When one speaks of water and music, in most cases, the first association is, naturally, the Wassermusik suites by Georg F. Handel. Indeed these works have established themselves as canonic in instrumental music repertoire of Western music. But there are many other …
Photo from the round-table “From Manuscript to Concert: The Monastico-Conventual Musical Heritage” that I chaired in the VI Cistercian Residency S. Bento de Cástris, a beautiful monastery in the outskirts of Évora.
I’ll be participating in the VI Cistercian Residency at the Monastery of S. Bento de Cástris in Évora next September 21-22. This year’s edition is dedicated to the various dimensions of the monastic-conventual heritage.
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 …