Departing from evidences of the use of accompanied plainchant in the musical practice of Brazilian cathedrals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this study discusses preliminarily the use of documents belonging to the Cabido Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to support the realization of this type of repertoire, exemplified in Hymn to St. John the Baptist by Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia. It also encourages future studies on this subject and, especially, the performance of this music. Indirectly, it intends to give subsidies for new forms of use of the organ, re-inserting this liturgical repertoire in the present cultural and musical practices, stimulating the use of this instrument in the Brazilian historical circuits in which some exemplars remain.
Plainchant; organ; sacred music; performance practice; José Maurício Nunes Garcia; Brazilian historical musicology
