The clefs in the practice of religious music in São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the 18th and 19th centuries

Authors

  • Paulo Castagna São Paulo State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2001.57763

Keywords:

Brazil, religious music, musical manuscripts, 18th and 19th centuries, high clefs

Abstract

Three types of clefs were employed in the religious music preserved in Brazilian 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts: high, low, and modern, the second type being the predominant. High clefs were common before the second half of the 18th century and were maintained in later copies of these works. First described by Thomas Morley in A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597), the high clefs stand in contrast to the low and modern types. High clefs represent a system of transposition specific to the vocal music of the Renaissance and the stile antico, and are relevant to both edition and musical interpretation.

Author Biography

  • Paulo Castagna , São Paulo State University

    After graduating from the Institute of Biosciences at the University of São Paulo (1982), he earned a degree (1987) and a master's dissertation (1992) from the School of Communications and Arts at USP and defended his doctoral thesis (2000) at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at the same university (this article corresponds, despite some modifications, to two sections of this thesis). He received scholarships from CNPq (1985), FUNARTE (1988-1989), FAPESP (1986-1987 and 1989-1991), and a VITAE grant for the period from May 2001 to April 2002, producing works in historical musicology, courses, lectures, radio and television programs, and coordinating musicological research for CD recordings. He has been a professor and researcher at the Institute of Arts of UNESP since 1994, having coordinated the Music Section's Organization and Cataloging Team at the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia of São Paulo (1987-1999). He coordinates the reorganization project of the Music Museum of Mariana (MG), sponsored by PETROBRÁS. He has participated in musicology meetings in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, having coordinated the Brazilian section of the I er Symposium Mondial des Chemins du Baroque at the Convent of Saint-Ulrich (Sarrebourg, France, June 8-12, 2000), the Meeting of Musicians and Musicologists at the Itaú Cultural Institute (São Paulo, July 11-13, 2000), the IV Historical Musicology Meeting at the Pró-Música Cultural Center (Juiz de Fora, July 21-23, 2000), and, with Elisabeth Seraphim Prosser and Lutero Rodrigues, the five editions of the Latin American Musicology Symposium of the Curitiba Cultural Foundation (Curitiba, 1997-2001), also working with Víctor Rondón in organizing the IV Musicologists' Meeting of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia, 2002).

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2001-01-01

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No. 03 (2001): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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“The Clefs in the Practice of Religious Music in São Paulo and Minas Gerais in the 18th and 19th Centuries”. 2001. Per Musi, no. 03 (January): 27-42. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2001.57763.