JOSÉ MIGUEL NICOLAU PINTO (EC12-7180-806A)

Curriculum Vitae

JOSÉ MIGUEL NICOLAU PINTO

José Pinto completed his master's degree in Musical Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities with a master's thesis entitled "A música e o som na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro" (Music and sound in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro). Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Musical Sciences at the same institution, supported by a scholarship from FCT (ref: 2021.04853.BD). His research focuses on film music and sound in the works of João César Monteiro, positioning the director’s "sonorous and musical" contributions within the broader context of Portuguese and European cinema in the second half of the 20th century. Pinto specializes in music and media, with a particular focus on the intersection of music and cinema.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: JOSÉ MIGUEL NICOLAU PINTO

Citation names

Pinto, Jose

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: EC12-7180-806A
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6454-7123
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&user=3XjmukIAAAAJ
Researcher Id: KJM-6210-2024
Scopus Author Id: 58472612000

Email addresses

josepinto@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

http://www.inetmd.pt/index.php/pessoas/integradosnaodoutorados/doutorandos/1993-jose-pinto (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/10 - 2024/10 Ongoing	PhD in Musicology (Doutoramento) Major in Historical Musicology NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal "A Música e o som na obra cinematográfica de João César Monteiro (Music and sound in the films directed by João César Monteiro)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024 Concluded	English Classes (C1.3) (Outros) American School of Languages, Portugal
2021 Concluded	Master's in Musicology (Mestrado) Major in Historical Musicology NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal "A música e o som na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (Music and sound in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2020 Concluded	French classes (A2.1) (Outros) NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal	17
2019 Concluded	Bachelor Degree in Music (Licenciatura) Major in Musical Sciences University of Minho, Portugal	16
2012 Concluded	English classes (B2) (Outros) Instituto Britânico de Braga, Portugal	B

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09/01 - 2018/06/30	Piano teacher	Cooperativa de Ensino artístico, Portugal

