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of song from the cantigas de amigo (the love songs in which male minstrels wrote from a female viewpoint) to the more contemporary languages; and “The Century of All Kinds of Music”, centred around the music of the 20th century. Finally, two theoretical and practical courses were held: “Encounters between Music and the Visual Arts”, developed in cooperation with the educational sector of the Modern Art Centre, aimed at educational agents and all those interested in exploring the multiple links and mutual crossovers between music and the visual arts; and the course entitled “The Vibration of Sound”, aimed at musicians, teachers and artists interested in experimenting with and understanding the impact of vibration on the human being and musical performance. The project also continued to offer a wide range of workshops, almost all of which developed activities based on the repertoire of the Commented Concerts. By moving from listening to production, many of the workshops used different artistic expressions – dance, visual arts, writing and dramatic expression – to stimulate the capacity to listen, interpret and improvise. As far as actual musical exploration is concerned, workshops were held on the work of two composers who left a profound impression on the 20th century, Stravinsky and Messiaen (marking the centenary of the birth of the latter musician), as well as on the “Tin Drums” concert – transforming objects, which are apparently useless, into genuine instruments, in order to create small compositions that the participants could take home in the form of a cd. In this same area, a musical improvisation workshop was held, based on short stories created at the school. An important novelty was the holding of the special project “The Colours of Music”, a show created by children for children, which resulted from a workshop that took place throughout the school year with the Gregorian Institute, based on the crossovers between the visual arts and music. The educational project also benefited from the holding of seven programmes of commented concerts with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, with three sessions being specially organised for school audiences and seven sessions for families, four more than in the previous year. This work continued to display a concern with designing programmes with works that had been specially composed for children and young people, such as Peter and the Wolf, by Prokofiev, and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, as well as other iconic works from the musical repertoire. Two other concert programmes were also held: one, in the Open-Air Amphitheatre, with two sessions being performed by the percussion group Drumming – Tin Drums – dedicated to traditional Latin-American music, based on the history of the steel drum, its evolution as a musical instrument and its links with erudite music; the other consisting of a staged concert, presenting the works Babar, the Elephant and Mother Goose, with four sessions, based on children’s stories that Poulenc and Ravel transcribed into the musical language. Publications and Musicology In 2008, the Music Department continued its partnerships with the two publishers, Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda (in-cm) and the Portuguese National Library (bn). With the first of these institutions, which is currently responsible for the sale, distribution and management of the Music Department’s stocks of publications, work continued on the joint publication of new volumes in the “Museological Studies” series, with two new titles: Cerimonial da Capela Real: Um Manual Litúrgico de D. Maria de Portugal (1538-1577), Princesa de Parma, by José Maria Pedrosa Cardoso (EM-31), and Músicos Interpretam Camões: Canções sobre Poemas de Camões na Primeira Metade 072. 072.073 Annual Report 2008
6th Gulbenkian Orchestra Workshop for Young Composers, Grand Auditorium, 26 January, 2008. do Século XX, by Paulo Esteireiro (EM-32). As far the partnership with the bn is concerned, work continued on the joint preparation of the facsimile edition of the Portuguese treatise Arte Mínima, by Manuel Nunes da Silva (1685, 1704, 1725), one of the most widely read theoretical treatises in the 17th century. The bn completed its work of preparing a full digital version of the treatise, while the Music Department finished its revision of the introduction and the preliminary study by Aires Manuel Rodeia Pereira, so that the book was made ready for printing. As well as its publication activities, the Music Department organised an international academic conference in the area of Musicology, in continuation of the one held in 2000, which resulted in the publication of the book A Música no Brasil Colonial (Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2001). This initiative coincided with the commemorations to mark the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in Rio de Janeiro, in 1808. Dedicated to the theme of “Portuguese-Brazilian Music at the end of the Ancien Regime: Repertoires, Practices and Representations”, the academic side of the conference was coordinated by Maria Elizabeth Lucas (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) and Rui Vieira Nery (Évora University), being held from 7 to 9 June, 2008. The initiative brought to Lisbon some of the leading international specialists in the field of historical, ethnomusicological and iconographic research related with the Brazilian musical repertoire of the colonial period. A total of 24 guest specialists took part in the conference: 14 Brazilian researchers, including full professors, PhD holders and postdoctoral researchers from the music departments of the main federal and state universities in Brazil; and 10 teachers and researchers from the main musicological teaching and research institutions in Portugal. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Music Department
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