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ALERT FOR SUBMISSION

Dear Authors,

Due to the high volume of submissions, we inform you that submissions for the General Topics Issue are suspended until March 1st, 2026.

Submissions for the Thematic Issue Hermeto Pascoal: 90 Years of Sounds will continue as normal until February 28th, 2026.

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Per Musi is pleased to announce the Thematic Session Hermeto Pascoal - 90 years of Sounds, in honour of the sonic and inventive legacy of this unique Brazilian music artist. Born on 22 June 1936 in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Hermeto Pascoal built a profoundly original musical career, marked by experimentation, creative freedom and a remarkable contribution to contemporary musical language. Turning 90 in 2026, he is still very active and his work is an inexhaustible source of study, inspiration and challenge for musicians and researchers. We hope to receive articles, reviews, interviews, translations and/or scores that explore multiple aspects of Hermeto Pascoal's work from perspectives such as historical musicology, musical analysis, composition, instrumentation, performance practices, extended techniques, improvisation, genres and songs, as well as case studies on specific works, arrangements or recordings - including investigations into ‘iron music’ and ‘aura music’, among other aspects of his unique production. At the same time, this call proposes approaches to Hermeto Pascoal's multiple creative modalities as a solo musician, in a group, live or in the studio, on tours, as a leader, sideman, composer, arranger and innovator of musical writing, ways of using the body, gestures, the voice, drawings, audiovisual media, etc.

Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Fausto Borém (PPGM/UFMG) and Prof. Dr. Fabiano Araújo Costa (PPGA/eMMa/UFES)

Deadline for submission: February 28, 2026

Session publication: January, 2026

Guidelines for authors: Submissions must strictly follow the Per Musi guidelines, available at the following link https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/about/submissions

Suggested reading:

Araújo Costa, F.; Borém, F. (2013). Variação progressiva de schoenberg em Hermeto Pascoal: análise e realização de duas lead sheets do calendário do som. Per Musi, (28), 70-95.  

Borém, F. and Araújo, F. (2010). Hermeto Pascoal: experiência de vida e a formação de sua linguagem harmônica. Per Musi, (22), 22-43.  

Borém, F. and Garcia, M. (2010). cannon de Hermeto Pascoal: aspectos musicais e religiosos em uma obra-prima para flauta. Per Musi, (22), 63-79.  

Borghi, R. M. S. de O. (2021). Forró com jazz: convivência e fricção de duas musicalidades em uma obra de Hermeto Pascoal, 31º  Congresso da ANPPOM. 

Cabral, T., Guigue, D. (2016). Entropia e Textura Rítmica na Sinfonia em Quadrinhos de Hermeto Pascoal, 27º Congresso da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música, B. Horizonte.   

Chouvel, J.M., Assayag, G., Cholleton, J.P. (2002). La représentation hexagonale toroïdale, application à l’analyse harmonique de la musique d’Hermeto Pascoal. Séminaire MaMux. 

Chouvel, J.-M. (2005). Représentation harmonique hexagonale toroïde, Musimédiane (Revue audiovisuelle et multimédia d'analyse musicale), 1. 

Connell A. M. (2003). Refiguring the familiar in hermeto pascoal's "som da aura". Musical Cultures of Latin America. 197-204. 

Costa-Lima Neto, L. (2000). The Experimental Music of Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo (1981-93): A Musical System in the Making. British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 9(1), 119–142.  

Costa-Lima Neto, L. (2010a). O cantor Hermeto Pascoal: os instrumentos da voz. Per Musi, 22, 44–62. 

Costa-Lima Neto, L. (2010b). O Calendário do Som e a estética sociomusical inclusiva de Hermeto Pascoal: emboladas, polifonias e fusões paradoxais. Revista USP, 82. 

Ferreira, R. da S. (2016). Improvisação et interação na Escola Jabour. Doutorado em Música (concentração Fundamentos Teóricos), Universidade Estadual de Campinas. 

Payne N. (2022). The musicality of birds: from charles darwin to Hermeto Pascoal. Jazz Education in Research and Practice, 5–19.  

Piedade, A. T. C. (2009). A teoria das tópicas e a musicalidade brasileira: reflexões sobre a retoricidade na música. El oído pensante. Buenos Aires, v.1, n. 1, 2013. 

Rosado, A. (2019).  "Analyzing Hermeto Pascoal's Calendário do Som". LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4799.  

Silva (da), L. A., Queiroz (de), R. B. (2020). "Reflexões do pós-nacionalismo musical: uma abordagem histórica e composicional sobre os flautistas Altamiro Carrilho, Egildo Vieira e Hermeto Pascoal." Wamon - Revista dos alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 5(2), 103–18. 

Tiné, P. (2018). O tempo de Hermeto Pascoal. Per Musi, (37).