To browse Academia. The establishment of a public opinion and the abolishment of censorship made way to the spread of the press. In consequence there were more people reading newspapers and more readers were interested in knowing about the artistic life.
Only years later do we find the launching of specialized music periodicals that last more than a few numbers: one of the first was Amphion , followed by A arte musical a decade later.
In this paper, I pretend to present some ideas about the first attempts of music criticism in Portugal by questioning who writes music criticism and how it was established. In particular I will focus at the contents and contributors of O Trovador: jornal musical, litterario e de variedades. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive.
We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. Eighteenth-Century Music is a well-established journal dedicated to all areas of eighteenth-century music research.
Its generous breadth of coverage includes, alongside articles and essays by both leading and emerging scholars, a wide range of reviews and a communications section that reports on conferences and other items of interest from around the world. This essay provides an overview of the changes occurred in Lisbon in the late s specifically in the field of church music, its compositional and performing practices.
