Museu da Música de Mariana

Description

The main function of the Museum of Music of the Archdiocese of Mariana is to receive, preserve, and offer to the research manuscripts and Brazilian musical prints of the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, possessing 12 cataloged musical collections, being available online the catalog of the first three: Collection Don Oscar de Oliveira (CDO), Collection of Seminary of Mariana (ASM) and Archive Lavínia Cerqueira de Albuquerque (ALC). The Museum of Music also has a permanent exhibition with musical manuscripts and ancient liturgical books, musical instruments, and photographs, free of charge open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday. The Museum of Music was created by the third Archbishop of Mariana (between 1960 and 1988), Archbishop Oscar de Oliveira (Entre-Rios de Minas, 09/01/1912-25 / 02/1997), with the collaboration of several archivists and researchers , such as Vicente Ângelo das Mercês, Aníbal Pedro Walter, Father José de Almeida Penalva, Maria Ercely Coutinho and Maria da Conceição Rezende, whose performance allowed the legal foundation of the Museum of Music in 1973. The oldest news about the collection that gave rise to the Museum of Music is the report "Visit to the wonderful realm of ancient Mariananese music", published by Wagner Ribeiro in the newspaper O Arquidiocesano in 1966 and the first scientific publication on its collection is the "Report on the collection of sacred music of the century. XVIII and XIX found in Barão de Cocais (Minas Gerais) of the Ecclesiastical Archives of Mariana ", by Jose de Almeida Penalva, published in The Archdiocesan (1972) and later in Cadernos do Studium Theologicum of Curitiba (1973). The Music Museum was one of the earliest historical and musical collections in Brazil as a reflection of the actions and discussions unleashed in the country by the musicologist Francisco Curt Lange (1913-1997), who had gathered musical sources from the XVIII to XX centuries in several Brazilian cities (mainly Minas Gerais), taking them to his residence in Montevideo (Uruguay), until his transfer to the Inconfidência Museum (Ouro Preto - MG) in 1983. The proposal of the Archbishop of Mariana, however, was quite transformative at that time and in that context. It is true that Curt Lange's collecting action had generated the desire to build similar collections in the country, which in fact began to occur from the 1960s. For some of these collections, however, Curt Lange's model was followed in full, which resulted in new personal collections owned by a small number of researchers. It was in this aspect that the action of Don Oscar was differentiated: the first collection of historical-musical sources, intentionally formed in Minas Gerais to serve the public interest, was precisely the Museum of Music of Mariana, officially open to the interested public during the First Meeting National Music Research Institute (Mariana, July 1-4, 1984), the first Brazilian periodical event specifically aimed at the meeting of specialists who were dedicated to the study of the country's musical past. This history has made the Music Museum also actively participate in the creation of Brazilian scientific events in the field of historical musicology, having promoted the First National Meeting of Music Research of 1984, when only 28 events of the music area had been performed in the country since 1937. The First National Encounter of Music Research was preceded in its theme only by the First International Symposium "Sacred Music and Brazilian Culture" (São Paulo, 1981), which was the event that stimulated the periodical meetings of historical musicology in the years participating in the accomplishment of a total of 170 events in the music area until the end of the 20th century and 30 specific periodic events in the field of historical musicology in the same period. The organizers of this meeting (Maria da Conceição de Rezende Fonseca and Sandra Loureiro de Freitas Reis) also directed the II National Meeting of Music Research (São João Del-Rei, 1985) and the III National Meeting of Music Research ( Ouro Preto, 1987), events that had a decisive impact on the creation of the First Brazilian Congress of Musicology (São Paulo, 1987) and the First National Meeting of ANPPOM (Salvador, 1988). In 2003, the Mariana Music Museum pioneered the First Brazilian Colloquium on Archival and Musical Edition (publishing its Annals in 2004), the first of its kind in Latin America. Open to consultation and continuously receiving researchers in the last 30 years, the Music Museum now enters the digital age, promoting the diffusion of its collection with musicologists and other students and professionals, mainly in the areas of music and history, with the project Digitalization and Online Provision of the Collection Oscar de Oliveira, funded by COMPAT - Municipal Council of Cultural Heritage, Mariana City Hall, whose objective is the complete online availability of the approximately 40,000 images of this collection, to be completed in 2015. Interested in cultural mediation and social service, in addition to its musicological and archival function, the Music Museum has maintained several actions to support musicians and musical groups in the region in recent years, through training, courses, festivals and events. Since Easter 2014, the Music Museum has started a daily information service on Facebook, with the function of making the musicological knowledge interesting and attractive to the general public, not only to the specialists and the academic environment, to stimulate the multiplication of this type of action, the development of a broader social function for historical-musicological knowledge and for institutions similar to the Music Museum, in addition to their greater interaction with the communities they serve. For access to the Museum of Music's catalog, click directly at http://www.mmmariana.com.br/site/pesquisabasica.asp and, for access to the Dom Oscar de Oliveira Collection Inventory in pdf, click on https: // archive.org/details/InventarioDaColecaoDomOscarDeOliveira2007/. #MuseumMarianaMusic https://twitter.com/MuseumMusicaMna