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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. Instituto de Artes (IA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Paulo Castagna holds a Licentiate degree (1981) and a Bachelor's degree (1982) in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo, a Licentiate degree in Arts Education with a concentration in Music from the University of São Paulo (1987), a Masters degree in Arts from the University of São Paulo (1992), a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2000), and a Livre-Docência (Habilitation) in the History of Music in Brazil from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in 2022. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Jaén, Spain (2013), and is currently engaged in a postdoctoral project at the University of São Paulo (20232026). He has been a professor and researcher at São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) since 1994. His expertise is in musicology, with a focus on research, publication, and teaching in the following areas: musicology, music history, Brazils musical heritage, sacred music, research and management of historical music collections, and thematic cataloging. His work is mainly dedicated to Brazilian historical music, especially musical activities in Brazil from the 16th century to the early 20th century, with emphasis on sacred music in the state of Minas Gerais during the 18th and 19th centuries. His research prioritizes editorial and archival work, historical and liturgical studies, and the organization of texts, documents, score collections, and related information. He has contributed as a guest author to the launch of six journals in the field of Arts: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia (São Paulo, 1995), Brasiliana (Rio de Janeiro, 1999), Revista do Conservatório de Música da UFPel (Pelotas, 2008), Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Nova Série (Lisbon, 2014), Arteriais (Belém, 2015), and the Revista Digital de Música Sacra Brasileira (São Paulo, 2018). He has held research fellowships from FUNARTE, CNPq, FAPESP, and the VITAE Foundation. He is the leader of the NOMOS Musicology Research Group of the UNESP Institute of Arts (a CNPq research group) and coordinates the Laboratory for Conservation, Archiving, and Music Editing at UNESP. He has also been actively involved in training researchers (undergraduate, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels) and organizing academic events since 1991. He served as general coordinator of the 24th ANPPOM Congress (2014), scientific committee coordinator for the 30th (2020) and 31st (2021) ANPPOM Congresses, and has been a coordinator of Working and Thematic Groups (GTs and STs) at ANPPOM since 2016. He also coordinated the Historical Musicology Meetings in Juiz de Fora (20002008) and was one of the founders and coordinators of the Latin American Musicology Symposia (19972000). He was the tutor of the UNESP PET/Music program (20002004) and has served on several university committees at both the Rectorate and the Institute of Arts at UNESP. He has been a CNPq research fellow since 2007 and is currently developing the project Descriptions and Studies of Music in Indigenous Communities in Brazil, Produced in the 18th and 19th Centuries for the 20252029 period. He received a FAPESP Regular Grant for the project Music in the City of São Paulo (18271853) (20202021). From 2001 to 2020, he was part of the team at the Music Museum of Mariana (Minas Gerais), where he coordinated the Acervo da Música Brasileira project (20012003) and the Digitization of the Dom Oscar de Oliveira Collection project (20142017). Since 2013, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of F-CEREM (José Maria Neves Center for Musicological Reference Foundation, São João del-Rei). He coordinated the Project for the Treatment (organization, coding, and inventory) of the music collection of the São Paulo Conservatory of Drama and Music (19062006), funded by a FAPESP Regular Grant for the 20232025 period. He also coordinates the Laboratory for Conservation, Archiving, and Music Editing at the UNESP Institute of Arts. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project aims to identify the majority of chapel masters and diocesan organists who were active in the Provinces and later States of São Paulo and Paraná (Brazil) between 1822 and 1930. Its objectives include examining their professional trajectories and musical output, identifying the parish churches or cathedrals in which they served, understanding the structure and particularities …
This project has the following specific objectives: 1) the emergency organization of the Group and Document levels of the already cleaned and stored section of the musicographic collection (Section A) of the Dramatic and Musical Conservatory of São Paulo (accumulated since its foundation in 1906, declared as public utility in 2006, and incorporated into the estate of the São Paulo Municip…
The main objectives of this project are to obtain and to organize information about the musical activity in the city of São Paulo between 1827-1853, and to understand its meanings, through a systematic examination, page by page, of the complete content of four categories of documents issued during this period: a) meeting minutes and general records of the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo, p…
O XXIV Congresso da Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Música (ANPPOM) será realizado em São Paulo, entre 25 e 29 de agosto 2014, sob a organização do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música do Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Os Congressos da ANPPOM constituem o principal fórum para a discussão da produção científica em música no Brasil, congregan…
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Este Plano de Atividades é destinado à edição de composições musicais sacras de João Batista de Oliveira (1808-1876) e João Gomes de Araújo (1846-1943), mestres de capela da Matriz de Pindamonhangaba, e de Manoel Valentim dos Passos (1868-1905), organista da Catedral de São Paulo. Para isto serão localizadas fontes musicográficas manuscritas de suas obras em acervos musicais históricos já…
Este Plano de Atividades é destinado à pesquisa dos mestres de capela e organistas diocesanos da Província e Estado de São Paulo, atuantes entre 1822 e 1930, referidos em documentos oficiais paulistas transcritos em seis publicações seriadas, a saber: 1) Atas da Câmara Municipal/da Cidade de S. Paulo. São Paulo; 2) Registro Geral da Câmara Municipal de São Paulo. São Paulo; 3) Documentos …
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O trabalho principal corresponde à análise presencial dos documentos físicos da subseção de documentos em grandes formatos (Figura 4 do Projeto de Pesquisa) da seção processada (Seção A) da coleção musicográfica do Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo (CDMSP), incorporado ao Centro de Documentação e Memória do Complexo Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, com a descrição de elementos…
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