A década da invenção musical de Portugal (1890-1899)

Authors

  • Teresa Cascudo

Abstract

This article intends to be a contribution towards the critical understanding of the relations between nationalism and cultured musical composition in Portugal, in particular with respect to the genesis of this question in the last decade of the nineteenth century, a crucial period in the process of creation an image of a Portuguese national identity. Starting from the acceptance of the mainly political dimension of the nationalist program, an analysis is made of the strategies which were followed to integrate music in it, namely the role assumed by the discovery of musical tradition and the verification of the correspondence between «nationalization» and «modernization» in music creation, as well as the influence which these two factors had in musical composition of the period. Attention is also given to the role of music in some of the civic ceremonies organized in the country during the same period.

Author Biography

Teresa Cascudo

TERESA CASCUDO obtained her doctorate in Historical Musicology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2002) with a dissertation on A tradição como problema na obra literária e musical de Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994). Between 1995 and 2001 she worked for the Culture Department of the Câmara Municipal of Cascais, namely in the organization and cataloguing of the musical archive of Fernando Lopes­Graça. She has published articles in various specialized journals and collective works published among others by Cambridge University Press. Since 1999 she is a music critic of the newspaper Público. She teaches at the Universidad de La Rioja (Spain) in the on-line degree in the Sciences and History of Music and since 2001. She is also a researcher at the Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX (CEIS 20) of the Universidade de Coimbra.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Cascudo, T. (2014). A década da invenção musical de Portugal (1890-1899). Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 10, 181–226. Retrieved from https://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/96

Issue

Vol. 10 (2000)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)