Fantasia em três movimentos em forma de chôros de Heitor Villa- Lobos: análise e contextualização de seu último período

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Revisão crítica das canções para a voz e piano de Heitor Villa-Lobos: publicadas pela Editora Max Eschig

Esta revisão crítica apresenta uma análise do conjunto de canções de Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), publicado pela editora Max Eschig de Paris. As trinta canções publicadas formam um painel importante do estilo vocal e pianístico do compositor, pontuando praticamente toda sua vida criativa. O trabalho respeitou a ordem cronológica da criação das coleções de canções: de 1919 e 1946. Além das trinta canções publicadas, incluiu-se no trabalho as três canções não publicadas que fazem parte da série Canções Típicas Brasileiras. Tais obras estão depositadas nos arquivos do Museu Villa-Lobos no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Polifonias Políticas e Pedagógicas: Villa-Lobos no Instituto de Educação do Rio de Janeiro na Era Vargas

O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar as propostas políticas, identitárias e pedagógicas orfeônicas de Villa-Lobos no Instituto de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, no período da Era Vargas. O corpus documental mobilizado neste estudo é constituído por correspondências, relatórios, hinários, cancioneiros, manuais pedagógicos e artigos de periódicos da época em questão. Esses documentos são articulados com três entrevistas, realizadas com professoras de música, ex-alunas da instituição. Nessa perspectiva, buscou-se entender como se deu a aproximação do projeto musical-pedagógico villalobiano com as ideias do Manifesto dos Pioneiros da Educação Nova, de 1932, que trabalharam no Instituto, a saber: Anísio Teixeira, Afranio Peixoto e Fernando de Azevedo. Coloca-se em baila o repertório pedagógico villalobiano e suas conexões com as ideologias fomentadas pelo governo do Getúlio Vargas, por meio das canções escolares, patrióticas, militares, de ofício e folclóricas. Dedica-se também à compreensão das relações do Maestro com os outros docentes da disciplina Música e Canto Orfeônico do Instituto de Educação: o compositor nacionalista Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, o pianista José Vieira Brandão e catedrática Ceição de Barros Barreto. Por meio desta investigação foi possível entender que a consolidação do Canto Orfeônico na escola da então capital da República deu-se por sua consonância com o ideário dos pioneiros escolanovistas, que defendiam o acesso à educação para todos, e com os educadores musicais nacionalistas, professores que trabalhavam motivados pelo desejo de construir uma identidade musical verdadeiramente brasileira

Performance analysis and analysis for performance : a study of Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9

This study of Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 aims at gaining insight into the decision-making processes of translating a score into a musical performance. Chapter I presents a discussion of selected issues related to interpretative analysis. Chapter II is an overview of the approaches to recording comparison deemed relevant to the present study. Chapter III is a comparative study of the vocal and string versions of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9, while Chapter IV offers a structural analysis of the work. Chapter V compares four recordings: the composer’s own with the Orchestre National de La Radiodiffusion Française—EMI 7243 5 66964 2 6; Odaline de la Martinez and the BBC Singers, LNT 102; Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony —RCA 09026-68538-2; and my own CD, Construção, Orquestra de Câmara Theatro São Pedro- Limited Edition (live recording made on December 11, 1995 in Bayreuth, Germany). This comparison utilizes data obtained with the software Tempo. The tabulation of these results is shown in graphs that compare how matters of tempo flexibility affect each performance. This multi-faceted study shows that although painstaking analysis can lead to insightful solutions, the fleeting nature of musical performance requires an open mind and imagination to deal with the often contradictory directives of the score.

A excursão artística Villa-Lobos pelo interior do Estado de São Paulo em 1931

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

Darius Milhaud: o nacionalismo francês e a conexão com o Brasil

Pós-graduação em Música - IA

A Sonata de Deus e o diabolus: nacionalismo, música e o pensamento social no cinema de Glauber Rocha

Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC

TRADITION AND INNOVATION: ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED COMPOSITIONS FOR VIOLONCELLO BY HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) began his musical career as a cellist. When he was only twelve years old, it became imperativeupon the sudden and untimely death of his fatherthat the young Villa-Lobos earn money as a cellist to provide financial support for his mother and sisters. Villa-Lobos's intimate relationship with the cello eventually inspired him to compose great music for this instrument. This dissertation explores both the diversity of compositional technique and the evolution of style found in the music for cello written by Villa-Lobos. The project consists of two recorded recital performances and a written document exploring and analyzing those pieces. In the study of the music of Villa-Lobos, it is of great interest to consider the music's traditional European elements in combination (or even juxtaposition) with its imaginative and sometimes wildly innovative Brazilian character. His early works were greatly influenced by European Romantic composers such as Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, and the virtuoso cellist/composer David Popper (whom Villa-Lobos idolized). Later, Villa-Lobos flourished in a newfound compositional independence and moved away from Euro-romanticism and toward the folk music of his Brazilian homeland. It is intriguing to experience this transition through an exploration of his cello compositions. The works examined and performed in this dissertation project are chosen from among the extensive number of Villa-Lobos's cello compositions and are his most important works for cello with piano, cello with another instrument, and cello with orchestra. The chosen works demonstrate the evolving range and combination of characteristic elements found in Villa-Lobos's compositional repertoire.

String Quartet n degrees 02 by Villa-Lobos: a dialogue with the cyclic form of Franck, Debussy and Ravel

This article investigates Villa-Lobos's String Quartet n degrees 02, an early work by this composer, written according cyclic sonata principles, as developed by Cesar Franck and systematized by Vincent d'Indy. Another important source are the string quartets composed by Franck (1889), Debussy (1893) and Ravel (1903), which possibly served as compositional models to Villa-Lobos. In this light, the themes of the Exposition in the first movement were analyzed and this procedure reveals some harmonic and rhythmic aspects throughout all the other movements.

Villa Lobos e a produçao da identidade nacional a través do canto orfeônico escolar.'Villa Lobos y la producción de la identidad nacional a través del canto escolar'.

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Haydn, segundo Villa-Lobos: uma análise do 1º movimento do Quarteto de cordas nº 7 de Villa-Lobos

Este estudo analisa o 1º movimento do Quarteto de Cordas nº 7 de Villa-Lobos e investiga possíveis referências aos quartetos de cordas compostos por Franz Haydn, como Villa-Lobos sugeriu a Arnaldo Estrella.

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THE ART SONG OF SOUTH AMERICA: AN EXPLORATION THROUGH PERFORMANCE

The repertoire included in this dissertation was presented over the course of three recitals, The Songs of Argentina, The Songs of Brazil, Chile and Venezuela, and The Songs of Perú and Colombia. Each recital was supplemented by written program notes and English translations of the Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua texts. The selections presented in this study was chosen in an effort to pair the works of internationally renowned composers like Argentine composers Alberto Ginastera and Carlos Guastavino, and Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, with those of lesser-known composers, including Venezuelan composer Juan Bautista Plaza, Peruvian composers Edgar Valcárcel, Theodoro Valcárcel, and Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales, and Colombian composer Jaime Léon. Each composer represents a milestone in the development of art song composition in South America. All three recitals were recorded and are available on compact discs in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM). This dissertation was completed in May, 2011.