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- Some early 2015 Updates
Some early 2015 Updates 2015 has began with some new features added to Canto Mensurable. We are currently working on a new resource page gathering a collection of Portuguese early … - New music editionsWe have been preparing a list of new music edition releases through the first semester of this year. These editions are featured in the Portuguese Sixteenth Century Polyphony, Portuguese Seventeenth …
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- Aparicio Vasquez, chapel master of Prince Henry, the Navigator
Aparicio Vasquez, chapel master of Prince Henry, the Navigator ❧ The fifteenth century is still less-known period in the Portuguese Music History, despite several recent efforts to cast some light …Aparicio Vasquez, chapel master of Prince Henry, the Navigator Read More »
- Around two sixteenth-century doors in Évora and their musical context
Around two sixteenth-century doors in Évora and their musical context ❧ The door, an object of everyday life frequently forgotten, has, in certain contexts, some historical significance, sometimes not by …Around two sixteenth-century doors in Évora and their musical context Read More »
- Some notes on the Spanish composer Hernando Franco’s activity in Portugal
Some notes on the Spanish composer Hernando Franco’s activity in Portugal ❧ Hernando Franco is nowadays a fairly well-known composer, mostly associated with the flourishing music activity at Mexico City …Some notes on the Spanish composer Hernando Franco’s activity in Portugal Read More »
- The organ of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Guia in Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island): some notes
The organ of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Guia in Angra do Heroísmo (Terceira Island): some notes ❧ The Azores has a dense concentration of around sixty organs distributed … - The choir lectern of Angra Cathedral (Terceira Island, Azores)
The choir lectern of Angra Cathedral (Terceira Island, Azores) ❧ Lecterns played an important part in the visual culture of musical practice in church choirs throughout the centuries. The stalls …The choir lectern of Angra Cathedral (Terceira Island, Azores) Read More »
- The Procession of Soledade in 1656 Évora
The Procession of Soledade in 1656 Évora ❧ The so-called Good Friday procession organized by the Misericórdia of Évora in 1656, was in fact the procession of the Soledade. This … - The motet Ecce mulier Chananea by Fr. Manuel Cardoso
The motet Ecce mulier Chananea by Fr. Manuel Cardoso1 ❧ Manuel Cardoso was baptized on 11 December 1566, in the Parish Church of Fronteira, being most of his biographic details …The motet Ecce mulier Chananea by Fr. Manuel Cardoso Read More »
- The motet Mulier quae erat by Manuel CardosoThe motet Mulier quae erat by Manuel Cardoso ❧ Manuel Cardoso was born in the small Portuguese village of Fronteira (near the Spanish border), possibly in the second semester of …
- The motet Dominus dabit benignitatem by Ludovico Balbi
The motet Dominus dabit benignitatem by Ludovico Balbi ❧ Both the sixteenth as the seventeenth centuries were times when an almost infinite number of musicians worked in European religious institutions …The motet Dominus dabit benignitatem by Ludovico Balbi Read More »
- Manuel Botelho, a musician in 17th-century Évora
Manuel Botelho, a musician in 17th-century Évora ❧ Most of what we read regarding the musical activity in Évora Cathedral from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is frequently focused …Manuel Botelho, a musician in 17th-century Évora Read More »
- The 17th century Portuguese composer Henrique de Faria
The 17th century Portuguese composer Henrique de Faria ❧ As is the case with many Portuguese composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, those whose musical careers were mostly developed …The 17th century Portuguese composer Henrique de Faria Read More »
- The Francisco Valls’s Missa Scala Aretina controversy
The Francisco Valls’s Missa Scala Aretina controversy ❧ Among the recent readings on Iberian music in the last decades of the seventeenth and early decades of the eighteenth century, one …The Francisco Valls’s Missa Scala Aretina controversy Read More »
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