Prelude No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)

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Prelude No. 5 is a guitar piece written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The piece is subtitled "Homenagem à vida social" (Homage to Social Life), is in the key of D major, marked "Poco animato", and is the second of the Five Preludes, written in 1940. The others are in E minor, E major, A minor, and E minor. It was first performed, together with its four companions, by Abel Carlevaro in Montevideo on 11 December 1943.[1]

Written in 6
4 meter, this prelude evokes the waltzes danced by the upper classes of Rio de Janeiro in a bygone age.[2]

References

  1. ^ Villa-Lobos, sua obra 2009, p. 153.
  2. ^ Béhague 1994, p. 142.

Sources

  • Béhague, Gerard. 1994. Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul. Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. ISBN 0-292-70823-8.
  • Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 2009. Version 1.0. MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos. Based on the third edition, 1989.

Further reading

  • Appleby, David P. 1988. Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25346-3.
  • Santos, Turíbio. 1985. Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, translated by Victoria Forde and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry, Co. Cork: Wise Owl Music. ISBN 978-0-947600-02-0
  • Wright, Simon. 1992. Villa-Lobos. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315476-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-315475-7 (pbk).