The book is the result of an intense research and analysis of the original scores, having a list of all José Mauricio´s known works. It is a pioneer book in Brazilian musical research. We have only to regret that it has no current editions.

The book presents "incipits", with the initial measures of all mentioned works.

A comprehensive and detailed biography of JM. For this edition, all surviving original documents had been researched (baptism certification, "da genere" document). These documents record various events of the chapel´s master life, some of them obscure in the Catálogo Temático, (such as his parent´s marriage and the payment of his house´s mortgage).

The book depicts as well the society´s manners of that time, and the conflicts between brazilian and portuguese in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of 19^th century, a time that brazilian and portuguese national histories became coincident.

Originally printed in 1862, at the print office of Dr. José Mauricio Nunes Garcia Júnior, JM´s son, this works describes various events of his life, reported to the author by his son.

The author sold by the end of 19^th century the copyright of this work to Editora Garnier, that recently published a new edition, (photo) in which there are color prints of drawings and oil paintings of that time.

Besides the stories about JM, it reports the history of various places of Rio de Janeiro. It was used chiefly in the page The city of Rio de Janeiro in the second Half of 18^th century.

As a biography it was already superseded by Cleofe Person de Mattos' book, but most of the described episodes are not contradictory in both. This reveals its historical precision.

The book is a sequence of detailed historical maps, that trace the development of the town, since its foundation in 1565 up to 1965.

With the help of this book we installed the interactive maps and found the present names of some streets, based in their historical names.

Debret, a member of the 1816 French Mission to Brazil, published this work after his return to Paris, in 1834.

Debret was a fine painter, and he made the best pictorial report of brazilian history, of manners and life in Rio de Janeiro during the 15 years he lived in this town (1816-1831).

Many of the pictures that illustrate this page are from him.

We consulted a recent brazilian edition, published by Editora Itatiaia, in four volumes, in 1989.

It is a comprehensive work. There we found some interesting facts about Marcos Portugal and Sigismund Neukomm.

It has a summarized biography of José Maurício, and a complete list of his works.

This book has short biographies about all great brazilian classical composers to the present, and drawings and photographs related to José Maurício not published before.

Originally it was the work with which the author, one of the finest harpsichordists in Brazil, obtained his master degree in music. It has a facsimile edition of the original score.

We sequenced CPM 236 from it.

CPM 130.
We sequenced CPM 130 from it.

CPM 143.
We sequenced CPM 143 from it.

CPM 186.
We are sequencing CPM 186 from it.

CPMs 76 and 77.

CPM 108.

CPMs 231 and 232.

CPM 113.

Score of several motets for Holy Week: Tenuisti Manum Dexteram Meam (CPM 218-7), In Monte Oliveti (CPM 218-2), Domine Tu Mihi Lavas Pedes (CPM 198), Judas Mercator Pessimus (CPM 199), Domine Jesu, Improperium Expectavi (CPM 218-10), Popule Meus (CPM 222), Crux Fidelis/Felle Potus (CPM 205), Sepulto Domino (CPM 223).

FUNARTE

CPM 170.
We sequenced CPM 170 from it.

CPM 236.

CPM 174.

CPM 106.

It has an extensive list of works never published before: the antiphons Sub Tuum Praesidium, CPM 2, Magnificat for the Vespers of Our Lady, CPM 16, the Motet Te Christe Solum Novimus, CPM 52, two psalms based in Haydn's Creation, Laudate Dominum Omnes Gentes, CPM 78 and Laudate Pueri Dominum, CPM 79, the Te Deum for Our Lady's Ascencion Matins, CPM 91, Te Deum in D, CPM 96, the sequentia Lauda Sion Salvatorem, CPM 165, two works for Holy Week Misereres, CPM 194 and CPM 195.

The third volume is dedicated to the secular works, featuring: Zemira Ouverture, CPM 231, the theater plays Ulissea, Drama Eroico, CPM 228, and The Triumph of America, CPM 229, and the Choir for the Intermezzo, CPM 227.