The Barca di Venezia per Padova (The Boat from Venice to Padua) by Adriano Banchieri is a set of what we can call comedy madrigals for five voices (SSATB) which is basically a boat journey from Venice to Padua during which several of the passengers reveal themselves.Read more
One of the first editions I prepared for the Polyphonia series of the Editions MPMP in late 2012 was the collection of responsories for Christmas matins by composer Estêvão Lopes Morago which make the number 6 of this series.Read more
Gregorio Allegri’s (c.1582-1652) Miserere, mei Deus is without any doubt the most mystical work of sacred vocal polyphony of the Catholic world for its association with the musical practices in the Sistine Chapel. Together with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli it stands out in numerous CD recordings.Read more
Photo from my presentation at the CESEM/UÉvora Conferences in Music and Musicology, where I talked about Diogo Dias Melgaz’s beautiful motet Memento homo.Read more
Next October 31st (Sala dos Espelhos, Colégio Mateus d’Aranda, 14h00) I will give a brief presentation on one of the works by Diogo Dias Melgaz, the four-voice a capella motet Memento homo, for Ash Wednesday.Read more
When one speaks of water and music, in most cases, the first association is, naturally, the Wassermusik suites by Georg F. Handel. Indeed these works have established themselves as canonic in instrumental music repertoire of Western music. But there are many other relations between water and music, one of them being theRead more
Many times, I’m asked to give some advice on something related to my work, which I gladly do without thinking twice about it. That must be common to all historians and researchers and, in my case, I’m very happy to talk about my work.Read more
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
This is the edition number 14 of the “Polyphonia” series, featuring Portuguese sacred vocal polyphony from the 16th and 17th centuries, edited by MPMP – Movimento Patrimonial pela Música Portuguesa. This number is the fifth number devoted to the music of Estêvão Lopes Morago (c.1575-c.1630), composer of Spanish birth whoRead more
Photo from my paper presentation during the Conferences of 2.º FLAUTUÉ “Presence and Context of the Flute in Évora”, last July 10th in Évora Public Library. I spoke of wind instruments in the Cathedral and references found in the 17th and 18th centuries documental archives.Read more