2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30	Musicalization Teacher	Escola Guitarra LAtina, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/10/01 - 2025/10/01	A música e o som na obra cinematográfica de João César Monteiro (Music and sound in the films directed by João César Monteiro) 2021.04853.BD PhD Student Fellow NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), Portugal	The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Pinto, Jose. "Reconstrução ou fabulação medieval? Um estudo de caso sobre a música no filme Silvestre de João César Monteiro (Medieval reconstruction of fabulation. A Case Study on the Music in the Film Silvestre by João César Monteiro)". In La Edad Media ibérica proyectada. El pasado medieval en la creación audiovisual en lengua portuguesa y española, edited by Alicia Miguélez; Erika Loic; Felipe Brandi. Iberoamericana - Vervuert, 2025. In press
Conference paper	Pinto, Jose. "Citação ou assombração: A música de Schubert nas Recordações da Casa (Quotation or Spectrum: Schubert's Music in Recollections of the Yellow House)". Paper presented in XXXII ANPPOM Conference (National Association for Postgraduate Research in Music), Natal - RN, 2022. Published Pinto, Jose; Medeiros, Margarida. "Wagner's Tristan and Isolde or Monteiro's João de Deus and Rosarinho: The Sexual Character of João de Deus in the Film God's Comedy Directed by João César Monteiro". Paper presented in MIC - Vis, 2022, Mediterranean Islands Conference, Vis, 2022. Published
Journal article	Pinto, Jose. "“Em vez de olhar, prefiro escutar” – modos de representação sonoros e musicais em Branca de Neve de João César Monteiro (“Instead of looking, I prefer to listen” – Sound and musical representation modes in João César Monteiro’s Snow White)". Rebeca - Brazilian Journal of Film and Audiovisual Studies (2025): Accepted Pinto, José. "“É como se tudo se passasse na terra-de-ninguém de um tempo fora do tempo”: a música em três curtas-metragens de João César Monteiro (It Is as If Everything Takes Place in the No-man's-land of a Time Outside of Time”: Music in Three Short Films by João César Monteiro)". Opus 30 (2024): 1-23. https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85213857339&origin=resultslist. Published • 10.20504/opus2024.30.23 Pinto, Jose; Margarida Medeiros. Corresponding author: Pinto, Jose. "João de Deus’s musical perversions: a case study on the music and sexuality in two films by João César Monteiro". Studies in European Cinema (2024): https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85186561560&origin=resultslist. Published • 10.1080/17411548.2024.2320493 Pinto, Jose. "A música e os amores de João de Deus: Um estudo de caso sobre as interações música – narrativa na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (The Music and passions of João de Deus: A Case Study on Music-Narrative Interactions in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro)". Portuguese Journal of Musicology 8 2 (2023): Open access • Published • 10.57885/0005.rpmns.8/2.2021 Pinto, Jose. "A música e o sagrado na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (Music and the Sacred in João César Monteiro’s God's Trilogy)". Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 9 1 (2022): 91-122. https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101185304. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v9n1.799
Thesis / Dissertation	"A música e o som na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (Music and sound in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro)". Master, NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/118014.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/01/07	The music in the films directed by João César Monteiro	Class on Aesthetics and Film Music Analysis (Bachelor's in Music) The School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) (Oporto, Portugal)
2024/12/03	Música e cinema: para uma metodologia de análise audiovisual (Music and Cinema: Towards a Methodology for Audiovisual Analysis)	Class on Theory and Method of Music Sciences (Bachelor's in Musical Sciences) Musicology Department - NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/11/07	A música não ri sozinha: Música e humor na obra cinematográfica de João César (Music does not laugh alone: Music and humor in the films directed by João César Monteiro)	XIII Meeting on Research in Music (EnIM) Conservatório Regional do Algarve Maria Campina (Faro, Portugal)
2023/10/18	As conexões sonoras e musicais entre os quatro primeiros filmes de João César Monteiro e a Nouvelle Vague (The Sound and Musical Connections Between the First Four Films of João César Monteiro and the Nouvelle Vague)	SPEHCM - Permanent Seminar in Historical and Cultural Studies in Music INET-md, NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/10/01	Reconstrução ou fabulação medieval? Um estudo de caso sobre a música e o som no filme Silvestre de João César Monteiro (Medieval Reconstruction or Fabulation? A Case Study on the Music and Sound in the Film Silvestre by João César Monteiro)	XII Meeting on Research in Music (EnIM) The National Museum of Music (Mafra, Portugal)
2023/09/15	"É como se tudo se passasse na terra-de-ninguém de um tempo fora do tempo" - a música em três curtas-metragens de João César Monteiro (“It Is as If Everything Takes Place in the No-man's-land of a Time Outside of Time”: Music in Three Short Films by João César Monteiro)	VIII CysMus Workshop, “Media practices online” CysMus - CESEM/ NOVA University (Online, Portugal)
2023/05/27	"I'm profoundly convinced that cinema, as anything else, is meant to be crossed alone": Musical and Sound Connections in Monteiro's First Four Films	Music and the Moving Image XIX NYU Steinhardt (Nova Iorque, United States)
2022/11/30	João de Deus: fantasmas e fantasmagoria no cinema de César Monteiro (João de Deus: Ghosts and Phantasmagoria in César Monteiro's Cinema)	Cinema Português: uma história de fantasmas (Portuguese Cinema: The story of Ghosts) Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradução (IELT) - NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/10	Cimento ou poesia: a música de Bach nos filmes Opération béton (1954) de Jean-Luc Godard e Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1969) de João César Monteiro (Cement or Poetry: Bach's Music in the Films Opération béton [1954] by Jean-Luc Godard and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen [1969] by João César Monteiro)	XI Meeting on Research in Music (EnIM) Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/09/15	Sexual fantasies in cinema and its relation to the soundtrack: a case study on João César Monteiro's "God's trilogy"	MIC - Vis, 2022, Mediterranean Islands Conference Universidade de Vern - Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences (Via, Croatia)
2022/06/14	A expressão sonora dos fantasmas de João de Deus: Um estudo de caso sobre o voyeurismo de João de Deus e a música de Franz Schubert no filme Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989) (The Sonic Expression of João de Deus’s Ghosts: A Case Study on João de Deus's Voyeurism and Franz Schubert’s Music in the Film Recollections of the Yellow House [1989])	X Meeting "Music, Critical Theory and Communication" (X MTCC) CESEM - FCSH - NOVA University (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/03/23	João de Deus e os seus fantasmas: A quasi-presença de Franz Schubert no filme Recordações da Casa Amarela (João de Deus and His Ghosts: The Quasi-Presence of Franz Schubert in the Film Recollections of the Yellow House)	Diálogos da Teoria: Ciclo Música no cinema The School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) (Oporto, Portugal)
2021/11/28	A música e os amores de João de Deus: um estudo de caso sobre as interações música - narrativa na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (The music and passions of João de Deus: A Case Study on Music-Narrative Interactions in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro)	International Research Meeting of Students in Music and Musicology 2021 University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2021/10/11	A música e o sagrado na Trilogia de Deus de João César Monteiro (Music and the Sacred in God's Trilogy by João César Monteiro)	X Meeting on Research in Music (EnIM) University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019	José Viana da Mota (1868-1948)\|Aspetos sobre a direção do Conservatório Nacional (José Viana da Mota [1868-1948] \| Perspectives on His Directorship of the National Conservatory)	International Research Meeting of Students in Music and Musicology University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2018	Estudo para a edição da Missa De Beata Virgine de Josquin des Prés e de três variações sobre o tema Cum Sanctu Spiritu dessa mesma missa (Study for the Edition of Missa De Beata Virgine by Josquin des Prés and Three Variations on the Cum Sancto Spiritu Theme from the Same Mass)	Jornadas da Musicologia 2018 University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)