The Study of Music Sources

Recommended Prerequisites

Sound music training. Good levels of both the Portuguese and English (mainly reading) languages.

Teaching Methods

Classes are organized to encourage the students’ active involvement in learning, fostering student teacher interaction.

Combination of theoretical presentation by the teacher with numerous practical exercises on both primary and secondary Music sources.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the semester, the student should:
• be acquainted with the main tools and methodologies within sources study, both the music and the documentary sources;
• be able, considered his research subject, of producing a rather consequent both primary and secondary sources bibliography;
• be able to produce a detailed description of a music primary source.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The sources study in Music is understood as fundamental step for a broad and solid comprehension of our musical heritage. Thus, the students should:
- be introduced to the different types of music sources and the issues that each one of them entangle;
- be introduced to the Portuguese Music historiography and its main players;
- be introduced to the main methodologies and tools for Music sources study;
- be introduced to the codicological study of a primary source;
- learn how to produce a detailed description of a Music primary source.

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Eugénio Estudante Dias Moreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Weekly tasks : 100.0%

Bibliography

Boorman, S., “Sources, MS §I. Introduction”, The New Grove, 2001, p. 791-817

Brito, M.C., “A musicologia portuguesa hoje: situação e perspectivas”, Nassarre,IX, 1993, p. 97-104

Corbin, S., “L'état des sources”, Essai sur la musique religieuse portugaise au moyen âge, Paris, 1952, p. 155-194

Feder, G., Music Philology, Monographs in Musicology 14, Pendragon Press, 2011

Kastner, M.S., “Veinte años de musicologia en Portugal”, Acta Musicologica, 1960, p. 1-11

Nery, R.V., Para a História do Barroco Musical Português, Lisboa, 1980

Nery, R.V., A Música no Ciclo da “Bibliotheca Lusitana”, Lisboa, 1984

Sampsel, L. J., Music Research. A handbook, Oxford University Press, 2009

Vasconcelos, J., Os Musicos portuguezes. Biographia - Bibliographia, 2 vols, Porto, 1870

Vieira, E., Diccionario Biographico de Musicos Portuguezes, facsímile da edição de 1900, 2 vols, Arquimedes Livros, s.d.

Viterbo, F. M. S., Subsídios para a história da música em Portugal, Coimbra, 1932.