CESEM » Research Projects

Ongoing projects

01/02/2022 - 31/12/2026

Funded doctoral project

01/09/2023 - 31/08/2029

Chant Culture in Female Dominican Convents with a Focus on Portugal: Repertoire, Sources, and Practical Performance

Individual

01/11/2021 - 01/03/2030

Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission

Collaborative

29/09/2018 - 31/12/2030

DiRE-SoNo: “Discursos de (R)Evolução do Som no Espaço

Individual

02/09/2020 - 31/08/2026

Dissemination of the Romano-Frankish Plainchant inside the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages: Assimilation of an International Tradition or Creation of Portuguese Musical Specificities?

Individual

01/09/2022 - 01/09/2028

Homo Cantans: Opera in the Expanded Field

Individual

01/01/2025 - 30/06/2026

Investment C05-i13 – Scientific Research Units

01/01/2025 - 30/06/2026

Investment C05-i13 – Scientific Research Units

01/01/2026 - 01/06/2027

Miniaturized Opera: The Social Experience of Intersubjectivity in Opera Streaming

Individual

01/04/2023 - 31/03/2029

Music theatre preservation: a bridge between musicology and archival science

Individual

01/10/2023 - 01/10/2027

Musical instruments and collecting between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century: the Portuguese case

Funded doctoral project

01/01/2019 - 31/12/2028

Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles: collective heritage preservation

Collaborative

02/09/2024 - 30/08/2030

Portuguese Music Identity: Patterns of the Keyboard Repertoire (1750-1834)

Individual

02/06/2025 - 31/05/2028

PreservArt — Multidimensional Approach to Preservation of Historical Audio Recordings: A Study of Chemical and Microbiological Degradation Mechanisms

Collaborative

29/12/2023 - 29/12/2027

Representations of Soundscapes in the discographic works of Egberto Gismonti, from 1969 to 1989

Funded doctoral project

02/06/2025 - 31/05/2028

RESONANCE: Epistemologies of Documenting Forms of Affection and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969–1979)

Collaborative

01/01/2026 - 31/12/2028

Scoring “fact” as fiction: music and misinformation in online media

Individual

01/10/2022 - 01/10/2026

The Brazilian Guitar Imagery

Funded doctoral project

22/09/2021 - 28/02/2027

The use of verbal metaphors in the teaching and learning of musical instruments

Funded doctoral project

15/10/2024 - 15/10/2030

Traces of performance in writing: improvisation as re-composition in instrumental music of the Iberian Peninsula 1535–1700

Individual

15/08/2024 - 14/08/2030

Your Song: Epistemological Foundations of Music Recommender Systems

Individual

Concluded projects

02/09/2024 - 02/09/2025

3DMUS – Audiovisual Recording of Musical Works in Immersive 3D Format

Collaborative

09/07/2020 - 09/06/2021

ACUSVMOTTA – Determination of the objective acoustic quality of the ESML Vianna da Motta Auditorium

Collaborative

01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008

Anthology: Music in Portugal until the Renaissance

Individual

01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025

Art, Rhythm, Intonaco, Analytics – An Interdisciplinary Study of King João IV’s Musical Library at Vila Viçosa

Collaborative

01/01/2023 - 01/12/2025

Artistic Beginnings in Co-Creation

Collaborative

01/09/2011 - 30/06/2012

Artistic Creation for Infancy: from the observation of its impact to the construction of new scientific paradigms in early infancy

Collaborative

06/09/2021 - 06/09/2022

AURA3D – 3D Auralization

Collaborative

01/03/2023 - 31/08/2024

AVEMUS: concertante-style music in the former Royal Monastery of São Bento da Avé-Maria in Porto

Collaborative

02/09/2024 - 30/09/2025

AVONDANO XXI

Collaborative

01/01/2020 - 31/12/2020

Bilateral Interests in Research and Development

Collaborative

01/06/2017 - 31/12/2025

Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Museum-Library of the House of Braganza

Collaborative

20/10/2017 - 20/03/2019

CCRE-MPC: Creation, circulation, audio recording and edition of works of contemporary Portuguese music, from a reflective perspective

Collaborative

09/01/2020 - 31/10/2021

CTP-Lab – Improvised Counterpoint Laboratory

Collaborative

01/10/2004 - 31/07/2008

Cultural Confluences in the Music of Alfonso X

Collaborative

01/03/2005 - 31/08/2008

Digital Survey of Manuscript Musical Heritage (before 1600)

Collaborative

01/08/2024 - 31/12/2024

Documental description of the Music Collections of National Library of Portugal [M.M. and C.N.]

Collaborative

01/03/2023 - 28/02/2026

Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis

Collaborative

01/01/2019 - 02/07/2022

Enarmonia Philharmonic: Instrument teaching and ensemble music practice for blind and low-vision people

Collaborative

01/10/2018 - 30/09/2022

Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophy

Collaborative

01/01/2015 - 31/12/2018

GermInArte – Artistic Training for Social and Human Development since Childhood

Collaborative

01/01/2016 - 30/06/2019

Guilherme Cossoul’s new students

Collaborative

05/09/2022 - 30/06/2023

Habitus – Inhabited Soundscapes

Collaborative

01/01/2025 - 31/03/2025

IMCC 2.1 – Itinerant Musical Composition Classes: Blended Intensive Programs and Eramus+ Mobility

Collaborative

01/09/2019 - 31/08/2022

IMCC Erasmus+ — Itinerant musical composition classes to develop and enhance artistic skills

