Collected Essays: Musical and Anthropological Perspectives

Editors: Cristina Moura Emboaba da Costa Julião de Camargo, Nira Azibeiro Pomar and Carolina Momm de Melo
The MusiCS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade [Music, Culture, and Society in English] research group at UDESC/CNPq, presents a compendium of articles by Prof. Dr. Acácio Piedade, in his honor, on the occasion of his retirement as a professor at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). His academic work in the field of music has encompassed composition, theory and analysis, semiotics, anthropology, ethnomusicology, rhetoric, narrativity, and transculturalism. The sixteen articles selected for this book reflect Dr. Piedade’s significant contributions over the past twenty years (2003-2023).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dr. Cristina Emboaba
Ms. Nira Pomar
Ms. Carolina Melo
Foreword

Luiz Henrique Fiaminghi
Preface

Rafael José de Menezes Bastos
Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER 1
Topic theory and Brazilian musicality: reflections on rhetoricity in music

CHAPTER 2
Pursuing threads: thoughts on hybridity, musicality, and topics

CHAPTER 3
Music and rhetoricity

CHAPTER 4
Topics in Villa-Lobos: raw and pure excess

CHAPTER 5
The city and the country in Villa-Lobos’s prelude to the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2: musical topics, rhetoricity, and narrativity

CHAPTER 6
Music and identity through the Theory of Topics

CHAPTER 7
Topic Theory: a personal reflection

CHAPTER 8
Brazilian jazz and friction of musicalities

CHAPTER 9
Notes on Tristan in the Faun: two preludes to the post-tonal

CHAPTER 10
The long afternoon of a faun

CHAPTER 11
Modeling of time:
Salvatore Sciarrino, windows, and beclouding

CHAPTER 12
Preliminary reflections on transcultural composition

CHAPTER 13
A path to transcultural composition

CHAPTER 14
Musical analysis and context in indigenous music: the poetics of flutes

CHAPTER 15
Flutes, songs, and dreams: cycles of creation and musical performance among the Wauja of the Upper Xingu (Brazil)

CHAPTER 16
Different spatial hearings: hypotheses on the relativity of perception and the spatial character of hearing

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Index

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