Canção do Amor Demais [Song of Too Much Love]

a milestone in contemporary Brazilian popular music

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Keywords:

Bossa Nova, Tom Jobim, Vinícius de Morais, João Gilberto, José da Veiga Oliveira, Brazilian Popular Music, Cultural Journalism, Brazilian Culture

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of the LP Canção do Amor Demais (Song of Too Much Love) within the panorama of Brazilian culture, much more than simply within the area of popular music itself. As the a starting point, this discussion uses the LP’s liner notes by Vinícius de Moraes and the critique by José da Veiga Oliveira to demonstrate that the existing border between popular classical music become less evident with this album. This is due to the high compositional quality of the songs and arrangements by Tom Jobim, the introduction of João Gilberto and the guitar rhythms that would come to symbolize bossa nova.

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Author Biography

Liliana Harb Bollos, Carlos Gomes Music School, EMESP Tom Jobim, São Paulo (Brazil)

PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PuC-SP, 2007), Master's degree and diploma in Jazz Performance / Piano Jazz from Kunst universität Graz, Austria (1996) and Bachelor's and Bachelor's degree in Literature (uSP, 1987). Since 1999 she is a professor at Carlos Gomes Music College where she teaches popular piano, Portuguese language, popular harmony and pedagogical instrumental practice. She teaches popular harmony and perception at the Tatuí Conservatory and teaches the history of popular music and is a cornet pianist at EMESP Tom Jobim. As a pianist, she has performed with Alaíde Costa, Mark Murphy, Orquestra Sinfônica de Santo André and Duo Fel, Fernando Corrêa Quartet, Coralusp, and Ruy Castro- Sabá Quintet, among others. She taught popular piano at the Ourinhos Music Festival (2005) and at the Tatuí Tatuí Summer Course (2007). With the Imago Quartet (with Renato Correa, Watson Clis and Fernando Corrêa), she has performed at the Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto performed in the Winter Festival of Ouro Preto (2007), in the SESI Music Project (Araraquara, Franca and Rio Claro, 2007) and in several units of Sesc. She is a member of Quarteto Sonoro (with Daniel Allain, Fernando Corrêa and Sérgio Schreiber) She is a member of Quarteto Sonoro (with Daniel Allain, Fernando Corrêa and Sérgio Schreiber) with which he was one of the awarded groups by ProAc from the São Paulo State Culture Secretariat. She has published several articles in magazines (Opus, Contemporânea, Música Hodie, Revista Comunicação & Sociedade, among others) and books (Ensino, música e and Interdisciplinarity and Faculdade de Música Carlos Gomes).

References

BANDEIRA, Manuel. Literatura de Violão. Revista da Música Popular, Rio de Janeiro, n. 10, out. 1955.

BOLLOS, Liliana Harb. Um exame da bossa nova pela crítica jornalística: renovação na música sob o olhar da crítica. Tese de Doutorado. PuC-SP, São Paulo, 2007.

CABRAL, Sérgio. Antônio Carlos Jobim: uma biografia. Rio de Janeiro: Lumiar, 1997.

CARDOSO, Elizete. Canção do amor demais. Festa. FT 1801. 1958. 1 CD.

CASTRO, Ruy. Chega de saudade. 3. ed. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2002.

GILBERTO, João. Chega de saudade. Rio de Janeiro: EMI-Odeon, 1959. 1CD.

JOBIM, Antônio Carlos. Texto da contracapa do disco Chega de saudade. Rio de Janeiro: EMI-Odeon, 1959.

MORAES, Vinicius. Certidão de nascimento III. Diário Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, 29 jan. 1965.

________. “Canção do amor demais”. Texto na contracapa do disco. Festa. FT 1801. 1958.

OLIVEIRA, José da Veiga. Canções e modinhas nossas. Suplemento Literário. O Estado de S. Paulo, 28 fev. 1959.

RODRIGuES, Caetano; GAVIN, Charles. Bossa Nova e Outras Bossas: A Arte e o Design das Capas dos LPs. São Paulo: Viva Rio/Petrobrás, 2005.

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Published

2010-07-05

How to Cite

Bollos, Liliana Harb. 2010. “Canção Do Amor Demais [Song of Too Much Love]: A Milestone in Contemporary Brazilian Popular Music”. Per Musi, no. 22 (July):1-7. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/43879.

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No. 22 (2010): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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