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Book 2017.0

Estudo Interpretativo da Técnica Composicional Melodia das Montanhas

Rodrigo Passos Felicissimo

Dependent title
Utilizada nas peças orquestrais

Music Novas Edições Acadêmicas 9783330765054 Available

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Other title information: New York Sky-Line Melody e Sinfonia No. 6 de Heitor Villa-Lobos

Annotation: The 20th century produced a significant number of geniuses. In music, we had Strawinsky, Debussy, Puccini, Strauss, to name just a few from different countries, and our own Villa-Lobos. His presence in the music scene is of great importance. Villa-Lobos, a profound observer of life, never missed an opportunity to invent new processes of musical creation for himself and for the teachers of Orpheonic Singing. Thus, in 1934, a method of creating melodies coming from nature itself emerged: the Chart to record the Melody of the Mountains of Brazil. "The maestro sought a kind of representation of Brazil based on these geographical symbols", as Dr. Rodrigo Felicíssimo points out in his doctoral thesis, which was promptly transformed into a book.

Identifier: 9783330765054

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

Live Samba

Luiz Fernando Nascimento de Lima

Dependent title
Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode

Music International Semiotics Institute 9519865497 Available

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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.

Identifier: 9519865497

Status: Available

Proceedings Paper 1997

Verbal and visual intersemiosis in aesthetical experiments — the case of contemporary Brazilian culture

Philadelpho Menezes

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
295-298

Semiotics Around the World

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Collection Article 1989

Brazil: A Culture in Tune with Semiotics

Lucia Santaella Braga

In: The Semiotic Web 1989

Pages
123-176

The Semiotic Web

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Journal Article 1983

Part I. Introduction

In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Pages
1-44

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.1

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.1

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Journal Article 1983

Part II. Some General Considerations

In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Pages
45-162

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.45

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.45

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Journal Article 1983

Part III. Masking and Its Limits

In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.163

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.163

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Journal Article 1983

Part IV. Puppets and Performing Objects: Case Studies

In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Pages
217-361

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.217

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.47.1-4.217

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