Elsa De Luca
Elsa De Luca is going to present a research seminar on “Silent Music, Secret Writing: An Overview of Old Hispanic Notation and Visigothic Cryptography”. We will take an imaginary tour of medieval Iberia, visiting monk scribes, charters, and some music whose sound has been lost forever. The event will be streamed on Zoom and it... Read More
Andrew Woolley – New Article
Article on seventeenth-century French dance music published Andrew Woolley’s article “From Arrangements to New Compositions: Seventeenth-Century French Dance Music in Portuguese and Spanish Keyboard Sources to 1720” has been published in issue 16/1 of De musica disserenda, the journal of the Institute of Musicology ZRC SAZU (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences... Read More
Ana Isabel Pereira
Ana Isabel Pereira is a PhD Student of the Musicology Doctoral Programme, specialism in Education and Psychology of Music. 28th International Pre-Conference Seminar on Research in Music Education, International Society for Music Education (ISME) Research Commission 27 – 31 July 2020 Online conference organized by ISME in partnership with the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Oral presentation of the paper:... Read More
New article by André Malhado
André Malhado’s article, “Um hipotexto da cultura audiovisual ciberpunk: a participação de Blade Runner no regime de representação ciberpunk” has been published in Cinema e Outras Artes III – Diálogos e Inquietudes Artísticas, edited by Anabela Branco de Oliveira, Ana Catarina Pereira, Alfredo Taunay, Liliana Rosa and Nelson Araújo. Covilhã: LABCOM. Access book here
Call for papers – Nova Contemporary Music Meeting 2nd Edition: Music Performance as Creation
Musical Performance as creation 5 to 7 May 2021, Lisbon, Portugal Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) is a biennial, 3-day international conference launched by the Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) of CESEM (Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Musical Aesthetics at Nova University, Lisbon) and focused on a variety of questions relating to... Read More
UPDATE SUBMISSIONS SUPPORT: Call for Papers – MedRen 2021 Lisbon
UPDATE: The Septenary Foundation plans to support the travel costs of independent performer-researchers intending to present a paper in person at MedRen 2021. Further details will appear on the Septenary Editions website (https://www.septenaryeditions.com/) in due course. On 5–9 July 2021, the FCSH–School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa will host the... Read More
UPDATE SUBMISSIONS SUPPORT: Call for Papers – MedRen 2021 Lisbon
UPDATE: The Septenary Foundation plans to support the travel costs of independent performer-researchers intending to present a paper in person at MedRen 2021. Further details will appear on the Septenary Editions website (https://www.septenaryeditions.com/) in due course. On 5–9 July 2021, the FCSH–School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa will host the... Read More
Richard Wagner Circle Award – Young Essayist: 2021 Edition
Resulting from a partnership between the Opera Studies Research Line of the CESEM and the Portuguese Richard Wagner Circle, the “Young Essayist Award” will distinguish an essay, written in Portuguese, on the artistic and intellectual legacy of Richard Wagner, particularly with regard to its contemporary repercussions. The winner will receive a travel grant to Bayreuth (where... Read More
CANTO DA SAUDADE in Portuguese-Brazilian Classical Composers
Launch of a new CD by Pedro Miguel Nunes (baritone), accompanied by pianist Daniel Sanches, both concertists and researchers at CESEM. The CD, with worldwide release not only in its physical format but also in 150 Digital Platforms, includes immortal themes by great Portuguese and Brazilian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as... Read More
Important info about what’s new in Apple’s Macintosh line: new macOS 11 Big Sur and the new Apple M1 chip
As CESEM’s computer equipment (and of its researchers) are mostly Apple branded, it is important for our researchers to be aware of the changes that have recently taken place in the Apple Macintosh line. Last week a new operating system (macOS 11 – Big Sur) was launched and, more importantly, Apple will gradually (but quickly)... Read More