The Fugues in the Bachianas Brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Neoclassicism and Learned Style

Authors

  • Norton Dudeque Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v18i1.146584

Abstract

This text is concerned with Villa-Lobos’s fugues in Bachianas Brasileiras. By acknowledging his reading of D’Indy’s music composition treatise Villa-Lobos also recognizes his knowledge of rules and practices of fugue composition as instructed by D’Indy. Further evidence may be corroborated by Villa-Lobos’s own description of these works in 1947 and published by Villa-Lobos Museum in 1972. In these descriptions the composer refers to fugue d’école and how he adheres or how he transgresses these composition instructions. In all the fugues examined the structural components of a fugue d’école are functional and represent a learned skill by the composer. Villa-Lobos shows us his ability, his craftmanship in fugue composition, and his chronologically distant inheritance of learned style. The amalgamation of these characteristics, stylistic allusions to the music of J. S. Bach, and of Brazilian music moods characterize these “nationalistic neoclassical fugues”.

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Author Biography

  • Norton Dudeque, Universidade Federal do Paraná

    Professor associado do Departamento de Artes da UFPR. Realizou doutorado (Ph.D.) na University of Reading na Grã-Bretanha sob a orientação de Jonathan Dunsby. Mestrado em musicologia na USP e em performance na University of Western Ontario, Canadá. Realizou pós-doutorado no Kings College em Londres. Áreas de atuação incluem história da teoria musical, teoria e análise musical, música brasileira do século XIX ao início do século XX. Desenvolve pesquisas nas seguintes temáticas: A música de Alberto Nepomuceno; As Bachianas Brasileiras de Villa-Lobos: contexto, história e análise; e os poemas sinfônicos de Leopoldo Miguéz.        Publicações incluem artigos em periódicos nacionais e internacionais e livros no Brasil e Inglaterra. É autor de Music Theory and Analysis in the writings of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) publicado por Ashgate (Grã-Bretanha) em 2005, reimpressão em 2016 (Routledge). Traduziu Análise Musical na Teoria e na Prática de Jonathan Dunsby e Arnold Whittall (Editora da UFPR, 2011) e organizou com Paulo de Tarso Salles (USP) Villa-Lobos, um compêndio (Editora da UFPR, 2017).

Published

2018-08-27

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How to Cite

The Fugues in the Bachianas Brasileiras by Heitor Villa-Lobos: Neoclassicism and Learned Style. (2018). Revista Música, 18(1), 67-101. https://doi.org/10.11606/rm.v18i1.146584