1st Edition

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras Intertextuality and Stylization

By Norton Dudeque Copyright 2022
186 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras demonstrates how the composer achieved his own Brazilian neoclassical style in a group of works, nine suites in total, that is arguably one of the best examples of homage to J.S. Bach’s music in the twentieth century. In this book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualized and critically examined according to its structure and... Read more

Introduction

1 Bach’s music: from myth to universal inspiration

2 The Homage to J. S. Bach and elements of stylization

3 Intertextuality with Brazilian popular music

4 Analytical Essays on Intertextuality and Intratextuality

5 Final Remarks

References

Biography

Norton Dudeque is Senior Associate professor at the Arts Department of the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) and Researcher at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil).