I have recently publish an article on the Brazilian journal Revista Maracanan (written in Portuguese) about the context of historical soundscape surrounding the hermitage of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios in Angra do Heroísmo, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
This psalm-motet by Tomás Luis de Victoria has a powerful and strinking effect. His polychoral music began to appear around the same time as that of Palestrina and Super flumina Babylonis is a polychoral work, although the bassus parts are not always treated in …
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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.
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 …
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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.
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.
Another video of the project Early Music Sources comprises the musical analysis of Cipriano de Rore’s madrigal Amor ben mi credevo.
The motet Veni Domine by Spanish composer Francisco Guerrero is, in my opinion, one of his finest works. The text “Veni Domine et noli tardare” was set to polyphony by numerous Spanish composers: Cristóbal de Morales (with 2 settings), Juan Esquível, and …
In 2014 I prepared an edition of Matheo d’Aranda’s surviving polyphonic works for the number 11 of the Polyphonia series of musical editions published by the Edições MPMP of Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa.
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 …