The motet Salve Regina, for four voices, is probably Diogo Dias Melgaz’s best-known work. Melgaz was born in the Alentejo village of Cuba in 1638 and died in Évora in 1700 and is one of the Évora Cathedral composers whose …
This polyphony setting of the antiphon Asperges me comes from Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo’s first Liber Missarum of 1621. It was one of the books Lobo printed in Antwerp at the famous Officina Plantiniana by Balthazar Moretus.
In February 2013 I made several concerts with Ensemble da Sé de Angra in Terceira Island (Azores). One of these concerts was in the Church of Santa Cruz of Praia da Vitória, where we made the recording presented in this …
II HISTORICAL SOUNDSCAPES MEETING • ÉVORA 2019 Colégio Mateus d’Aranda, University of Évora • 16-18 October 2019 The notion of soundscapes, which is being increasingly referred to in international musicological circles, makes it possible to understand musical activity that takes place in …
This two-verse polyphonic setting of the hymn Stabat Mater dolorosa is attributed to Portuguese composer Estêvão de Brito (c.1575-1641) and is now preserved in a 18th-century copied choirbook in Málaga Cathedral, where Brito was chapel master in the beginning of …
In 2016 was the 450th anniversary of Portuguese composer frei Manuel Cardoso’s birth. He was baptized on December 11, 1566, in the Church of Fronteira, a small village near the Spanish border. He wrote several Lamentations settings for the Triduum …
VII RESIDÊNCIA CISTERCIENSE S. BENTO DE CÁSTRIS Conventualidades: representações e vestígios do quotidiano Mosteiro de S. Bento de Cástris, Évora • 20-21 de setembro de 2019 O ano de 2019 marca a realização da VII edição da Resdiência cisterciense no mosteiro …
I have published recently an article (in Portuguese) in the Brazilian journal Museologia & Interdisciplinaridade focusing on the organs of Terceira Island, in the Azores archipelago.
It’s been four years since the official presentation of the CD “The tridentine reformation and the music in the silence of the cloister: The monastery of São Bento de Cástris, a project of the Ensemble Eborensis I directed, forming a …
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I have recently published a brief text (in Portuguese) on the Portugueze online magazine InComunidade titled “Algumas notas sobre o motete Memento homo de Diogo Dias Melgaz”, in the issue 78 of last March.