How La llorona became a Miserere by Willy Corrêa de Oliveira

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Keywords:

Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, Miserere, Metalanguage, Musical memory, Brazilian contemporary music

Abstract

In our research on the cycle of piano pieces called Miserere, by Brazilian composer Willy Corrêa de Oliveira (DE BONIS, 2010) we discuss a series of compositional procedures used in this work and in the composer’s production in general, such as borrowings and metalanguage, the relation to visual arts, the condensation of ideas, the superposition of quotations in the manner of an ideogram, musical theater, and the possibility of an structural analysis of each piece side by side with a semantic reading (favored by the score itself). As an open work, the Miserere has received additions by the composer after the publication of this research. The same analytical tools applied to the cycle are here used to study one of the last pieces to join the cycle in 2009.

Author Biography

  • Maurício Funcia De Bonis, University of São Paulo (Brazil) - (USP)

    Composer, pianist and researcher. He graduated in composition, under the guidance of Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, at ECA-USP, where he completed his doctorate in musicology, under the guidance of Flávia Camargo Toni, as a FAPESP scholar. He participated as a fellow of the 40th Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany (July 2000), and studied piano with Heloísa Zani, Amílcar Zani and Cláudia Padilha. As a researcher, he has participated in academic conferences in Brazil and abroad, devoting himself especially to Brazilian contemporary music. He has taught at the Mozarteum College of São Paulo, at EMESP Tom Jobim - School of Music of the State of São Paulo, at the Carlos Gomes Music College, and at the Prados Festival. As a composer, he has participated in national and international contemporary music festivals, such as the New Music Festival, the Contemporary Music Biennials of Rio de Janeiro and Mato Grosso, and the 1st Brazil-Colombia Contemporary Music Symposium in Medellin. As a pianist, he has a duo with soprano Caroline De Comi, dedicated in particular to the interpretation of Brazilian contemporary music.

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2013-06-13

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No. 27 (2013): General Topics

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“How La Llorona Became a Miserere by Willy Corrêa De Oliveira”. 2013. Per Musi, no. 27 (June): 1-11. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/39723.