Collected Essays: Musical and Anthropological Perspectives

Editors: Cristina Moura Emboaba da Costa Julião de Camargo, Nira Azibeiro Pomar and Carolina Momm de Melo

The MusiCS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade [Music, Culture, and Society in English] research group at UDESC/CNPq, presents a compendium of articles by Prof. Dr. Acácio Piedade, in his honor, on the occasion of his retirement as a professor at the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). His academic work in the field of music has encompassed composition, theory and analysis, semiotics, anthropology, ethnomusicology, rhetoric, narrativity, and transculturalism. The sixteen articles selected for this book reflect Dr. Piedade’s significant contributions over the past twenty years (2003-2023).

TABLE OF CONTENTS Dr. Cristina Emboaba Ms. Nira Pomar Ms. Carolina Melo Foreword Luiz Henrique Fiaminghi Preface Rafael José de Menezes Bastos Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1 Topic theory and Brazilian musicality: reflections on rhetoricity in music CHAPTER 2 Pursuing threads: thoughts on hybridity, musicality, and topics CHAPTER 3 Music and rhetoricity CHAPTER 4 Topics in Villa-Lobos: raw and pure excess CHAPTER 5 The city and the country in Villa-Lobos’s prelude to the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2: musical topics, rhetoricity, and narrativity CHAPTER 6 Music and identity through the Theory of Topics CHAPTER 7 Topic Theory: a personal reflection CHAPTER 8 Brazilian jazz and friction of musicalities CHAPTER 9 Notes on Tristan in the Faun: two preludes to the post-tonal CHAPTER 10 The long afternoon of a faun CHAPTER 11 Modeling of time: Salvatore Sciarrino, windows, and beclouding CHAPTER 12 Preliminary reflections on transcultural composition CHAPTER 13 A path to transcultural composition CHAPTER 14 Musical analysis and context in indigenous music: the poetics of flutes CHAPTER 15 Flutes, songs, and dreams: cycles of creation and musical performance among the Wauja of the Upper Xingu (Brazil) CHAPTER 16 Different spatial hearings: hypotheses on the relativity of perception and the spatial character of hearing The essays gathered in this book were originally published at About the author Index