Text on Music, Earthquakes and Famine
2019-01-29
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.Read more
Text on Vicente Lusitano’s Heu me Domine
2019-01-24
I have recently publish a brief text on Vicente Lusitano’s chromatic motet Heu me Domine in the online edition of the Portuguesese music magazine Glosas, edited by Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.Read more
Introduction to the Historical Soundscape of Flores Island
2019-01-20
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 the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was an important stepRead more
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina • Viri Galilaei
2019-01-16
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s musical output is quite extraordinary. Although the numbers might suggest a tedious amount of works (and there are quite a few very similar in shape and thematic carving) there is still an enormous field of diversity and of sonic impact on the modern listener.Read more
Manuel Cardoso • Magnificat Secundi Toni
2019-01-09
The version of the Magnificat Secundi Toni set to the even verses is probably one of Manuel Cardoso’s (1566-1650) best known works and certainly one of most recorded ones.Read more