Crítica para a edição online da revista “Glosas” do concerto de Gradualia, dirigido por Simón Andueza, na Sé de Évora, 6/10/2018, no âmbito das Jornadas Internacionais “Escola de Música da Sé de Évora”, que decorreram de 4 a 7 de Outubro.

Crítica para a edição online da revista “Glosas” do concerto de Contrapunctus, dirigido por Owen Rees, na Sé de Évora, 5/10/2018, no âmbito das Jornadas Internacionais “Escola de Música da Sé de Évora”, que decorreram de 4 a 7 de Outubro.

A Musicologia e a Performance são as duas grandes áreas de estudo musical com íntima ligação ao património musical monástico-conventual uma vez que, desde os primórdios da Cristandade Ocidental, esta ocupou um lugar central e omnipresente no cerimonial religioso das ordens religiosas. As práticas foram desaparecendo gradualmente ou transfor…[Read more]

A Catedral de Évora viu duas grandes construções durante a primeira metade do século XVIII. A primeira foi a construção do novo edifício para o Colégio dos Moços do Coro e a segunda consistiu na edificação de uma nova capela-mor para a Catedral. Neste estudo é analisada a construção da capela-mor a partir da perspectiva do seu impacto na ac…[Read more]

The intense changes that transformed Lisbon’s urban fabric between 1864 and 1908 were a key agent in reshaping the political economy of sound in the city.1 During the second half of the nineteenth century, Lisbon was getting to grips with modernity in a period when not only was the term ‘modern’ starting to be seen in a positive light, but moder…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the 1774 Portugal Inquisition’s Regiment and its link with the cultural interventionism that marked the Pombalist reformism, whichstarted at the second halfof 18th century. These are allthe policiesthat influenced the public, social, cultural and religious institutions of Portugal and its colonies, based in…[Read more]

O convento de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios de carmelitas descalços está localizado no exterior das muralhas de Évora. O edifício atual fora das muralhas foi fundado no início do século XVII e viu uma atividade contínua, apesar de ter sido ocupado pelas tropas espanholas durante a Guerra da Restauração em 1663. A sua localização junto com a fundação…[Read more]

Recently, international media outlets have celebrated São Paulo for its cosmopolitan musical output and its vibrant street art scenes. That discourse connected the city other generative periods in the histories of so-called “global cities,” such as New York of the 1970s. In those cities, the simultaneous developments of multiple creative scenes…[Read more]

This paper analyses the mechanisms, outcomes, and consequences of the Nigerian protest movement using longitudinal qualitative research. To go about this, the paper looks at the protests in the context of neo-Liberal reforms, the essential trigger of the movement, its objectives, and its achievements are described. The movement started on January…[Read more]

Many music librarians participate in professional and amateur music making. We face similar performance practice/interpretive issues as do our music library users. This panel discussion focuses on application of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to performance practice in experimental music. Four music librarians with significant…[Read more]

Many music librarians participate in professional and amateur music making. We face similar performance practice/interpretive issues as do our music library users. This panel discussion focuses on application of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to performance practice in experimental music. Four music librarians with significant…[Read more]

Many music librarians participate in professional and amateur music making. We face similar performance practice/interpretive issues as do our music library users. This panel discussion focuses on application of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to performance practice in experimental music. Four music librarians with significant…[Read more]

Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site…[Read more]

Several books containing polyphonic works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina were copied during the first half of the eighteenth century for use in the churches of Évora and Elvas, and the chapel of the Ducal Palace in Vila Viçosa. This was probably a consequence following the desire of the Portuguese King D. João V and the import of the so…[Read more]

This essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical research on the recent past, when compared to earlier periods of history. It explores why this might be the case, focussing in particular on both the obstacles and some missing drivers to mass digitisation of primary sources for the 20th century. It suggests…[Read more]

This thesis seeks to contribute towards the emerging discourse in Ravel studies concerning gender, as well as adding to the ongoing work in musical narratology, especially as regards ballet, to which very little narratological attention has been given. Employing a combination of narratological and Schenkerian analysis, this thesis argues that…[Read more]