Stage Music During the São Paulo Belle Époque

Abstract

In the period covering the last years of the nineteenth century to thefirst two decades of the twentieth century, São Paulo had the musicscene as one of its main theatrical genres aimed at a wider audience,which the central objective was to divert him above any other purpose.Although each one of them have their own conventions and workingdinamics, in all of them music was an essencial element in the show.The designation “teatro de revista” has become a reference and hasserved to name a much greater set of modalities including operetta,burleta, magic, vaudeville, zarzuela, fantasy, among others. As animportant element in the production and dissemination of music inurban space befor the emergence and consolidation of the eletronicmedia, the study of musical theather in its various and complexaspects can be essencial to understand the music scene and popularculture in São Paulo city.