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| Author(s): |
Allan Medeiros Falqueiro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-31 |
| Examining board members: |
Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira;
Graziela Bortz;
Marcos Branda Lacerda;
Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade;
Mario Rodrigues Videira Junior
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| Advisor: | Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the usage of inversional symmetry in Villa-Lobos music, analyzing works composed between 1945 and 1950, after his first visit to the United States of America. The compositions selected were: the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth String Quartets (1945, 1946, 1947, 1950); the String Trio (1945) and Duo (1946); the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies (1945, 1950); the First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1945); the symphonic poem Erosão (1950); and the Fourth String Quartet, that brings 1917 as the year of composition on its manuscript, but was premiered only in 1949. A brief musicological study was conducted about Villa-Lobos in the period. An investigation about symmetry and its aesthetic properties in visual arts was also proposed, revealing a great proximity between its visual and hearing perception, being symmetry related to stasis, and asymmetry to movement. In order to provide a basis for the methodological study of symmetry, three works composed by Béla Bartók, a composer well known for the use of inversional symmetry, were analyzed: Fourteen Bagatelles op. 6: no. 2 (1908); Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs op. 20: no. 3 (1920); and parts of the Third String Quartet (1927). The analysis of these works by both composers revealed the presence of several axes of symmetry, such as the structuring of these around meta-axes of symmetry, an analytical resource developed by the author of this work. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/03646-9 - SYMMETRY IN THE MUSIC OF THE FIRST HALF OF TWENTIETH CENTURY: the Villa-Lobos in postwar and its affinities with Bartók's folklorism. |
| Grantee: | Allan Medeiros Falqueiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |