Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 Suite
Heitor Villa-Lobos (arr. Alfred Reed)
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General Info
Year: 1941 / 1965
Duration: c. 24:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
Movements
1. Prelúdio (Introdução)
2. Coral (Canto do Sertão)
3. Ária (Cantiga)
4. Danza (Mindinho)
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Bachianas Brasileiras are a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion of Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music.
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 was scored for piano (1930–41); orchestrated in 1942 (Preludio dedicated to Tomas Terán; Coral dedicated to José Vieira Brandão; Ária dedicated to Sylvio Salema; Dança dedicated to Antonieta Rudge Müller)
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
- Alabama: Class AA
- Arkansas: V
- Louisiana: V
Performances
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- University of Cincinnati (Ohio) College-Conservatory of Music Wind Ensemble (Thomas Gamboa, conductor) - 15 November 2022
- Medalist Concert Band (Bloomington, Minn.) (Jerry Luckhardt, conductor) – 20 May 2018
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Aria from "Bachianas Brasilieras No 5" (1938/1945)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 (arr. Patterson) (1965)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Suite (arr. Reed) (1965)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (arr. Krance) (1938-45/1971)
- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7 (trans. Talley) (1942/2019)
- Brazil (1905)
- Choros No. 2
- Concerto Grosso for Woodwind Quartet and Wind Orchestra (1959/1993)
- El Trompo (1950)
- Fantasia Brasiliera (1926)
- Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman (arr. Cailliet) (1930/1952)
- Nonetto
- Three Brazilian Folksongs (arr. Fenske) (2014)
- Uirapurú (arr. Hanna) (1948/2010)
Resources
- Bachianas Brasileiras, Wikipedia Accessed 29 May 2018
- Villa-Lobos, H.; Reed, A. (1965). Suite from Bachianas brasile[i]ras no. 4 : for Symphonic Band [score]. F. Colombo: New York.