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Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras: Intertextuality and Stylization

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Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras is a twentieth-century homage to J.S. Bach's music, featuring nine suites and contextualized and critically examined in this book. It explores the corpus' structure, intertextual aspects, and relationship to Bach's music, Brazilian popular music, and other contemporaries. Musical examples illustrate various topics, including urban Brazilian popular music, northeast and afro rhythms, and folkloric melodies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 170 pages
Publication date: 24 September 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd


Heitor Villa-Loboss' Bachianas Brasileiras is a remarkable collection of nine suites that showcase the composer's unique Brazilian neoclassical style. This body of work is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of homage to J.S. Bach's music in the 20th century. In this comprehensive book, the corpus of Bachianas Brasileiras is contextualized and critically examined in terms of its structure, intertextual aspects, and its relationship to Bach's music, Brazilian popular music, and other works by contemporaries of Villa Lobos. A diverse range of musical examples is provided to illustrate the selected topics in the works, encompassing urban Brazilian popular music such as the choro, Brazilian northeast and afro rhythms, and the citation of folkloric melodies. Dudeques' thorough examination of Bachianas Brasileiras offers invaluable insights for scholars and researchers of music theory and analysis.

Weight: 503g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367340919

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