This special collection serves as a platform for an interdisciplinary dialogue between music technology and musicology, promoting scholarly discussions on the application and usability of digital technologies to enhance music research, and capturing contemporary trends and emerging directions in digital musicology scholarship. It is simultaneously inspired by the recent “Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research... Read More

The management team will be on holiday from December 23 to January 6. See you soon!

FCT, I.P. has announced the opening of the Call for Exploratory Research Projects. The objective is to fund exploratory projects in all scientific domains, focusing on innovative proposals for researchers at the start of their careers, or on original ideas and concepts that have a high degree of novelty and show the potential to disrupt previous... Read More

The poster “SINGINGWOMB: Contributos do canto pré-natal”, produced as part of the dissemination of the project SingingWomb – Women’s health, well-being in pregnancy and perinatal bonding: contributions of prenatal singing, funded by FCT (2022.01750.PTDC), was awarded the prize for best poster at the IX Encontro Ser Bebé – Ser Bebé no Mundo em Mudança, organised... Read More

Applications are now open for the selection of one (1) PhD researcher within the scope of the project ‘Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis’ (2022.01957.PTDC), financed by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). For more information, see the details on the FCSH or Euraxess websites. First minute: PDF Second minute: PDF

Among the recent activities of researcher Filipa Magalhães, co-coordinator of the Research Group on Contemporary Music, it is worth highlighting the publication of the article “Arquivar e reativar o teatro-música português” (‘Archiving and reactivating Portuguese music theatre’) in ‘Revista Sinais de Cena’. It is possible to read the article here. Filipa Magalhães also contributed to... Read More

The fifth edition of the Rencontres de musicologie médiévale (RMM 5) counts on Océane Boudeau’s co-organisation, also present on the event’s scientific committee, and Kristin Hoefener’s participation. Both researchers are from the Early Music Studies Group. The event will take place between 13 and 15 January in Lyon, France. Kristin Hoefener’s paper, ‘L’office liturgique O... Read More

Mafalda Nejmeddine, a researcher at the Music in the Modern Period Group, wrote the musical critic “Quando é que Bomtempo esteve à volta do barroco?” (‘When was Bomtempo around the Baroque?’), published by the Observador newspaper on December 11. The text discusses a concert held at the Casa da Música in Porto.