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).Read more
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 HERE) will be performed by Grupo Vocal Olisipo, a Lisbon-basedRead more
Fr. Pedro de Cristo (his secular name being Domingos) was a friar at the Augustinian monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. He was probably born around 1550 and died on December 12th, 1618.Read more
This is another episode of the project Early Music Sources. This episode is dedicated to the Romanesca, one of the most widely known bass sequences in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Read more
In 2014 I transcribed the two surviving parts – the altus secundus and the bassus – of Portuguese King D. João IV’s 6-voice motet Anima mea turbata est as an exercise in order to understand if it was possible to reconstruct the remaining four voices from those two.Read more