Ornitópera by Companhia de Música Teatral wins international award for ‘Best Opera’ and ‘Public Choice’ at the YAMAwards 2024
Companhia de Música Teatral’s (CMT) performance Ornitópera was honoured with the ‘Best Opera’ award at the Young Audiences Music Awards (YAMAwards) 2024, after being nominated in the ‘Best Opera’ and ‘Best Chamber Music Ensemble’ categories. It was also distinguished with the ‘Public Choice’ award. The YAMAwards are international awards organised by Jeunesses Musicales International to... Read More
Call for the attribution of one Research Initiation Scholarship – CESEM and IEM I Deadline October 1 2024
Applications are now open for one (1) Research Initiation Scholarship within the scope of the project “Livros, rituais e espaço num Mosteiro Cisterciense feminino. Viver, ler e rezar em Lorvão nos séculos XIII a XVI” (PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020), financed by national funds through FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). For more information, see the details on the FCSH or Euraxess websites.... Read More
‘Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels’ I COST Action Early Muse (June 2024)
From June 21 to 29, 2024, CESEM hosted eight international visitors for the Short Term Scientific Mission ‘Musicologists and Their Sources: The Alchemy of Turning Parchment into Pixels’, organised by Elsa De Luca. This event was sponsored by the European Union through the ‘COST – European Cooperation in Science and Technology’ programme, under COST Action... Read More
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‘Musical language in the construction of intersubjectivity in films by Manoel de Oliveira’ I Conference by Professor Vânia Cristina Casseb Galvão
The research actions of the three-year period (2023-2026) of the Cátedra Manoel de Oliveira/Unisalento are hereby inaugurated with the project ‘Musical language as an expression of intersubjectivity in Manoel de Oliveira’s films’. Intersubjectivity concerns the manifestations and evaluations (implicit or explicit) of the interlocutors regarding the content enunciated in the enunciative process (Hengeveld; Mackenzie, 2010)... Read More
A dream in féerie: music and image in the construction of the oneiric environment of Venus | Paper by Joana Peliz in Germany
Joana Peliz will present the paper A dream in féerie: music and image in the construction of the oneiric environment of Venus at the conference Dream and Music Theatre after 1800: Continuities, Turning Points, Perspectives. The conference will take place from 18 to 20 September at the Institute of Musicology (University of Tübingen) in Germany.... Read More
CESEM at the National Library I Documentary description of an estimated 9,000 documents from the Music collections of the BNP
CESEM has assembled a team of specialists, which also includes students and young musicologists at the start of their careers, for the documentary description of an estimated 9,000 documents from the BNP’s Music collections (Musical Manuscripts/Manuscritos Musicais [M.M.] and National Conservatory/Conservatório Nacional [C.N.]). This project, which will lead to the digitisation of all the musical... Read More
Cistercian Horizons: Collected Essays I Chapters by Alberto Medina de Seiça, Manuel Pedro Ferreira and Zuelma Chaves
Cistercian Horizons: Collected Essays, recently edited by Catarina Fernandes Barreira, Conceição Casanova and Maria Filomena Andrade, is available in open access and includes two chapters by CESEM researchers. The chapter ‘Alcobaça and its Liturgy for St James’ by Manuel Pedro Ferreira can be found in Part II of the essay collection, ‘Liturgy and its Practice’.... Read More
‘Musical Transgressions – sound and space in Scelsi’s Tre Pezzi for saxophone’ I Communication-performance by Ângela da Ponte and Miriam Aneiros
The proposal for a communication-performance by Ângela da Ponte, a researcher associated with the Research Group on Contemporary Music, and the saxophonist Miriam Aneiros has been accepted for the ‘TransVariations_Music Beyond the Limits of Time and Technology’ International Colloquium organised by INET-md at the University of Aveiro. The communication-performance ‘Musical Transgressions – sound and space... Read More
Newsletter I September 2024
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Júlia Durand awarded with an Honourable Mention in the IMS Outstanding Dissertation Award
Júlia Durand was awarded with 4th Honourable Mention in the International Musicological Society (IMS) Outstanding Dissertation Award 2024 for her dissertation ‘Tool, retail or wallpaper: catalogue music in online audiovisual creation’ (“Ferramenta, retalho ou papel de parede: a música de catálogo na criação audiovisual online”), Nova FCSH Lisboa (PT), 2023. The thesis was supervised by... Read More