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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 Jorge Matta. Cada programa foca uma época, um género, umRead more

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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 the Azorean island of Flores.Read more

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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

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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

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This is a small video that, in a very clear and resumed way, shows how music books were printed in the sixteenth century and afterwards. It features the process using movable pieces of type, very similar to that of traditional printing of the time.Read more

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I will be posting some texts, photos, and videos of organs extant in the Azores archipelago. There are about fifty of these instruments in eight of the nine islands in various states of conservation. A very strong effort was made in late-80s and 90s to restore the historical instruments (mostlyRead more