes from Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo’s first Liber Missarum of 1621. It was one of the books Lobo printed in Antwerp at the famous Officina Plantiniana by Balthazar Moretus.
In February 2013 I made several concerts with Ensemble da Sé de Angra in Terceira Island (Azores). One of these concerts was in the Church of Santa Cruz of Praia da Vitória, where we made the recording presented in this …
No Renaissance composer and few later ones have been as proficient as Palestrina at writing positive, outward-going, major-key music, and in this context Assumpta est Maria represents one of the most important works of the period.
Percursos da Música Portuguesa Abordagem panorâmica da música erudita portuguesa desde o século XII até à actualidade pela batuta do maestro Jorge Matta Uma abordagem panorâmica da música erudita portuguesa desde o século XII até à atualidade, conduzida pelo maestro …
In 2016 was the 450th anniversary of Portuguese composer frei Manuel Cardoso’s birth. He was baptized on December 11, 1566, in the Church of Fronteira, a small village near the Spanish border. He wrote several Lamentations settings for the Triduum …
In 12 October 2017 I participated in a Symposium that took place at the Convent of Christ, in Tomar, a former Templar house later transferred to the Portuguese Order of Christ, where I presented a paper on 17th-century Franciscan plainchant in …