Date of Award
Spring 5-2017
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Department
Music
Committee Chair
Jay Dean
Committee Chair Department
Music
Committee Member 2
Joseph L. Brumbeloe
Committee Member 2 Department
Music
Committee Member 3
Christopher J. Goertzen
Committee Member 3 Department
Music
Committee Member 4
Gregory A. Fuller
Committee Member 4 Department
Music
Committee Member 5
Catherine A. Rand
Committee Member 5 Department
Music
Abstract
Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Choros No. 10 is a composition with many cultural and symbolic inclusions. This work seeks to support a conductor’s informed performance of the piece by providing historical and technical context from the conductor’s life and influences. The first section examines the ethnographic and sociopolitical factors in Brazil during the conductor’s life, and then the personal influences on Villa-Lobos’ career, in order to establish the foundation for a section-by-section analysis of the work which illuminates the idiosyncratic nature of the composer’s masterpiece.
Copyright
2017, Dennis Paz Leoni
Recommended Citation
Leoni, Dennis Paz, "The Idiosyncratic Language of Brazilian Music: Strategies for Performing Villa-Lobos Choros No. 10" (2017). Dissertations. 1391.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1391