Manuel Cardoso foi um dos mais importantes compositores portugueses da primeira parte do século XVII, tendo sido também um dos compositores que mais música viu impressa. Do último livro impresso, o Livro de varios motetes (Lisboa, 1648), encontra-se o motete Ecce mulier Chananea para quatro vozes (SATB). Este é um breve texto analítico desta obra…[Read more]

The beatification of Saint Teresa of Ávila in October 1614 gave rise to widespread celebrations in many of the cities and towns of the Iberian Peninsula. Printed relaciones describing these celebrations, despite their limitations —in terms of political agenda, propaganda, rivalry and literary style— can nevertheless provide information about musi…[Read more]

Edition of Spanish composer Juan Navarro’s (c.1530-1580) psalm Dixit Dominus for four voices (SATB) from his Psalmi, hymni, ac Magnificat totius anni… printed in Rome and published posthumously in 1590. Original note values were kept in this edition and the work was transposed down a major second.

Edition of Spanish composer Diego Ortiz’s (c.1510-c.1570) Vespers psalm Dixit Dominus for four voices (SATB), from his 1565 Musices Liber Primus. Original note values and original pitch were kept in this edition.

Edition of two organ verses on the hymn Ave Maris Stella from manuscript P-Pm Ms. 1067, a late-seventeenth-century book entiled “Livro de órgão de Fr. Roque da Conceição”.