Porto, Pedro do

Other names

Pero/Pedro del Puerto, Pedro de Sosa/Sousa

Dates

doc. 1489-1524

Notes

Archival evidence disclosed by Villanueva Serrano (2011) demonstrate that Pedro do Porto was not the same individual as Pedro de Escobar. The hypothesis of Porto and Escobar being one and the same person was put forward by Stevenson and was first disputed by Ruiz Jiménez (2007).

Bibliography

Porto, Hugo Filipe Teles, “Os cantores na administração nos reinados de D. Manuel I e de D. João III” (unpublished Master thesis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2014)

Ruiz Jiménez, Juan, La librería de canto de órgano: Creación y pervivencia del repertorio del Renacimiento en la actividad musical de la Catedral de Sevilla (Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura, 2007), pp. 84-88.

Stevenson, Robert, “Pedro de Escobar: Earliest Portuguese Composer in New World Colonial Music”, Inter-American Music Review, 11/1 (1990), 3-24

Stevenson, Robert, Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960), pp. 167-69.

Villanueva Serrano, Francesc, “La identificación de Pedro de Escobar con Pedro do Porto: una revisión definitiva a la luz de nuevos datos”, Revista de Musicología, 34/1 (2011), 37-58

External references

BHP

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Works in this database

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