As canções para canto e piano de Carmen Vasconcellos (1918 - 2001)

Abstract

Despite having a solid career in Minas Gerais around the fifth decade of the 20th century, the composer Carmen Sylvia Vieira de Vasconcellos remains scarcely known outside her home state. Apart from being a pianist, choir conductor, educator, folklorist and author of books of nationalist musical content, she also developed intense compositional work. In this field, she received greater acknowledgement in the genre of chamber song, leaving a large number of pieces that remain in manuscript to date. Over a decade after her passing, the aforementioned material has been organized and will be edited in the current year of 2017, including sound recording from the scores, by the School of Music of UFMG, institution where she taught for 38 years.