A “Viola quebrada” e a doce música: entre o Mário de Andrade cantor e o teórico

: entre o Mário de Andrade cantor e o teórico

Abstract

This work is about associate the musicologist and practical man Mário de Andrade – the theoretical and musician, the writer and singer. Through these two possibilities, that complement each other, Mário de Andrade has established himself as the greatest scholar and connoisseur of Brazilian music and, with relative recent discoveries, also a singer who demonstrated in practice what he was thinking in theory. His singing and writings on the practice of national singing were largely based on the figure of the embolador Chico Antônio, who synthesized, in singing, what Mário de Andrade professed in his bibliography. Our quest consists of decoding this contemporary Brazilian singing, supported by relevant and consecrated studies on the subject, and by listening to Mário de Andrade and Chico Antônio, tracing an outline of what would be the ideal of Brazilian singing in concert music today. The results were to verify that nasality, rhetorical dexterity, improvisation and joyfulness are still present in the daily lives of current embolada and modinhas singers, and how Mário de Andrade left a legacy with a close connection with the multifaceted ethnic singing of the different “Brazils” of all regions of the mainland country.