History of Music in Portugal

Objectives

An in-depth discussion of the key concepts defining Portuguese Music in the Mannerist, Baroque and Post-Baroque periods, stressingthe historical and cultural contexts of musical practices in Portugal and their relationship with the main internationtal trends of WesternMusic of the same era:

a) Historical contexts in Portuguese musical life under the Ancien Régime;

b) Mannerist music within the crisis of values of the 16th century;

c) An autochtonous musical Baroque in the Iberian-American framework;

d) The reforms of John V and the Roman Baroque models in Portuguese music;

e) The Post-Baroque music models under Joseph I and Mary I.

General characterization

Code

722021036

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Paula Cristina Roberto Gomes Ribeiro Brandão

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Carvalho, Mário Vieira de. 2023. Património musical e diálogo intercultural. Lisboa, INCM.

Castelo-Branco, Salwa (dir.). 2010. Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX. Lisboa: INET/Círculo de Leitores.

Costa, Jorge Alexandre (org.). 2015. Olhares sobre a história da música em Portugal. Vila do Conde: Verso da História.

Hesmondhalgh, David. 2019. The cultural industries. London: Sage.

Hesmondhalgh, David et al. 2011. “Audiences, quality and the meaning of creative work”. Creative labour – media works in three cultural industries. New York: Routledge. 200-219

Hughes, Diane et al. 2016. The new music industries – disruption and discovery. London: Palgrave.

Jones, Michael. 2012. The music industries – from conception to consumption. London: Palgrave.

Menger, Pierre-Michel. 2014. The economics of creativity. Art and achievement under uncertainty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kramer, Lawrence. 2009. Why classical music still matters. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pais, José Machado, Pedro Magalhães e Miguel Lobo Antunes (coord.). 2022. Práticas culturais dos portugueses. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.

Rosas, Fernando et al. 2020. O séc. XX português. Lisboa: Tinta da China.

Tavares, Rui (dir.). 2022. Portugal, uma retrospectiva 2022-1910. Lisboa: Público/Tinta-da-China.

Sousa, Paulo Silveira, António J. Ramalho e Octávio Gameiro. 2016. Cronologias do Portugal contemporâneo, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990 -1999, 2000-2015. 4 volumes. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.

Vieira, Ana Bigotte. 2021. Uma curadoria da falta - o serviço Acarte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1984-1989. Documenta.

Teaching method

The methodology adopted for the seminar is based on active teaching and learning strategies, favouring the continuous participation of students in the construction of knowledge. The seminar will be structured around three main axes: collaborative learning, critical problematisation and practical application of the content.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment (in-class exercises, exhibitions, debates, collecting information from libraries, attending concerts, analysing documents, etc.) 40%.
Individual written work, presentation and debate in class 60% (The subject of the assignment is chosen by the student in dialogue with the teacher and can be presented according to various models, to be agreed in due course according to the chosen subject and the desired results).

Subject matter

With the aim of investigating elements of permanence and change in Portuguese musical life, from the 25th of April to the present day, this seminar focuses on the development, decentralisation and progressive consolidation of a network of cultural institutions, festivals and major events that promote musical performances of various kinds in the field of classical music. There is an expansion of audiences and technical and artistic teams that ensure large-scale musical activity, permeable to international expressions and trends, and rooted in our country's cultural policies. In this context, the importance assumed by the conception of the musical programme is highlighted, as a multidimensional narrative that requires the involvement and promotes the expansion of audiences, reflecting artistic, ideological, economic and institutional purposes.
Starting from the spatiotemporal framework indicated, this curricular unit aims to involve students in processes of analysis, debate and research on the following topics:
- Theoretical and methodological challenges in the production of history in the present and recent past
- Musical practices, policies and processes of cultural decentralisation
- The action of mediators and promoters in musical dissemination and audience formation
- Music dissemination institutions, models of musical performances and audiences
- The music programme maker as a cultural and political agent
- Music production
- Music programming and curation practices

Programs

Programs where the course is taught:

Area of specialisation in Historical Musicology