Étude No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 5, part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.

History

The autograph manuscript of Etude No. 5, held by the Yale University Library, is dated 1929, France, and is dedicated to Andrés Segovia (Villa-Lobos, sua obra 2009).

Structure

The piece is in C major and is marked Andantino (Santos 1985, 24).

Analysis

Étude No. 5 is a contrapuntal study. The deliberately monotonous accompaniment in broken thirds contrasts with the melody, played on the treble strings (Santos 1985, 24)

gollark: Joke's on you, that's still a product of prime numbers.
gollark: Did you know? Our bees are representing you as a product of prime numbers as we speak.
gollark: Fascinating. Maybe it treats me not defining a cloak mask thing as denying it. How strange.
gollark: As far as I can tell it was *always* available.
gollark: Define the type and have it automatically write it out.

References
  • Santos, Turibio. 1985. Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, translated by Victoria Ford and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry: Wise Owl Music.
  • Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 2009. Version 1.0. MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos. Based on the third edition, 1989.

Further reading
  • 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).
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.