Nietzsche and Villa-Lobos: from Dionysian music to folk song
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2318-8863.discurso.2018.150922Keywords:
Nietzsche, Villa-Lobos, Music, Dionysian Song, Folk MusicAbstract
The paper exposes aspects of Nietzsche’s conception of Dionysian music, trying to find possible points of convergence with the aesthetics of the composer Villa-Lobos, whose compositions are known for the use of folk themes and scales. The paper should try to understanding Dionysian music in its relation to mythology, and it argues that the notion of tragic culture that derives from this relationship means for Nietzsche a possibility of overcoming the values crystallized centuries ago in the West, both in moral and musical terms. In emphasizing the importance of the folk song for the musical language, Villa-Lobos relates to a movement that tries of overcoming the musical language dominated by the tonal scale, at the same time that making use of its aesthetic procedures for an intense insertion in the cultural debate of his time around Brazilian national identity.
Key Words
Nietzsche; Villa-Lobos; Music; Dionysian Song; Folk Music.
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