Redução para piano: três especificidades

Este projeto de investigação foca a análise das diversas problemáticas no domínio da redução para piano suscitadas por linguagens e por obras emblemáticas do repertório musical contemporâneo. O estudo teve como principal objetivo compreender realizar uma redução para piano, tendo como base os estudos que se debruçam sobre questões de orquestração, transcrição, acompanhamento, bem como inúmeros exemplos de reduções existentes. São realizados estudos sobre as diferenças entre redução e transcrição para piano, sobre os critérios de escolha de material musical, sobre a reorquestração da conteúdo nas reduções, sobre a problemática de execução das reduções ao piano, sobre questões de leitura à primeira vista e, finalmente, sobre aspetos de apresentação. O conteúdo de investigação é dividido de acordo com três especificidades das reduções para piano. Como exemplo de cada uma delas foram realizadas novas reduções das seguintes obras: Concerto da Camera col Violoncello Obbligato de Lopes-Graça; Pli selon pli de Boulez e ópera Lady Sarashina de Eötvös. A génese destas obras e os procedimentos necessários à sua redução foram também objeto de estudo nesta dissertação. Todas as reduções foram apresentadas publicamente e preparadas para edição. O estudo aqui realizado pretende contribuir para a melhoria do conhecimento sobre as reduções para piano, procurando definir ou ajudar à compreensão das soluções viáveis pianisticamente e facilmente aplicáveis na prática. This research project focuses on the analysis of various problems in the field of piano reduction that are caused by languages and emblematic works of contemporary repertoire. This work aims to understand how to make a piano reduction and is based on studies that address various issues in orchestration, transcription, accompaniment and numerous examples of existing piano reductions. Studies were made on the difference between piano reduction and transcription, on the selection criteria of musical material, on re-orchestration of content in piano reduction, and on issues related with performance of reduction at the piano, sight-reading and aspects of score presentation. The content of this research is divided into three specifications of piano reductions. For each section an example was done of each of these works: Lopes-Graça´s Concerto da Camera col Violoncello Obbligato; Boulez´s Pli selon pli and Eötvös´s opera Lady Sarashina. The genesis of these works and their related process of reduction was also studied in this dissertation. All reductions were prepared for edition and presentation to the public. This study aims to contribute to the knowledge on piano reduction, seeking for viable pianistic solutions which can be easily applied in practice.

A segunda vida da Praia dos Espanhóis: dançarinos, pescadores e turistas no sul de Portugal

Abstract: In this text, we deal with proccesses of appropriation of space in the Dam of Póvoa (Portugal) using a dwelling perspective (Ingold 2009) over the territory. The reconversion of innactive spaces in rural areas into leisure-related ones in a quite common practice in contemporary times.The Spaniards beach is one of the local names given by locals to the Dam of Póvoa (Castelo de Vide), in northern Alentejo (Portugal). In the collective memory of the residents, the Dam (built in the 1920’s) is remembered for the many flowers surrounding the area. This Garden-style aesthetics has outlived the initial function of the Dam (to produce electric power). From the 1960’s to the 1980’s, it was also a popular leisure space for Spanish and Portuguese people. It is not a beach, but being inland, it was the closest thing to a beach the residents had. The centrality of this leisure space in the area only decayed after the construction of swimming pools in the nearby towns. Early in the begginning of 21st century a fire destroyed part of the natural floral landscape of the dam. Abandoned for some years, the place has still been appropriated by leisured people in day-trips (for sight-seeing, pic-nics), fishing competitions, caravan soujorns, and, since 2013, in a music and dance festival named Andanças (www.andancas.net). The research that underlies this paper was carried out between 2013 and 2016 by a team of anthropologists. An ethnography of the Dam and its uses, and of the festival and its participants was carried out. In our working-paper we higlight the main research findings achieved. Key-words: Leisure; Landscape; Tourism; Music; Space; Portugal.