Abstract
Author(s): Abreu, Edward Ayres de | Abstract: Considering fin-de-siecle symbolism and its ideological landscape as a reaction against naturalism in the arts and against positivism in philosophy, this article seeks to examine the technical and conceptual features present in two pieces of contemporary vocal chamber music by Ruy Coelho (1889-1986). The examined works, 6 Kacides Mauresques — a cycle, apparently inspired by 10th-century Iberian Arabic poetry translated into French by Franz Toussaint and published in Mercure de France in 1909 — and Sur la jetee d’Alexandrie — a piece composed after an excerpt from Aphrodite, a novel by Pierre Louys published in 1896 — were probably composed in the early 1910s. Given this historical context, the influence of Claude-Achille Debussy (specifically his Trois chansons de Bilitis) will be evaluated — particularly in the relation between the text and music, and in its erotic dimension.
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Assim se começava, nos anos cinquenta, uma breve monografia: “Que sais-je du Symbolisme? Mille choses confuses”.1 Não sendo possível afirmar que o estado da arte de hoje nos oferece, necessariamente, uma visão mais clara — facto que muito deve aos próprios conceitos e contextos, por vezes dúbios, com que (e em que) este simbolismo se veiculou, e não sendo meu propósito discuti-lo, importa contudo situar o referente aqui em causa
The examined works, 6 Kacides Mauresques — a cycle, apparently inspired by 10th-century Iberian Arabic poetry translated into French by Franz Toussaint and published in Mercure de France in 1909 — and Sur la jetée d’Alexandrie — a piece composed after an excerpt from Aphrodite, a novel by Pierre Louÿs published in 1896 — were probably composed in the early 1910s
A força da relação texto-música revela-se no perscrutar de uma verdade mais-além enquanto todo cognoscível e sensorial, pondo-se assim de parte o naturalismo descritivo ou até a estratégia impressionista que visava a recepção fugaz e, de certa forma, industrial, de valores visuais — lembre-se que a pintura instantânea ao ar-livre desenvolve-se graças aos avanços tecnológicos no que concerne à qualidade e ao prazo de validade dos pigmentos e dos tubos de tinta
Summary
Title “...le Désir est tout...” — Obras vocais de câmara de Ruy Coelho à luz do simbolismo fin-desiècle. Powered by the California Digital Library University of California “...le Désir est tout...” — Obras vocais de câmara de Ruy Coelho à luz do simbolismo fin-de-siècle
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