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.

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of Russian artists and scholars, known as the “formalists,” developed new concepts of…[Read more]

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]

In this book, I explore the connections between music for early movies (1895-1927) involving the supernatural in the context of the culture of the time in regard to supernatural beliefs and entertainments, particularly spiritualism.

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]

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

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

This essay analyzes two recent interactive documentary projects: Sharon Daniel’s Public Secrets (2006), an exploration of the prison industrial complex through the testimonies of female inmates in California, and Zohar Kfir’s Points of View (2014) which “maps” Palestinian video advocacy projects made for and/or disseminated by B’Tselem, a human r…[Read more]

Post Mortem by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín challenges traditional cinematic conventions of affect and spectacle through a narrative of spaces and bodies that is neither realist, comedic, nor melodramatic. This chapter draws upon affect theories that study the spectacle of cinematic spaces and political bodies in Latin American film. The…[Read more]

Women filled a number of roles in the American cinema music industry, particularly during
the Great War. In addition to serving as cultural barometers for cinematic music
and accompaniment, women were at the heart of innovations in cinema sound
and composition.

ABSTRACT
What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it show up in our experience, and how do we capture it in our analyses? “Enacting Musical Time” offers several answers to these questions by considering musical time as the form of the listener’s interaction with music. Building on evidence from music theory, phenomenology, c…[Read more]

O convento do Carmo de Évora foi fundado em 1531 com o apoio do Bispo de Évora, o Cardeal Infante D. Afonso de Portugal. A casa carmelita prosperou até 1663 quando as forças militares castelhanas puseram cerco a Évora, destruindo o convento nesse processo. Mais tarde foi oferecido aos frades carmelitas o antigo palácio dos Duques de Braga…[Read more]

Seung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer who called himself Question Mark, left a lot of questions behind him. One of them obviously speaks for itself: what motivated him to kill thirty-three strangers at Virginia Tech? Another question almost goes without saying: why do we seek refuge behind moral explanations? Like ‘the question mark kid’ the adult…[Read more]

Germany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg’s ur…[Read more]