The musician and humanist Damião de Góis (1502-1574)

Márcio Paes SELLES

Original title: O músico e humanista Damião de Góis (1502-1574)

Published in Music in Middle Ages and Early Modernity

Keywords: Court, Humanist, Music.

Damião de Góis, was born in Alenquer in a family of the Portuguese nobility, grew up in the court of D. Manuel I where he had access to musical learning. Later, a diplomat under King John III had contact with Franco-Flemish music, developed in the chapels of the court of Burgundy and lived with important humanists of his time as Erasmus and Bembo. His compositions as well as his musical taste in the French-Flemish style served as an argument in a complaint in the Holy Office that ended up leading to his death in 1574.

Transcendência e Imanência – dois aspectos da música na vida monástica de Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Antonio Celso RIBEIRO

Original title: Transcendence and Immanence – two aspects of music in the monastic life of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

Keywords: Immanency, Middle Ages, Monastery, Music, Transcendence.

The present work intends to analyze the role of the music in the everyday life inside the women monasteries in the Middle Ages. Exploring the dichotomies between some aspects of music in medieval thinking like it being corruptive or regenerative and belonging to the realm of musica mundane, musica humana, musica instrumentalis, or musica celestis, as stated by Boethius and complemented by Jacobus Leodiensis, the paper intends to take a glimpse on music usage at the monasteries focusing specially on Hildegard von Bingen’s Works and Philosophy.

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