EXCLUSIVO EM EBOOK! O título Pequena história da música é modesto para a dimensão analítica alcançada por Mário de Andrade nestas páginas dedicadas ao estudo da música – a arte cujos elementos formais são constitutivos do homem, “os movimentos do coração, o ato de respirar já são elementos rítmicos, o passo já organiza um ritmo, as mãos percutindo já podem determinar todos os elementos do ritmo. E a voz produz o som”. Entendendo, portanto, o homem como um ser com ritmo e som, Mário de Andrade partirá da música elementar, período primitivo em que a música ainda não apresentava uma organização, para analisar a história musical e chegar à música erudita e popular brasileira. Assim, terão destaque nesta obra a música cristã e a profana, o Classicismo e o Romantismo, o antigo e o moderno, o passado e a contemporaneidade. Além do precioso estudo sobre a música, o leitor aqui se depara, sem nenhuma dificuldade, com a sensibilidade e perspicácia de Mário pesquisador e se deleita, ao mesmo tempo, com a prosa sempre versátil e convidativa do escritor.
Author
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922. He has had an enormous influence on Brazilian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil. Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São Paulo for twenty years. Trained as a musician and best known as a poet and novelist, Andrade was personally involved in virtually every discipline that was connected with São Paulo modernism, and became Brazil's national polymath. He was the driving force behind the Week of Modern Art, the 1922 event that reshaped both literature and the visual arts in Brazil. After working as a music professor and newspaper columnist he published his great novel, Macunaíma, in 1928. At the end of his life, he became the founding director of São Paulo's Department of Culture, formalizing a role he had long held as the catalyst of the city's—and the nation's—entry into artistic modernity. From Wikipedia
