"Como articula Raul de Souza? - uma investigação acerca das singularidades da articulação no trombone de vara em performances do artista"

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze how the trombonist Raul de Souza articulates with the slide trombone. Based on an interview with Souza himself, hypotheses about his form of articulation are created, and the work delves into a discussion about the efficiency of syllabic translation as a way of describing the articulation used by a trombonist. From this, a discussion on articulatory phonetics and two different experiments with some articulatory syllables used in the slide trombone literature are carried out. The research, then, goes ahead with the syllabic transcription of some solos by Souza, in which the syllables used by the musician during performances were inferred through listening. From these transcripts, an evaluation of the syllabic combinations used by the musician is made, paying attention to the similarities and differences in their way of articulating in the doodle tonguing method, systematized by Mcchesney (1992). At the end of the text, other characteristics of the musician are also observed and contextualized from the analysis of performances by trombonist J.J Johnson, carried out in Bourgois III (1986) and Lancaster (2009), leading to important considerations about the musical uniqueness of Raul de Souza .