This article explores Schoenberg’s engagement with organicism, casting it as an aesthetic ideal.

This chapter provides a biographical sketch of Hauer’s life and music.

This article traces the reception of Schoenberg’s theoretical ideas in the English-language music theory community.

A celebração de novenas, assim como de septenários e trezenas, constitui uma importante manifestação de devoção popular desde o século XVIII até à atualidade, funcionando de forma parela à liturgia regular. O repertório musical escrito para estas ocasiões percorria praticamente todas as camadas da sociedade, com graus de complexidade diferente, c…[Read more]

A celebração de novenas, assim como de septenários e trezenas, constitui uma importante manifestação de devoção popular desde o século XVIII até à atualidade, funcionando de forma parela à liturgia regular. O repertório musical escrito para estas ocasiões percorria praticamente todas as camadas da sociedade, com graus de complexidade diferente, c…[Read more]

Nos manuscritos do fundo musical de São Bento de Cástris, estão representadas várias obras do padre Joaquim José da Rocha Espanca (1839-1896). Pretende este artigo debruçar-se sobre as três Lições de Trevas do compositor, destacando a sua especificidade litúrgica. Tendo sido compostas antes da morte definitiva do mosteiro, a 18 de Abril de 1890,…[Read more]

Livro de resumos do FlautUEncontro; contém apresentação do evento, resumos e biografias dos conferencistas e programas dos concertos.

The author is examining the interplay between voice and sculpture, within the field of sound art. The term ‘sculpture’ has been appropriated by many artists to define their work with the voice. Exploring the sculpted voice, three main categories are here identified: the plastic dimension of voice as a sculptable material, the sculptural…[Read more]

Of the various hermeneutic approaches to the study of music developed in the last half century or so, narratological analysis has gone further than many in navigating a path that draws on both cultural and structural contexts. This overview of the development of narrative theory in music charts the course of three “waves” of narratological eng…[Read more]

They say the global proliferation of colonial and neoliberal (ir)rationalities and the techno-managerial enclosure of the ‘commons’ (Hardt & Negri 2000; Harvey 2004) has resulted in a ‘foreclosure of politics’, prompting calls for a renewed technocultural hegemony for a post-capitalist future (Srnicek & Williams 2015) or a return to the revolut…[Read more]

O presente estudo incide sobre o cantor da capela de música da Catedral de Évora, José da Costa nas últimas décadas do século XVIII. Partindo de um processo de colação para o lugar de tesoureiro da colegiada de Santo Antão descobre-se nova informação sobre a biografia e carreira musical deste músico na sua interação entre a Catedral e a colegiada…[Read more]

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To further promote the performance of African American spirituals and art songs, this article offers a different perspective – direct response from collegiate voice students, voice teachers, vocal coaches, and professional singers. In the spring of 2005, “The African American Art Song Survey” was developed and disseminated through the Internet to…[Read more]

Availability of vocal music scores compilations containing art songs by African American composers. Supplemental content accompanying the book, So You Want to Sing Spirituals.

Of the 762 brass bands I have records of from County Durham, around 130 were colliery bands (and more of them would have been directly connected to the local colliery, even if not specifically named after the mine or mining company). This article looks briefly at the history of the Durham Miners’ Gala and the colliery bands that performed at it.

This is a ‘study of a choir’; the author joined the choir for three months and participated in every aspect, from rehearsals, dinners, a meeting to a gig. They chatted to the members, sang with them and talked to the choir leader and manager about everything from the ethos of the choir, to whether meat was served often enough at dinner. It was the…[Read more]

Baseado nas informações presentes no Arquivo Distrital de Évora (ISSN 2183-3427), pretende este artigo trazer à luz algumas leituras possíveis sobre a biografia de três dos compositores associados a Évora nos finais do século XVIII e inícios do XIX.

Artigo publicado no volume 1/2019 da Rivista Progressus, ISSN 2284-0869, que pretende analisar alguns dados iniciais sobre Miguel Anjo do Amaral, compositor, cantor e professor de violino em Évora nos finais do século XVIII e inícios do século XIX

Brass bands are, of course, musical organisations first and foremost, and the bulk of their heritage is bound up in the hundreds of thousands of concerts, marches, contests and other performances they have provided their audiences with over the years. Very few of these live performances were ever recorded, at least until recent years, and we must…[Read more]

During the 1890s and early parts of the 20th century a type of band arose using kazoo-type instruments. Zobo instruments, based on kazoo principles, were invented and developed in the USA in the early 1890s, rapidly becoming a new craze for a while. When the instruments spread to the UK the bands that were formed using them were largely “comic”…[Read more]