Heitor Villa-Lobos: o processo de criação dos 5 prelúdios (para violão solo - Rio, 1940)

Abstract

This research was developed through musical genetical criticism. The process documents (manuscripts) of the maestro and composer Villa-Lobos's five Preludes for solo guitar with the scientific purpose of understanding the artistical creation process are analyzed, through a comparative investigation of the process documents with the edited work. The analysis had as theoretical basis the genetical criticism under the semiotics perspective of the peirceana live; besides this, historical and analytical elements of the musical production ofthe five Vilia-Lobos Preludes are presented. As it is a study work that involves Musical Analysis related to works for guitar, the development of this research is directly associated to Guitar and Musical Structure disciplines. Composer Heitor Villa-Lobos's creation process in its five Preludes for solo guitar, as in allbis work , is directed by a poetical project that can be detected in its experimentation course where very consistent embryonic musical ideas are found. Villa-Lobos expresses himself through very personal sound codes. The five Preludes show a "contemporary expression" , "flattening and hannonization of contradictions", with important sense of the ideological aspect acting as neutralization of social contradictions, softening the differences present in its esthetics