Vortex Music Journal

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Revista Vórtex (ISSN 2317-9937 - Qualis A1) is an online, open-access journal dedicated to music and published in partnership with the Graduate Program in Music (PPGMUS) of the State University of Paraná (UNESPAR), Brazil. Revista Vórtex published its first issue in 2013, and since then has consolidated its editorial policy of excellence, being indexed internationally, with stratum A1 in the Qualis Capes evaluation.

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Current Issue

Vol. 14 (2026): Revista Vórtex

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Published: 2026-02-20

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Creating from the Body: Gendered Agency in Contemporary Music Performance

Iracema De Andrade Almeida

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11231

Original Article

Post-Colonial Disputes in Kriolu Rap: lusophony’s erasures in a communicational perspective.

Mário A. O. M. Rolim, Thiago Soares, Guilherme Souto

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11252
Material Culture on the Caminho das Tropas: Musical Artifacts in the Farms and Town of Castro

Matheus Theodorovitz Prust

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11365
The Dissonant and the Noise: otherness and popular music in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s.

Allan de Paula Oliveira

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11135
Notes on the historical factors that led composition become distanced from music education

Eduardo Wanderley Brasil, Fernando Gabriel Batista Lima, Fábio Silva Ventura, Caroline Caregnato

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11372
A Compositional Application of the Intertextual Compass and the Strange Infinite Return

Gabriel Mesquita

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11210
Compositional Planning of Trivium for Helder Alto Recorder

Liduino José Pitombeira de Oliveira

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11516
Performing the Immersive: Electroacoustic Music at the Threshold of Technology

César Rennó-Costa, Alyson Souza, Stefane Orichuela, João Anisio da Nobrega, Leonardo Pereira, Jonatas Manzolli, Cleber Campos

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11748
Tradition, Innovation and Sustanability in Classical Guitar Construction

Ricardo Barceló Ricardo Barceló

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11262
Layers of musical interaction: an analysis of Anders Lind's installation Lines

Cristiane dos Guimarães Alvim Nunes, Marco Antonio Pasqualini de Andrade, Daniel Luís Barreiro

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11478
Instrumental Substitution and Repertoire Dissemination: a report on Directionlessness (2020/2022), by Luís Bittencourt

Fernando Martins de Castro Chaib, Luis Alberto Teixeira Bittencourt

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11015
Second stage of Colombian electroacoustic music: dissemination and consolidation (1980–1999)

Juan Diego Martinez Alvarez, Angelica Maria Rincon

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11168
Pan-American Sounds: Carleton Sprague Smith’s Role in Camargo Guarnieri’s Career and Music

Pyero Talone

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11058
Rogério Duprat’s Film Music Manuscripts for Noite vazia and the Synthesizer at the Vera Cruz Studios

Itamar Vidal, Danilo Rossetti

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11000
Guitar Articulation: A Pedagogical Proposal for the Method of Henrique Pinto

Felipe Afonso, Fernando Aguera

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11115
Piano Repertoire for the Left Hand: A Performative Study of Portuguese Works

Andre Roque Cardoso, Helena Marinho

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.10853
A Brief Primer to Sergei Taneyev’s Treatise “Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style”

Marcus Alessi Bittencourt, Lilian Cristyelen Martins

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11205
The dialogue between singing and piano: a textural analysis of five songs by Camargo Guarnieri

Polyane Schneider Hochheim, Ana Telles

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11049
The Waldstein Gesture and the Tetradic Space

Carlos Almada

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11073
A Musicology of Iron and Leather: Musithinking Foundations in Ketu’s Candomblé Toque

Ferran Tamarit

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.10939
Poetry and Music Relationship in Let my Love be Heard by Jake Runestad

Lucas Gabriel Almeida Bispo, Luciano de Freitas Camargo

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11041

Dossier “Morton Feldman – A Silent Revolution Over 100 Years”

Morton Feldman @100

Ming Tsao

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2026.14.11610

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