Presentation of Noble et sentimental at the Alcobaça Music Festival
On July 5 (5.00 pm), Cesário Costa (Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication) will present his latest book, Noble et sentimental: Pedro de Freitas Branco and the Interpretation of Maurice Ravel’s Music, at the Alcobaça Music Festival (Armazém das Artes). Pedro de Freitas Branco (1896-1963) was one of the most... Read More
27
Jun
2025
Preview of the documentary “Mestres e Sons Lusitanos”: João Domingos Bomtempo
On July 8, the National Library of Portugal will host the premiere of the biographical documentary “Mestres e Sons Lusitanos” about the Portuguese composer João Domingos Bomtempo. Entrance is free. The documentary is part of the series “Mestres e Sons Lusitanos”, a six-part series about the most famous Portuguese composers who marked the history of... Read More
Eborense version of Mozart’s Requiem released by Swedish publisher Wessmans
The Swedish publisher Wessmans has recently released an edition of Mozart’s Requiem prepared by CESEM (University of Évora) researchers Rodrigo Teodoro de Paula (Music in the Modern Period Group) and João Ricardo (Research Group on Contemporary Music). This edition draws on 19th-century manuscripts preserved in the Évora Cathedral Archives and presents a version adapted for a... Read More
Publication of article by Marco Brescia (MMP) in Diacrítica – Journal of the Centre for Humanistic Studies
The article by Marco Brescia (Music in the Modern Period Group), entitled “António José dos Santos (c. 1808–1883). Moderniser of Oporto’s organ landscape and the figurehead of Portuguese organ-making in the second half of the 19th century”, is available in open access in Diacrítica, vol. 39, no. 1 (2025), pp. 4-25 (SCOPUS-indexed journal). Click here... Read More
Participation of Rosana Marreco Brescia (MMP) in the 6th Transnational Opera Studies Conference in Cambridge, England
The researcher Rosana Marreco Brescia (Music in the Modern Period Group) will take part in the upcoming edition of the Transnational Opera Studies Conference (TOSC@), to be held at the University of Cambridge from 7 to 9 July, with the communication ‘Drama Queens: Opera and the Empowerment of Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil’. This conference is... Read More
25
Jun
2025
Pedagogical Seminar — Performing and musical practices in contemporaneity
The avant-garde movements of the twentith century led to a redefinition of artistic languages, promoting encounters and symbiosis between expressions and, consequently, new modes of communication. In the field of performing arts, space is opened for the post-dramatic (Hans-Thies Lehmann), in which conventional narrative is replaced by other forms of contact between languages, through parataxis,... Read More
Release of the CD Flores de Mvsica (1620) by Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
CESEM is pleased to announce the recent release of the fifth volume of the complete Flores de Mvsica pera o instrumento de tecla, & harpa (1620) by Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, on the English label INVENTA Records (Resonus Classics). The CD was recorded in December 2024 by researcher Marco Brescia (Music in the Modern Period Group)... Read More
“Viseu Cidade Feliz” by Tiago Gonzaga Videira was the winning theme of the “Marcha Viseu 2025” call
On the evening of June 14, starting at 9 p.m., Avenida da Europa was the stage for the Viseu Popular Saints Parade and Marching Contest. There were seven marching groups marching down the avenue from schools, associations and institutions, with a total of 588 people involved. All the groups performed the winning march, as well... Read More
17
Jun
2025
Contemporaneities Cycle I ‘Music-theatre in Brazil: historical, historiographical and compositional aspects’
Fernando Magre is a musicologist, Professor of Historical Musicology at the Espírito Santo State College of Music (FAMES) and Collaborating Professor in the Postgraduate Music Programmes at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) and the University of Brasília (UnB). He holds a PhD in Music from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), a Master’s degree... Read More
Paper by Mário Vieira de Carvalho (CTC) at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Mário Vieira de Carvalho‘s paper at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, entitled ‘O Barba Azul dos teatros e a caricatura na crónica e na ficção queirosianas’, is available here. As well as being the founder of CESEM in 1997, Mário Vieira de Carvalho is a member of the Research Group for the Study of Music,... Read More