Soundscape Of Vila Boa´s Holy Week (19th Century)

Abstract

This article is a result of sounds inquiry inferred from a wide range of documentation concerning Vila Boa’s Holy Week celebrations during the 19th century (chronicle, newspapers, travelers’ stories, lithograph, manuscript and others sources, as well as sounds past residues still presents in the current celebrations). The proposal was to transform the sonorities emerged from different supports in potency able to make possible a historical narrative for the way of the sonorous one. Thus, based on Murray Schafer, the research intended to reconstruct Passion’s “soundscape” over the time frame previously mentioned, showing a festive space whose sound effervescence denies the mythical “sepulchral silence” that many related the old time Passions.
Keywords: Soundscape; Cultural History; Goiás City; Holy Week.