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A década da invenção de Portugal na música erudita (1890-1899)

2014; Volume: 10; Linguagem: Inglês

0871-9705

Teresa Cascudo García-Villaraco,

Cultural Identity and Heritage

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.