Luís Henriques

Academic Interests

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Recent Commons Activity

joined the group Music Encoding Initiative
deposited Uma Schola Cantorum na Sé de… in the group Music in the Azores studies

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About

Luís Henriques is a musicologist currently at the University of Évora, collaborator of CESEM, MPMP and ACROARTE. He was a scholarship holder in the project ORFEUS and is a researcher at the project PASEV “Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape (1540-1910)”, also developing his personal research project Canto Mensurable. He founded Ensemble da Sé de Angra and Ensemble Eborensis, recorded a CD with performances in Portugal, Azores and France. His research interests centre in the 16th and 17th-centuries Portuguese sacred vocal polyphony in Alentejo and music in the Azores archipelago.

Research porfolio: Publications, Conferences, Event Activity, Outreach, Music Editions, Projects, Discography, Performance.

Education

PhD in Music and Musicology, variant Musicology, at the University of Évora (2023)

Masters Degree in Musical Sciences, variant Historical Musicology, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon (2015)

Licenciate Degree in Music, variant Musicology, at the University of Évora (2011)

Blog Posts

Instrumental polyphony by Diogo Dias Melgaz (Luís Henriques, 2023-11-08)
Music editions performed by Grupo Vocal Olisipo at Música em S. Roque 2023 (Luís Henriques, 2023-10-20)
Manuel Botelho, a musician in 17th-century Évora (Canto Mensurable, 2023-10-05)
Guided Tour at the European Researchers’ Night in Évora (Luís Henriques, 2023-09-28)
The 17th century Portuguese composer Henrique de Faria (Canto Mensurable, 2023-01-24)
A procession imploring for rain in seventeenth century Évora (Canto Mensurable, 2022-11-10)
Paper presentation at the X Residência Cisterciense (Luís Henriques, 2022-09-23)
Participation in the X Residência Cisterciense S. Bento de Cástris (Luís Henriques, 2022-09-11)
Artists living at Porta Nova of Évora in the 16th century (Canto Mensurable, 2022-05-23)
Organ activity in the Church of Santo Antão, Évora, in the 1570s (Canto Mensurable, 2022-03-11)

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Projects

PASEV – Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape (1540-1910) (FCT ALT20

PhD Project “Late Portuguese Polyphony: The problem of continuity in the sacred work of Diogo Dias Melgaz and Pedro Vaz Rego” (FCT SFRH/BD/131505/2017)

Sacred Music in Évora during the Eighteenth Century, CESEM/University of Évora [scholarship holder]

ORFEUS – The Tridentine Reformation and Music in the Silence of the Cloister – The Monastery of S. Bento de Cástris (FCT EXPL/EPH-PAT/2253/2013) [scholarship holder]

Memberships

Early Modern Soundscapes network [member]

Musicologist • PhD

University of Évora