Category Archives: Musicology

Christopher Page – The Christian West and It’s Singers

  By Luís Henriques | 15 de Maio de 2013 - 5:09 pm | ,
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The Christian West and It’s Singers: The First 1000 Years

A renowned scholar and musician presents a new and innovative exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art. Beginning in the time of the New Testament, when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background, Christopher Page traces the history of music in Europe through the development of Gregorian chant – a music that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear – to the invention of the musical staff, regarded as the fundamental technology of Western music. (mais…)

Charles Rosen – Music and Sentiment

  By Luís Henriques | 12 de Dezembro de 2012 - 12:56 pm | ,
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How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully observed. In this succinct and penetrating book, Charles Rosen draws upon more than a half century as a performer and critic to reveal how composers from Bach to Berg have used sound to represent and communicate emotion in mystifyingly beautiful ways. (mais…)

Call for Papers “Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600″

  By Luís Henriques | 25 de Novembro de 2012 - 12:05 pm | , ,
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4-6 October 2013 | University of Sheffield

“Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600″

Manuscript and print sources have traditionally had a central role in establishing and examining musical texts. However, they also have much to reveal about the meanings and purposes assigned to music by the people who commissioned, made, owned and used them. In this context, the ‘use’ of music sources extends beyond their role in live performance, to encompass also their use as gifts and as objects for collection and display. Aspects of noble, bourgeois, artistic and professional identities rested on the ways in which musical texts were selected, presented, distributed and used in this expanded sense. This conference turns the spotlight onto the people involved in music manuscripts and prints, asking what the sources with which they are connected can tell us about the various motives lying behind their investment in music. (mais…)

Congresso “Joan Cabanilles, Culminación de la Música Barroca Hispánica”

  By Luís Henriques | 20 de Novembro de 2012 - 10:25 am | ,
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21-23 November 2012 | Universitat de València

“Joan Cabanilles, Culminación de la Música Barroca Hispánica”

Congreso Conmemorativo del Tercer Centenario de su Muerte

El Instituto de Valenciano de la Música (Generalitat Valenciana), en colaboración con la Universitat de València, el Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) y el Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte), organizan este congreso internacional como parte de la conmemoración del tercer centenario de la muerte del organista valenciano Joan Cabanilles (1644-1712). En él se tratarán diferentes aspectos de la música barroca hispánica, con especial atención a la estética del órgano y el repertorio para voces y teclado. Joan Cabanilles, organista de la Catedral Metropolitana de Valencia, fue un renovador de la música orgánica y un gran polifonista vocal de singular relevancia en el contexto ibérico y europeo. Su extensa obra alcanzó una enorme repercusión y significó la culminación de la música barroca hispánica. (mais…)

II Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música

  By Luís Henriques | 15 de Novembro de 2012 - 10:00 am | ,
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16-18 de Novembro de 2012 | Castelo Branco (Portugal)

II Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música

Organização:
SPIM-Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música

O II Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música (ENIM 2012) terá lugar em Castelo Branco (Portugal), em colaboração com a Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas, de Sexta-feira, 16 a Domingo, 18 de Novembro de 2012. (mais…)

Lewis, Mary (ed.) – Sources and the Circulation of Renaissance Music

  By Luís Henriques | 14 de Novembro de 2012 - 10:05 am | ,
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This volume explores the means and motives for the distribution of music during the Renaissance. Music in the fifteenth century was available almost exclusively through manuscript copies, while the introduction of the printing of polyphonic music at the beginning of the sixteenth century profoundly changed the circulation of music. (mais…)