It has now been published at the repository the edition of Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães’ Magnificat Sexti Toni [odd verses]. The work for four voices is available for download in full and is part of the series published by Canto Mensurable editions in open access. Magalhães (c.1571-1652) was aRead more
An article was published a while ago (most precisely, on the second semester of 2019) on the Portuguese journal Herança – Revista de História, Património e Cultura on musical heritage in early seventeenth-century Angra Cathedral, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores.Read more
Today is the presentation of the CD Herança, by the Grupo Vocal Olisipo (dir. Armando Possante), in which I was involved in the music edition, booklet text and repertoire consulting. This was a very good experience and it allowed the revival of quite a number of musical works by composersRead more
I have been collaborating with Portuguese ensemble Grupo Vocal Olisipo and its director Armando Possante in the edition of the group’s latest CD, titled Herança (Heritage), which I think will be launched by the end of the year. I have contributed with several music editions of works by Manuel MendesRead more
The paper of my participation (in Portuguese) in the II International Congress on the Interdisciplinarity on Social and Human Sciences, that took place in Faro, at the University of Algarve in May 2017. Its an introductory approach to the soundscape of Évora in the seventeenth century based on the musicalRead more
I have published the text “A antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater: Prática musical mariana na Sé de Évora no final do século XVII e século XVIII” in the ebook Paisagens Sonoras Urbanas: História, Memória e Património, edited by Antónia Fialho Conde and Vanda de Sá and published in the Publicações doRead more
Next 30 November I will be giving a Historical Soundscape walking tour through some of Évora’s historical centre streets. This is the closing activity of the I International Research Meeting for Music and Musicology Students, which will take place at the University of Évora from next 28 to 30 November.Read more
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.Read more
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 post.Read more
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 the 17th century.Read more