Collaborative

07/09/2020 - 31/12/2021

IMMERSUS – Electroacoustic Immersions

Collaborative

01/01/2001 - 31/12/2011

IRIN

Individual

01/03/2011 - 28/02/2013

Jorge Peixinho’s Chamber Music – Critical Edition

Collaborative

01/01/2022 - 30/06/2025

Magic Lantern: Study, Safeguard, Uses and Reuses in 19th Century Portugal

Collaborative

01/01/2022 - 23/09/2023

MARCMUS – Music Paper and Handwriting Studies in Portugal (18th and 19th Centuries): The Case Study of the Collection of the Count of Redondo

Collaborative

09/01/2023 - 09/01/2026

Middle, broad music: incorporating popular song into a Western art music context

Funded doctoral project

01/10/2021 - 01/10/2025

Modernisms and Nationalisms in the 20th Century: A Perspective from Luso-Brazilian Musical Relations

Funded doctoral project

01/01/2018 - 31/12/2024

Monialibus est necessaria Musica – Music in female convents of Portugal (18th/19th centuries): repertoire, practices, performers

Individual

01/02/2019 - 31/01/2025

Music in a religious context in the Portuguese Baroque and its correlations with the Ibero-American space – the particular case of brotherhoods or confraternities

Individual

23/09/2025 - 28/09/2025

Music Theatre Festival: 100 Years of Berio (1st Edition)

Collaborative

01/09/2007 - 30/08/2010

Musical Development in Infancy and Early Childhood

Collaborative

01/01/2010 - 31/05/2013

Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: The Circulation of Early Music in Europe and Overseas in Iberian and Iberian-Related Sources

Collaborative

01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025

Musical groups dedicated to contemporary repertoire in Portugal at the beginning of the 21st century: Drumming, Síntese, Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Performa Ensemble and Ensemble DME

Funded doctoral project

01/01/2023 - 31/12/2023

MUSICAR – Musical practice for blind, low vision and deaf people

Collaborative

06/09/2021 - 06/03/2023

MusicEd – Perspectives on Music Teaching and Society

Collaborative

01/01/2023 - 31/12/2024

One Thousand Birds in Coimbra

Collaborative

01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014

Opus Tutti – Artistic practices in creating social and educational roots

Collaborative

02/09/2024 - 01/09/2025

Organ Music on the Instruments to which it was conceived

Collaborative

01/02/2019 - 31/01/2025

Organ-making and organistic practice in Portugal in the 19h century: between tradition and modernity

Individual

06/02/2019 - 05/02/2023

PASEV: Patrimonialization of Évora’s Soundscape (1540-1910)

Collaborative

01/05/2019 - 31/08/2020

Portuguese Liturgical manuscripts from the Middle Ages: Dissemination and Creation of the musical repertories inside the Iberian Peninsula

Individual

01/03/2023 - 31/07/2023

Portuguese music for guitar: Pieces by Fernando C. Lapa

Individual

01/01/2019 - 31/12/2020

Renaissance Canons

Collaborative

04/09/2023 - 03/09/2024

REVERBDATA – Impulse response database of important portuguese spaces

Individual

01/08/2019 - 31/01/2021

Sanfona – Terminology of musical instruments in portuguese in Portugal and Brazil

Collaborative

01/09/2024 - 01/09/2025

Scenic-Musical Productions – Expanded Arts through Live Multimedia Tools

Collaborative

01/01/2022 - 30/12/2024

SenseSquared – Becoming through the senses: towards artistic ways of being in the world

Collaborative

01/09/2021 - 31/08/2024

Singing the Revolution: the role of songs and operas on the dissemination of communism in Mao Zedong’s China

Funded doctoral project

01/01/2023 - 31/01/2025

SingingWomb – Women’s health, well-being in pregnancy and perinatal bonding: contributions of prenatal singing

Collaborative

01/03/2021 - 31/05/2024

Texts and Voices Lost and Found. Recovering, Reconstituting, and Recreating Musical Fragments (c.1100-c.1600)

Collaborative

01/02/2021 - 20/07/2025

Texture and density in orchestral music of Penderecki, Ruzicka and Haas: contributions to a structured taxonomy

Funded doctoral project

01/06/2016 - 31/12/2019

The Anatomy of Late 15th- and Early 16th-Century Iberian Polyphonic Music: An Overall Analysis, Philology and Critical Editing of Surviving Repertories

Collaborative

01/10/2020 - 31/03/2022

The construction of teaching: the Pedagogical Residency in Arts at the Federal University of Ouro Preto

Individual

01/09/2015 - 30/08/2016

The Historical Collection of the Convent of Arouca: Recovering and Cataloguing

Collaborative

15/04/2015 - 15/04/2019

The influence of singing with text and a neutral syllable on Portuguese children’s vocal performance, song recognition, and use of singing voice

Funded doctoral project

01/09/2015 - 30/04/2019

The liturgical music in the Portuguese sources (1100-1650): networks of creation and diffusion of the repertories inside the Iberian Peninsula

Individual

01/02/2019 - 31/12/2023

The maternal voice in the kangaroo care condition: microanalysis of vocal acoustic parameters, neonatal vital parameters and of the contingent relationship of preterm dyads

Individual

01/05/2019 - 01/05/2025

The Music Library of John IV of Portugal: Reconstructing Lost Music Collections and Resurrecting Portuguese Cultural Heritage

Individual

01/01/2022 - 31/12/2023

The Musical Manuscripts from the Monastery of Belém. The Exploration of an Unknown Hieronymite Tradition

Collaborative

01/09/2021 - 31/08/2023

The Revival of Salve Regina. Cantos Marianos Medievais de Aveiro: Musical Sources, Gender Specific Context, and Performance

Individual

24/07/2018 - 31/03/2024

The sound expansion on the historical organ and performance practices of contemporary music

Funded doctoral project

01/01/2024 - 31/12/2024

Towards an Anthology

Collaborative

14/02/2017 - 31/08/2020

Virtual Museum of the Philharmonic Bands of the Autonomous Region of Madeira

Collaborative