A tópica do indianismo na obra Wãnĩ A’Ama de Maria Helena Rosa Fernandes

Abstract

The extensive output of the Brazilian composer Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes comprises more than 60 pieces, written since the 70's. Her works contribute considerably to the repertoire of contemporary music, not only due to the timbristic, rhythmic and gestural richness of her writing, but also for transmitting an important element of Brazilian culture: the indigenous topic. This article aims to reflect on current approaches to Brazilian national topics, taking as a model, the topic of Indianism, applied in the symphonic work Wãnĩ A’Ama (1982) by Rosas Fernandes. Through the analysis of the resources that constitute its compositional and expressive language, this article also intends to encourage the dissemination of her repertoire, still overshadowed by the works of other representatives of the 20th and 21st century, both towards theoreticalmusicological research and in field of symphonic performance.

Keywords

• : topics
• brazilian music
• indigenous music
• ethnomusicology
• symphonic music