Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 1997/03

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Re: Brazilian composers? (fwd)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 09:24:44 -0500

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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:19:05 GMT
From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv%IBM.NET@-----.UK>
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Subject: Re: Brazilian composers?

the country. Let me explain better.
In Brazil you can divide the country in three diferents parts:
south, south-west and north-west. Each one has a particular kind of music:
South->was colonized with european people(Germany and Suiss); South-west->
was colonized with Italian and Potuguese people; and, North-west-> was
colonized with Holland people. So, after years, the BRAZILIAN people, and of
course its music, is a mix of those influence. Sorry, I forgot to say about
African people: they are in entire Brazil.
Nowadays, on South you have a specific kind of folklorical music, in
south-west you have the SAMBA, well reconized on entire world, and one kind
of "classical" samba named CHORO. Choro in Brazil is, more or less, like
jazz in US. And, in north-west you have another kind of folklorical music.
All the composers have been dived on that influence and it will be
present on their work.
Only for exemple: we have one Concertino made from one composer
named Francisco Mignone. It is in three moviments. The first is one
"classical" moviment like Mozart's concerto. The second is one
MODINHA(portuguese word, in english could be TUNE (?)) like, for who knows,
the Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5 - Villa-Lobos. And the last is one
CHORO, one kind of samba.
I have a Encore 4.0 file from that concertino. It is in public
domain. If somebody want I can send that file.

I hope it helps

Cheers

Fernando Silveira
Principal Clarinet - National Symphony - Brazil
Far be it for me etc. ... but I think for "west" above [oeste], people
should read "east" [leste]. (Otherwise the history makes no sense. The
Dutch settled in Pernambuco, which is definitely in the northeast).

Roger
Shilcock

At 14:45 03/03/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear Fernando,
>
>maybe you can tell us more about these works by brazilian composers. I
>think that many of us are interested in these composers and the style of
>their compositions. Can you give us a short description?
>
>Ates Yilmaz
>Opera of Mainz
>Germany
>
>
>
>Fernando Silveira wrote:
>>
>> Dear Oliver, unfurtunelly those pieces are not in public domain.
>> I have contact with several composers and I can ask if you can put
>> their music on your page.
>> I already have permission to distribuite some of those for another
>> clarinet players.
>> If you want it I can send it to you
>>
>> Cheers
>> Fernando
>>
>> At 09:16 28/02/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Fernando,
>> >If any of those clarinet/string orchestra/reduction pieces is in the public
>> >domain,
>> >I'd be willing to make them available to everyone on my Web page.
>> >
>> >There are nations and cultures which have been terribly neglected as regards
>> >their
>> >development of musical literature for traditional instruments and I think
> that
>> >Brazil is one of them.
>> >
>> >Oliver
>> >
>> >
>> >Fernando Silveira writes:
>> >
>> >> there are several clarinet concerts for String
>> >>Orchestra made form brazilian composers.
>> >
>> >
>
>