Patrimonialização da Paisagem Sonora em Évora (1540 - 1910)

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Acronym | PASEV
Project title | Patrimonialização da Paisagem Sonora em Évora (1540 - 1910)
Project Code | ALT20-03-0145-FEDER-028584
Main objective |

Region of intervention |

Beneficiary entity |
  • Universidade de Évora(líder)
  • NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT(parceiro)
  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas(parceiro)

Approval date | 18-07-2018
Start date | 06-02-2019
Date of the conclusion | 05-02-2022
Date of extension | 05-02-2023

Total eligible cost | 239697.67 €
European Union financial support | FEDER - 154907.87 €
National/regional public financial support | República Portuguesa - 84789.80 €
Apoio financeiro atribuído à Universidade de Évora | 182244.55 €

Summary

This project intends to open and explore new perspectives on the cultural manifestations in the city of Évora and their term, through the study and analysis of the diverse musical activity during the chronological period between 1540 and 1910; it pretends to contribute to an effective patrimonialisation of Évora?s soundscape, which is very rich. Évora was one of the most important Portuguese musical centers, with an activity that was, until the end of the Ancien Regime, dominated by more than twenty religious institutions ? secular and monastic-conventual ? inside and outside walls. A central core, around the Giraldo Square, which included the Cathedral, with the Chapel and the Choir Boys College, involving also the collegial church of Santo Antão and S. Tiago Church, and even five convents, alongside another institutions such as the Espírito Santo Jesuit College. Outside walls we can find the monastery of São Bento de Cástris, Cartuxa, and Santo António da Piedade, among others. Music in these institutions was a constant during the day, constituting an interesting effect that refers to the disembodied voices through sounds spreading through the streets (also such as bells). In this setting, flourished a group of polyphonic composers of superlative quality during the 16h and 17th centuries. A certain artistic-cultural cosmopolitanism, confirmed by the circulation of foreign musicians, has also been verified in Évora, a city of manifest political and religious importance. In the 19th century, given the historical circumstances associated to the victory of Liberalism, local corporations such as the Eborense Circle (1837) or the Civilizing Society União Eborense (1839) emerged. The notion of soundscapes that has been gaining relevance in the international musicology allows the understanding of the musical reality based on a wide-ranging contextual perspective, contrary to the approach focused only on one composer, or some other restrict aspect. It allows also to rebuild contexts, circuits and transits, and to map the presence of both music and musicians. A further aim of the project is the elaboration of a digital platform that gathers the information in several formats and allows the creation of thematic roadmaps, so that the user can travel through the city following a certain theme, such as the church organs, or religious historical circuits, like for example the procession of Senhor Jesus dos Passos. Formulário Portugal 2020 Página 50 de 107 501201920 :: UNIVERSIDADE DE ÉVORA This integrative project aims to contribute to a broad comprehension of the city as cultural space, exploiting a sensorial living of both the urban space and the patrimony. The project answers to relevant societal challenges to the cities of the interior regions, since it connects ? in the patrimonial valorization frame ? the consolidated investigation lines from the university with cultural tourism, lines that constitute themselves as spheres of major importance to the city of Évora in the 21st century.


Goals, activities and expected/achieved results

Goals

The PASEV Project program comprises a extensive plan of research in terms of chronology focusing on the period from 1540 - creation of Évora's Archbishopric - to 1910 the begining of Republic in Portugal. To understand this complex reality only a research group with different specialists (music, history, musicology, organology, pedagogy and education, as well as software engineers) can assure a deep historical analyses of sources, and its aplications in the present society of information and the transference of knowledge to a local/global community. The PASEV Project intends to understand the importance of musical practices in the life of the city of Évora according to the following research plan: A) Musical manifestations: the presence of music in the city 1) Quotidian - Liturgical Year 2) Feasts/Exceptional events B) Different manifestations of following characters: 1) Civilian: protocol (embassies, visits/royal entries, marriages, births, deaths of kings or princes); local/municipal (feasts, fairs); popular (pilgrimages, processions) 2) Religious: catastrophes, visitations, nominations. The Inquisition question. 3) Mixed (processions, feasts) C) Places: 1) Associated with the Court: (Paço Real, Estaus, Conde de Basto, Paço de São Francisco) 2) Religious Spaces: Sé Catedral (cathedral), convents, churches 3) Public spaces: theatres, squares, coffee shops, promenade, bullfight arena. 4) Teaching places in sacred institutions (cloister and convents) and after Liberalism (Academia de Música Eborense, colleges and other private schools). 5) Comercial spaces linked to music (warehouses, auctions, musical printing and edition, sales and rental of musical instruments). D) People 1) Institution-linked event planners: chapel masters of cathedral, convents and churches, assistance institutions (Misericórdia) cultural associations and assemblies. 2) Vocal and instrumental groups, resident in the institutions. Hired singers and musicians. Feminine differentiation. 3) Composers 4) Circulation of repertoire and/or musicians E) Repertoires 1) Bells (e.g. cathedral, churches, convents, confraries) 2) Sacred (plainsong and polyphony), quotidian and feasts. 3) From instrumental "praxis" of the Renaissance to modern ?practica?: the role of the organ and other instruments. 4) Survey about organs 5) Sociability: from Court culture to the public sphere (dance, instrumental and/or vocal music) F) Visual testimonies on several mediums 1) Sacred iconography (painting, tiles, ornaments) 2) Secular iconography (tiles, photography, announcements, brochures, feast programs) 3) Records/registers related to instruments (organology) 

