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The Music of Brazil / David P. Appleby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292767584
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.781 19
LOC classification:
  • ML232 .A74 1983
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Musical Examples -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Music in the Colony -- 2. The Braganças in Brazil -- 3. The Awakening of Nationalism -- 4. Folk, Popular, and Art Music -- 5. The Nationalist Composers -- 6. After Modernismo -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Here is the most comprehensive history of Brazilian music available in English. Concise yet remarkably detailed, it provides professional musicologists and music lovers alike with a clear outline of the major trends, important composers, and currents of thought that have shaped the folk, popular, and art music that are an important part of Brazil's unique cultural heritage. The Music of Brazil contains over seventy musical examples representing musical idiom and form throughout recent history. A useful glossary introduces the reader to the key terms of Brazilian music, from agogô—a percussion instrument composed of two bells—to xocalho—a wooden or metal rattler.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780292767584

Frontmatter -- Content -- Musical Examples -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Music in the Colony -- 2. The Braganças in Brazil -- 3. The Awakening of Nationalism -- 4. Folk, Popular, and Art Music -- 5. The Nationalist Composers -- 6. After Modernismo -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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Here is the most comprehensive history of Brazilian music available in English. Concise yet remarkably detailed, it provides professional musicologists and music lovers alike with a clear outline of the major trends, important composers, and currents of thought that have shaped the folk, popular, and art music that are an important part of Brazil's unique cultural heritage. The Music of Brazil contains over seventy musical examples representing musical idiom and form throughout recent history. A useful glossary introduces the reader to the key terms of Brazilian music, from agogô—a percussion instrument composed of two bells—to xocalho—a wooden or metal rattler.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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