My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

Illustration as part of art works has often been considered a form of low art, but as it has progressively become more developed, it has established a decent place in the art community. Through this paper, the authors have tried to apply a primarily participatory research method, including participant observation, deep interview, and literature…[Read more]

Illustration as part of art works has often been considered a form of low art, but as it has progressively become more developed, it has established a decent place in the art community. Through this paper, the authors have tried to apply a primarily participatory research method, including participant observation, deep interview, and literature…[Read more]

An introduction to music appreciation and history that emphasizes the political, cultural, and social influences on music from antiquity to the 20th century. Contents include sacred and secular, vocal and instrumental, and folk and art music from across the Western world, including modern popular song. No previous musical experience necessary. All…[Read more]

In The Burns Antiphoner – From manuscript to interactive resource, Anna Kijas reports on a new project based around a 14th-century source, the Burns Antiphoner. In this project they focus on integrating and delivering images, metadata, and recorded audio and video to provide an in-depth look at the contents and experience of this particular s…[Read more]

O convento de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios de Évora, de Carmelitas Descalços, situa-se imediatamente a seguir à muralha fernandina, em frente da Porta de Alconchel. Devido à sua localização, este convento esteve no centro da acção durante o cerco de Évora pelas tropas de D. João de Áustria em 1663. Todavia, o convento manteve uma actividade…[Read more]

In 1984 I published a chapter on the art song, simply entitled “Song,” in my first book, Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (University of California Press). The chapter aimed to replace the traditional understanding of song as a harmonious fusion of words and music. The chapter has had a fortunate reception, but as time has run…[Read more]

A short article reflecting on the relationship of Schubert’s songs to the culture of modernity, with reference to the author’s 1985 article “The Schubert Lied.” Includes an account of the song “Wanderers Nachtled.”

A prática instrumental em Portugal, particularmente na cidade de Évora, entre os séculos XVI e XVIII consistiu maioritariamente na participação de instrumentos dentro de um contexto predominantemente sacro, com o seu maior expoente na actividade da Catedral da cidade. Durante todo o século XVII foi mantido um tipo de agrupamento instrumental típic…[Read more]

The idea of an historical soundscape of the urban space was one of the many areas that developed from a wider idea of what is now called as cultural landscape. This idea of mapping urban sounds from an historical perspective was pioneered in the Iberian Peninsula with a project that involved the Andalusian cities of Seville and Granada and other…[Read more]

Apresentação do projecto “Música Sacra em Évora no Século XVIII” em desenvolvimento pelo pólo da Universidade de Évora do Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical.

The open access movement has taken a strong hold within cultural heritage institutions, as large-scale digitization efforts are becoming increasingly popular in most libraries, museums, and archives. These initiatives have had a particular effect on the status of rare and unique materials through the provision of high-quality images and…[Read more]

The Church of Santo Antão is located in the Praça do Giraldo, the main square of Évora. It was built in the mid-sixteenth century by Cardinal D. Henrique Archbishop of Évora. This church was one of the most important musical centres of the city with the Cathedral’s mestre da Claustra Manuel Mendes (c.1547-1605) (chapel master in Santo Antão) as o…[Read more]

Two Pietàs in different media, the first by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) and the second by Swedish composer Lisa Streich (1985-), permit an examination of the Pietà trope itself by laying open a range of its symbolic aspects. Bouguereau’s Pietà (1876) is discussed in terms of the grief and joy that are both presen…[Read more]

In April 2010, the Guildhall School of Music recognized German composer Helmut Lachenmann’s expertise in extended instrumental techniques, inviting him to give the keynote speech at a research day dedicated to contemporary performance practice; in May, he had a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music conferred upon him for his achievements as a…[Read more]

This paper engages with the existing body of archival literature that addresses what has been termed “documentary art” in order to address questions regarding the treatment of visual materials in archival practice and theory. It will also borrow and apply theories from the disciplines of material culture studies and art history in order to for…[Read more]

Through an engagement with theory from the fields of art history, anthropology, and sociology, this article examines the archival existence of medieval manuscripts and facilitates an understanding of archival practice and its effects on user experience from the perspective of the researcher, rather than from that of the archivist or information…[Read more]

Through a discussion of the materiality of photographic documents and the inherent qualities of digital objects, this article examines the viability of digitization as a method of archival photographic preservation. By exploring notions of surrogacy, originality, and aura, the author presents and deconstructs the popular argument that digital…[Read more]

Preview of the edition of Portuguese composer Diogo Dias Melgaz’s (1638-1700) motet Salve Regina for four voices (SATB). Polyphonia 30. Work is fully available at http://mpmp.pt/produto/polyphonia-30-melgaz-salve-regina/

This work presents a brief overview on the history of Web archiving projects in some English speaking countries, paying particular attention to the development and main problems faced by the UK Web Archive Consortium (UKWAC) and UK Web Archive partnership in Britain. It highlights, particularly, the changeable nature of Web pages through constant…[Read more]