It is probably difficult to imagine today just how captivating a place Brazil was for 19th Century Europeans. Curious travellers found a whole new universe unveiling itself before their eyes. Under...
ISBN: 978-65-994082-0-5 Introduction It is well known the life of the statesman D. Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal (Queluz, 12/10/1798 – 24/09/1834). Likewise, its importance in Luso-Brazilian...
Francisco Manuel da Silva (1795 - 1865), renowned cellist and composer, wrote in 1823 an anthem celebrating the proclamation of independence of Brazil. Admirer of the “Marseillaise”, he believed...
1. Colonial period (to 1822). Relatively little is known about art music activities and composition during the first two centuries of Brazilian history. The substantial documentation attesting to...
Preface to the first edition Alongside the transformations which occurred in the harmonic language of Western classical music of the 20thcentury, from the growing dilation of tonality up to its...
In 1969, Edino Krieger organised the first edition of the Guanabara Music Festival. This inspired the realization of the First Contemporary Brazilian Music Biennial, five years later, with the...
Bossa Nova combined traditional music, samba, with a more sophisticated harmony, modernising and internationalising Brazilian popular music. Officially, it is said that Bossa Nova came into being...
At the beginning of the 18th century, gold has been discovered at Minas Gerais, which became the target of a great number of explorers. As a consequence of the “golden” era, a fine artistic...
The Brazilian tango is an ill-defined genre. A comparison, for example, between tangos by Ernesto Nazareth, Eduardo Souto (“O Despertar da Montanha”, “Do Sorriso da Mulher Nasceram as...
Some people think that Carnival is a typical Brazilian festivity, but it has a very ancient origin. It is associated with agrarian cults of ancient Greece (about the fifth century BC). With the...
Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920), one of the most important and active figures in Brazilian music, left a set of works of different genres, among them sacred music, songs, symphonic music, chamber...
