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Bachianas Brasileiras No 4
Heitor Villa-Lobos (trans. Merlin Patterson)
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General Info
Year: 1965 /
Duration: c.18:45
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano
Publisher: Merlin Patterson
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $350.00
Movements
1. Prelúdio (Introdução) - Lento – 3:05
2. Coral (Canto do Sertão) - Largo – 4:55
3. Ária (Cantiga) - Moderato – 6:50
4. Dança (Miudinho) - Muito animado – 4:00
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
The 4th Bachianas Brasileiras went through a number of transformations by Villa-Lobos himself. It was originally written for piano in three chunks: the Dança (Miudinho), which became the finale, in 1930; the Ária (Cantiga), the 3rd movement, in 1935; and the Prelúdio (Introdução) and Coral (Canto do Sertão), the 1st two movements, in 1941. Finally, he re-worked the first movement to become the opening Seed of God segment of his Broadway musical Magdalena.
- Program Note from The Villa-Lobos Magazine
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: University of Houston Wind Ensemble (Eddie Green, conductor) - 1999
Media
State Ratings
- Tennessee: VI
- Texas: V. Complete
Performances
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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)
- Nonetto
- Three Brazilian Folksongs (arr. Fenske) (2014)
- Uirapurú (arr. Hanna) (1948/2010)
Resources
- "Bachianas Brasileiras no. 4 for Wind Ensemble, & more!" The Villa-Lobos Magazine, 7 March 2018. Web. Accessed 21 September 2020
- Bachianas Brasileiras, Wikipedia Accessed 29 May 2018