A antífona Recordare, Virgo Mater

Évora has been an important centre of Marian cult since the Middle Ages, with the dedication of the Cathedral’s main altar to Our Lady of Assumption as a central point. It was also an important musical centre and the antiphon Recordare, Virgo Mater is one of the musical works associated with a Marian feast known as the Miracle of the Wax. One of the Cathedral chapel masters of the seventeenth century, Diogo Dias Melgaz, wrote a polychoral motet using this text the first known work to set it to music, followed by other works written in the eighteenth century with this text. The present study  Este trabalho enquadra-se no âmbito do projeto de Doutoramento financiado pela FCT Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia «Polifonia portuguesa tardia: A problemática da continuidade na obra sacra de Diogo Dias Melgaz e Pedro Vaz Rego» (FCT SFRH/BD/131505/2017) e no âmbito do projecto ALT20-03-0145FEDER-028584 (PTDC/ART-PER/28584/2017) – «PASEV: Patrimonialização da Paisagem Sonora em Évora (1540-1910)», financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT/MCTES e co-financiado pelo Fundo Europeu de desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do Compete 2020 – Programa Operacional Competividade e Internacionalização (POCI).  CESEM NOVA FCSH / Universidade de Évora Paisagens sonoras urbanas: História, Memória e Património Vanda de Sá e Antónia Fialho Conde _______________________________________________________________________________ 262 examines the works with the text Recordare, Virgo Mater and their possible liturgicalmusical contexts. Some of them point towards the offertorium of the Mass for Our Lady of Sorrows and others toward the celebration of Vespers and Litany. The association of the musical works with the liturgical feasts seems apparent and as such establishes a strong identity relation between the music produced in Évora Cathedral and the particular celebrations of the city.