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.
Tag: Soundscapes
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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Text on the Chapel of Évora Cathedral
The last decade of the seventeenth century and the first half of the next century saw two major construction works in Évora Cathedral. The first of these constructions was the new building to house the College of the Cathedral’s choirboys …
Text on Évora Discalced Carmelite Soundscape
I published a text last July a text in the Portuguese journal Herança – Revista de Cultura e Património (volume 1, issue 1) about the Discalced Carmelite convent of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios in Évora.