A “comunicabilidade” de música (1944) para flauta e piano de césar guerra peixe

Abstract

This paper is an analysis of Música (1944), for flute and piano, composed by Brazilian composer César Guerra Peixe. Its aims to identify the presence of “communicability” elements, as it was defined by the composer in his Memorial. The piece is structured, mainly, through the repetition of motifs and “arguments” as well as the relief/tension dualism. These devices are employed in a tonally-oriented way. The dimension of sections and parts and the location of climactic points follow, approximately, the Golden Section. Rhythm receives a pointillistic treatment. The twelve-tone row is used in an unorthodox way and there is recurrence of pitchclass sets. “Communicability” is favoured by the use of structural resources that are analogous to those employed in tonal idiom.
Keywords: Guerra Peixe; Atonalism; Twelve-tone composition; Brazilian chamber music; Flute and piano; Musical analysis.