Volume 13
Ruy Brasileiro Borges - Já disse, ora!

Short Review


Capa Volume 13

Ruy Brasileiro´s “I told you, dammit!” won the “Audience´s Award” at the 2nd National Composition Competition of the "UFBA New Music Ensemble” (1976).

Considering that the composer began his musical studies in 1972 and majored in Composition in 1984 (UNICAMP), we can say that this is the composer´s “premier work”, whose aesthetic conception immediately conquered the public´s admiration. The piece´s experimental character and the liberation from melody and tonality are aspects pointed out by Damiano Cozzela at the time, who recognized in the nonsense of its title an implicit critic to “music´s traditional stuff”.

In his analysis of this piece, Didier Guigue calls attention to the sounding aggressiveness, which is relatively rare in instrumental formations of this type (mixed ensemble), and to the non-sophisticated use of the compositional media. This can be seen in: the abolition of the cause and effect relationships in the musical discourse as well as in the use of the simple and bare pulse, regularly repeated to exhaustion, being practically the only element of the work or its master characteristic. Considering the piece´s aesthetic as an example of "arte povera" and recognizing in it a glimpse of the marginal and rebel rock n´ roll, Guigue also notices the composer´s anti-conformist and anti-academic posture, a kick in the rigors of erudition, clearly expressed in the title of the piece.

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