| Grant number: | 13/15151-4 |
| Support type: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| Effective date (Start): | November 01, 2013 |
| Effective date (End): | November 30, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Music |
| Principal Investigator: | Diósnio Machado Neto |
| Grantee: | Mitia Ganade D´Acol |
| Home Institution: | Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 14/21081-1 - Galant style and musical decorum in eighteenth-century Portuguese and Brazilian music, BE.EP.MS |
Abstract It exists in Luso-Brazilian musicology a thesis that the liturgical music composed for religious celebrations in Brazilian and Portuguese churches presents a great interpenetration of theatrical and ecclesiastical styles. This fact is interpreted not only as a need for symbolic display of monarchical power, but also as a "musical backwardness" of the Luso-Brazilian composers, for not being more decorous in writing sacred music. Thus, the question of decorum has been revisited by recent research, which denies the existence of a "lack" of musical decorum in the Luso-Brazilian liturgical settings, and sees the problem as a misinterpretation of the cultural context in which this music is inserted. The aim of this study is to discuss the Lusophone musical decorum from the study of eighteenth-century treatises dedicated to the investigation of the three musical styles (theater, chamber and church), and a case study of the solo parts in the Requiem Masses of José Maurício Nunes Garcia and Marcos Portugal. In this study, we use the theory of musical schema as a way of investigating the musical discourse, the communicative capacity of composers and consequently their decorum. | |