Homero de Sá Barreto: peças de câmara do período de transição entre a música brasileira de câmara do século XIX e o modernismo do século XX

Abstract

This dissertation investigates two representative chamber music works by Brazilian composer Homero de Sá Barreto. Our strategy to achieve goals for Performance Practice was based on Music Analysis and Structural Formal Analysis, serving as the foundation for performing works by Sá Barreto. Furthermore, the academical approach that lays within this dissertation allows musicians to perform other pieces by Brazilian composers from the same historical period specially for chamber music. We identified notable attributes in both pieces that form the basis of this study. These characteristics emerged from the methodic study of the analysis of the music scores themselves reinforcing what a piece of music can show through its inner structures. Following this approach the performer is empowered by a well-informed conception of the pieces he or she wants to perform. As a result, the performer is able to accomplish a proposal of how to perform a piece not well known, objectively and self-consciously. Furthermore, this approach does not deauthorize other performance proposals of the same pieces or other pieces for chamber music that integrate this historic period of Brazilian Chamber Music.