Klarinet Archive - Posting 000166.txt from 1997/03

From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Brazilian composers? (fwd)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 21:59:00 -0500

Sorry. Where you read west please change to east.
I don't know what is Dutch, but definitely the Holland people
arrived in Pernambuco. It is BRAZILIAN History.

Tchau

Fernando

At 11:58 04/03/97 +0000, you wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:19:05 GMT
>From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv%IBM.NET@-----.UK>
>To: "style is"@-----.UK,
>
brazilian.popular.music.The.best.concertos.were.write.with.contribuition.fro
>m.music.all.of@-----.UK
>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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>>
>
>