CESAR GUERRA-PEIXEAND BRAZILIAN MUSICAL

IDENTITY

Gerson Tadeu A. Vivan Filho

Oxford, August 2012

A Brief Historical Contextualization

PRE-COLUMBIAN

PERIODCOLONIAL

BRAZILUNITED

KINGDOMEMPIRE OF

BRAZILOLD

REPUBLIC VARGAS ERA

1500 1808 1822 1881 1930 1964

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP DEMOCRACY

1985

Cesar Guerra-Peixe(1914-1993)

“In the carriage, a doll representing the one that would

be born just days hence, everyone certain it would be a

girl…... (Me?...)”

Note on the back of the photo by Guerra-Peixe (1987)

1938

Mario de Andrade: Ensaio sobre a Música Brasileira (1928)

“Every Brazilian artist who at the present moment creates Brazilian art is an efficient and respectable human being. Those who make international

or foreigner art, if not a genious, is completely useless and a

distinguished beast!”

3 stages for National art:1st – National Thesis2nd – National feeling

3rd – National Unconsciousness

Initial Phase(1938-1943) Composing studies with Newton Padua

- Mostly incipient works- Army’s “Fibra de

Heroi” - Conterpoint and

Harmony studies finished

- Apart from Suite Infatil, all works were destroyed.

Dodecaphonic Phase (1944-1949) Grupo Música Viva

under H. J. Koellreutter’s leadership

DodecaphonismArnold Schoenberg

Música Viva Manifest (1949-1993) “… Intellectual production (…) is liable to a

constant metamorphosis, under the evolution law. Music is movement, music is life.

MÚSICA VIVA follows the present times in its way of discovery and conquest, fighting for the new ideas for a new world, believing in the creative power of human mind…

MÚSICA VIVA believes in music power as an universal language, as well as in its role in a better union between the peoples.

Rio de Janeiro, November 1st , 1946

“Brazilian” Phase (1949-1993) - RECIFE (Pernambuco):

- Folklore and Urban Popular Music researches (maracatu, xangô, côco, zabumba, cabocolinhos, reza-de-defunto, frevo, pregões…)

- Maracatus do Recife (1955)

- SÃO PAULO: Jongo, Catertê, Folia—de-Reis, Congada, Moda-de-viola…

Conclusions

Further Information

Further Information

Audio Sample #1: The ArrangmentsTelevision song by Miguel Gustavo, for the 1970 Football World Cup

Sample #2: The Concert MusicPonteado, for Orchestra (1955)

Audio Sample #3: The Concert MusicTributo a Portinari (1991)

Audio Sample #4: The Chamber MusicTrio for violin, cello and piano (1960)

Audio Sample #5: The Chamber MusicA Inúbia do Cabocolinho

Audio Sample #6: The Popular MusicOrquestra Armorial - Galope

Audio Sample #7: The Popular MusicOrquestra Armorial - Mourão