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| Author(s): |
Pedro Faidiga Passos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-08-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Diosnio Machado Neto;
Beatriz Duarte Pereira de Magalhães Castro;
Davide John Cranmer
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| Advisor: | Diosnio Machado Neto |
| Abstract | |
The aesthetics of comic opera, germ of eighteenth-century music, gave to composers a new range of musical combinations and strategies of contrast and dramatic flow. By playing in the opera the action of ordinary men, music was able to absorb and combine both materials taken from more diverse cultural contexts - such as hunting, war and the countryside - as well as musical styles that, together, are called musical topics. Consequently, the range of eighteenth-century combinations allowed composers to create unique expressive meanings, according to the expressive purposes determined by the social, cultural, and theological context in which music is inserted. Such innovations in the musical language were also available to the Brazilian priest and composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767 - 1830). This research aims to study the Kyrie of the Mass of St. Cecilia of Fr. José Maurício Nunes Garcia in the perspective of musical signification, in order to investigate (1) the musical strategy in which José Maurício composed this Kyrie, (2) if the musical strategie points to the cultural / theological units involved in the martyrdom of St. Cecilia (such as self-denial, redemption, salvation, etc.), and if (3) we can understand how these cultural units / theological ideas influence musical choices. By manipulating from formal elements, such as harmony and cadences, to musical topics taken from the tradition of pastoral music to the tradition of representing scenes of awe and wonder (whose music became known as ombra), José Maurício manages to dialogue with the culture and the theology surrounding the Mass of St. Cecilia. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/20186-2 - The mass of Saint Cecilia: a hermeneutic analysis |
| Grantee: | Pedro Faidiga Passos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |