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Esboço de Ipanema : for Viola and Pianoforte No. 486 / Andrián Pertout.
Library shelf no. 787.3/PER 3 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
'Esboço de Ipanema' or 'Sketch of Ipanema' was commissioned by Emlyn Stam (Den Haag, The Netherlands) and Sherry Grant (Auckland, New Zealand) for performance at the 49th International Viola Congress, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 17-21 July, 2024, and represents a Hommage à Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994). The work serves as a tribute to Brazilian composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim ("considered one of the great exponents of Brazilian music" and the 'father of bossa nova') and adopts an algorithmic re-composition (employing a set of algorithms, or automatons to develop the melodic and rhythmic elements) of his iconic 1962 Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema). "Jobim internationalized bossa nova and, with the help of important American artists, merged it with jazz in the 1960s to create a new sound, with popular success," and today Garota de Ipanema (featuring lyrcis by Brazilian poet, diplomat, lyricist, essayist, musician, singer, and playwright Vinícius de Moraes) is "believed to be the second-most recorded pop song in history, after Yesterday by The Beatles. 'Esboço de Ipanema' presents a musical abstraction of the original tune, and in accord with the ideals of abstract art its general aims of reproducing an illusion of visible reality, the work juxtaposes a fragmented melody adorned by an altered and therefore now subsidiary harmonic sequence that frame moto perpetuo-infused ostinatos within a rhythmic sequence developed around repeating yet contrasting ABA arch-form structures of rhythmic density.
Work Details
Year: 2023
Instrumentation: Viola, pianoforte.
Duration: 8 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Dedication note: Hommage à Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927-1994)
Commission note: vCommissioned by Emlyn Stam (Den Haag, The Netherlands) and Sherry Grant (Auckland, New Zealand) for performance at the 49th International Viola Congress, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 17-21 July, 2024
First performance: 17 Jul 24. 49th International Viola Congress, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Performances of this work
17 Jul 24: 49th International Viola Congress, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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