An unfinished essay: the musicalization project of Macunaíma

Authors

  • Tiago Hermano Breunig Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-784X.2016v16n25p60

Abstract

This paper is the preliminary study of an archive finding: H. J. Koellreutter’s musicaliza­tion project of Mário de Andrade’s Macunaíma. The project, dated March 2000, describes the process for composing Mário de Andrade’s rhapsody, directed and composed by the conductor H. J. Koellreutter. The finding confirms H. J. Koellreutter’s interest on dialoguing with Mário de Andrade’s work, which would suspend the reductionist opposition between atonality and musical nationalism, revealing, in the end, H. J. Koellreutter seemed more able to understand certain aspects of Mário de Andrade’s musical nationalism than orthodox nationalists were.

Author Biography

Tiago Hermano Breunig, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa

Doutor em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Professor colaborador do Departamento de Linguagem da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa.

Published

2016-11-17