Registrations open for VIII Cistercian Residence São Bento de Cástris – Timeless sounds: from the monastery walls to global conversations
The very peculiar year of 2020, when we realize our vulnerabilities, also implies the design of new ways of communication that, not substituting the face-to-face debate of ideas, allows us to keep the Residence as an open and dialogue space to which we have become accustomed. , although in a virtual way. Thus, the VIIIth... Read More
2020 Protest Song Meeting
Protest Song Observatory (OCP) is an organization resulting from the partnership between the Municipality of Grândola, a promoter, the José Afonso Association, the Musical Society Fraternidade Operária Grandolense, and the institutes of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Center for Studies in Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM),... Read More
Call for papers: 5th International Contemporary Piano Conference
The V Encontro Internacional de Piano Contemporâneo (5th International Contemporary Piano Conference) online edition will be held by the Music Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto – University of São Paulo (USP-Brazil) in partnership with the Graduate Program in Music at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG-Brazil), the... Read More
Call for papers: Music between Italy and Brazil in the long 19th century: musicians and repertoires / musicians and musical life
This Congress aims to be a space for us to gather the most recent Italian and Brazilian research on the subject and face together the challenge of filling gaps that still exist in the history of musical relations between Italy and Brazil in the long 19th century, so that all this information remains more accessible... Read More
Cecília Valentim – III Social Aesthetics Colloquium and Museum
The Social Aesthetics Group (CNPq / USP) emerged in 2016 from the convergence of interests in the arts, especially in situations bordering the artistic field. The ideas of “artists of the social” and “arts in the social” involve the object of studies and lead to the proposition of a “social aesthetic”, following the guidelines of... Read More
Call for papers international conference III NEMI Meeting – 9th MUSPRES
The international conference III NEMI Meeting and 9th MUSPRES “Facing the musical premiere in the press: promotion, dissemination, reception and criticism”, jointly organized by the Research Cluster of Music in the Press (CESEM / NOVA FCSH) and the Grupo de Trabajo Música y Prensa (Sociedad Española de Musicologia), will take place on May 27-28, 2021,... Read More
Project with CESEM researchers WON an AWARD in the Young Audience Music Awards (YAMawards) 2020
The Theatrical Music Company was nominated for the Young Audience Music Awards (YAMawards) 2020 won an award in the categorie of Best Participatory Project with the Murmuratorium artistic creation. The YAMawards aim to identify and support productions from around the world that inspire and involve young people and distinguish creativity and innovation from musical productions... Read More
XSOUND software patent registration by CESEM researcher Jonas Runa
XSOUND – software registered with legal deposit with ASSOFT (Portuguese Software Association) Author: João Manuel Marques Carrilho (Jonas Runa) Description: A MoCap system (motion-capture) is the process of digitally recording the movement of objects or people. In this context, the XSENS system presents itself as one of the most advanced tools in MoCap 3D, including... Read More
CESEM’s Researchers in a round table in the XIII Encounters of Historical Musicology: Paula Gomes-Ribeiro, André Malhado and Heloísa Valente
Paula Gomes-Ribeiro, André Malhado and Heloísa Valente formed the round table on Musicology and Cyberculture, which closed the XIII Encounters of Historical Musicology, promoted by the Cultural Center Pro-Music of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, this year under the theme “Musicology in times of crisis: retrospectives and perspectives ”. The event took place... Read More
Cultural Confluences in the Music of Alfonso X
Project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (POCTI / EAT / 38623/2001), 2005-2008. TEAM: Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Rui Araújo. INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIP: Center for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, Oxford University. Project assumptions The collection of 419 Cantigas de Santa Maria composed in the court of Alfonso X de Leão and... Read More