Rio de Janeiro. An African Slave Vendor of Music. ¹

CURRENT RESEARCH
In the first decade of this century, the Internet has become an important tool in publicizing the Brazilian musical heritage. From 2001 to 2003, under the project Restauração e difusão de Partituras [Restoration and Diffusion of Music Scores], some of the Mauritian scores belonging to the Mariana Museum of Music, Minas Gerais were digitized, edited and recorded. Access: Oct. 7, 2011. In 2005, under the project "Disponibilização do Acervo Musical do Cabido Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro [Availability of The Music Files of Rio de Janeiro's Metropolitan Chapter], music sheets containing 55 Mauritian works, important works of Marcos Portugal and of other composers to the Royal Chapel of Rio de Janeiro were digitized and are available on the Internet. Acess: Oct. 7, 2011. The Music School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with the project "Biblioteca Digital" [Digital Library], made part of the Collection Gabriela Alves de Souza available on the Internet. Acess: Oct. 7, 2011. In 2007, the project "Disponibilização do Acervo Cleofe Person de Mattos" [Availability of Cleofe Person de Mattos's Files] made available online the collection of working papers of the musicologist. Acess: Oct 7, 2011. And finally, since 2009 the website Musica Brasilis, makes available modern editions of works and parts of many Mauritian works. Acess: Oct. 7, 2011.