Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 (arr Krance)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (arr. John Krance)
Subtitle: Ária (Cantilena)
General Info
Year: 1938-45 / 1971
Duration: c. 6:40
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Voice and cellos
Publisher: Associated Music Publishers
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00
For further availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II (II doubling English Horn)
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III-IV
E-flat Alto Clarinet
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Contra-Alto Clarinet
B-flat Contrabass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Percussion, including:
- Bells
Spanish guitar (optional)
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Bachianas Brasileiras (an approximate English translation might be "Bach-inspired Brazilian pieces") 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 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 to freely adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music.
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 consists of two movements: Ária (Cantilena and Dança (Martelo).
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Mountain Ridge High School Woodwind Choir (George Hattendorf, conductor; Jonathan Bergeron, alto saxophone)
- Audio CD: Mountain Ridge High School Woodwind Choir (George Hattendorf, conductor; Jonathan Bergeron, alto saxophone) 2014
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- State University of New York, Fredonia, Wind Ensemble (Benjamin Kohn, conductor) - 30 April 2022
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)
- Fantasy in Three Movements in a Form of a Chôros (1958)
- 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 No. 5. Wikipedia. Accessed 4 March 2022
- List of Compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos. Wikipedia Accessed 4 March 2022
- Villa-Lobos, H.; Krance, J. (1971). Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5. Aria (Cantilena): For Woodwind Choir [score]. Associated Music Publishers: New York, N.Y.