Activities

The PASEV Project program comprises 7 tasks that will be carried out over a 3 years period. They are: (1) Historical and Documental Research: Musical research and organology - 1540-1834; (2) The practice of music in monastic communities and music in religious manifestations in Évora from the 16th to the 18th centuries: actors, institutions, places, impacts in population; (3) Sociability repertoires: from the culture of Court to the public sphere; (4) Images and narratives of the soundscape 1803-1910 (From Cenáculo Lights to the Republic); (5) Domain Analysis and Geographic Context; (6) Interactive Platform for the Auditory Atlas of the City of Évora; and (7) Results integration and engagement with society (please see task descriptions and chronogram). The PASEV Project will be also an important step to understand the importance of musical practices in the life of the city of Évora, in everyday life or in special occasions, allowing to do future works in this field, extending to other cities to study and compare different realities in the same country and in the same period, or to compare with other countries, namely with Spain. These future works can be done about others cities in Portugal, to get information about musical heritage and the needs of patrimonialisation of this kind of inheritance as an important source not only for tourists or visitors, but also to the local inhabitants, namely the students. To understand this reality only a team with different specialists (music, history, musicology, organology, pedagogy and education, as well as software engineers) can assure a deep historical analyses of sources, an organology approach in diverse contexts, comparing to other contemporaneous geographic realities, thinking that only a multidisplinary research. This research will be accompanied by international specialist consulters, and intends to invest in a pedagogical dimension, sharing also its results with different publics. Our consultants are: Juan Jiménez (http://www.earlyurbansoundscape.com/earlyurbansoundscape/Curriculum_Vitae.html) and Tess Knighton: (https:// www.icrea.cat/security/files/researchers/files-maintenance/res_fullcv_71880.pdf) The team will have meetings every 3 months to present reports of materials and documents that need to be introduced in Data Base in order to the elaboration of the digital platform by the researchers of NovaLincs (tasks 5 and 6). The Project will organize every year in October an International Meeting concerning Soundscapes for presentation of results and discussion in an international forum. In 2017 we'll have our first edition (https:// evorasoundscapes.wordpress.com/). The PASEV Project will produce an anual report to present results. The web page dedicated to the Project (task7) will have an area dedicated to the historical data where it will be possible to find information about the progress and results, future research and strategies

Results

(A1) Publication of a peer review book of articles presented in the next edition Residence of São Bento de Cástris,

in the same model of 2016 publication (https://books.openedition.org/cidehus/1934). The Book will be dedicated to

the Musical Patrimony of Évora.

(D) Anual Organization of International Forum focused on Historical Soundscapes, the 1st edition is in 26-28 October

2017 (https://evorasoundscapes.wordpress.com/evento-2017-en/) this meeting will allowed a regular presentation of

papers in national scientific meetings. In 2019 the 7th edition of São Bento Cástris Residence will be dedicated of

Convent and religious soundscapes in Évora, allowing the presentation of results and papers of the Project (task2).

Promotion  and  organization  of  an  International  meeting  in  October  every  year  until  2020  concerning  historical

soundscapes in Évora the 1st edition will be on 26th-28th of October 2017 (https://evorasoundscapes.wordpress.com/

evento-2017-en/). This will allow a regular presentation of papers in national scientific meetings and the dinamization

of a scientific forum of discussion centred in Évora. Moroever in 2019 the 7th edition of São Bento Cástris Residence

will be dedicated to convent and religious soundscapes in Évora, allowing the presentation of results and papers of the

project. Publication of a peer review book of articles presented in the Residence, in the same model as the publication

of 2016 (https://books.openedition.org/cidehus/1934) is projected.

We will edit an interactive digital platform with the respective events and a compilation of audio and visual documents

that enable the visitor to experience as much as possible of each event. These events make it possible to create

thematic itineraries for the visitor to explore a series of historical musical scenarios through various virtual platforms,

such as apps for smartphones, and tablets, among others, offering an overview of enriching routes in loco in the city .

We  will  create  a  web  page  of  the  PASEV  Project  to  expose  the  results  of  our  work  and  to  create  in  the  site  an

educational area dedicated to the musical heritage of the city of Évora, to explore with students of different levels of

scholarship, giving priority to educational resources providing the exploitation of places (churches, squares, toponymic

testimonies), documents (historical and musical ones), instruments (organs), related to the practice of music in the

city .  Some  of  these  materials  will  be  developed  for  children  and  will  be  organized  under  the  theme:  from  the  scriptorium

of monasteries into your computer .

The  project  researchers  of  Évora  University  will  promote  workshops  on  different  themes  and  dedicated  to  general

public. The subject of these workshops will be:

- The role of the sacred music in the modern period in Évora;

- The materials used in the production of musical manuscripts and how to use these materials in a history classroom

(basic and secondary education);

-  Experimentation  with  different  stylistic  and  sonorous  solutions  involving  singers  and  instrumentalists,  recording  of

selected pieces.

We  will  develop  interaction  with  musicians  for  production  and  participation  in  concerts  concerning  the  repertoire

researched in the scope of this project.

We  expect  not  only  to  establish  a  cooperation  with  the  tourism  institutions  of  the  city  for  a  correct  diffusion  of  the

konwledge integrated in the digital platforms, but also to organize a program of guided tours for the inhabitants of

Évora, students of the University of Évora, portuguese cultural tourists as well as international tourists.