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For more information, please contact [email protected] FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY THE BRAZILIAN COMPOSER SÉRGIO ASSAD By João Paulo Figueirôa da Cruz A Treatise submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2008 Copyright © 2008 João Paulo Figueirôa da Cruz All Rights Reserved The members of the Committee approve the treatise of João Paulo Figueirôa da Cruz defended on June 17, 2008. ______________________________________ Evan Jones Professor Directing Treatise ______________________________________ James Mathes Outside Committee Member ______________________________________ Bruce Holzman Committee Member The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee member ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation would have not been possible without the support of many individuals who helped this project. I would like to thank Hanh Hoang for her assistance in the concretization of this document and Byron Fogo for his kindness to offer his help in this project. I do not have words to express my gratitude to all my committee members. I want to thank Dr. Jones for his devotion and wisdom directing this work, Dr. Mathes for agreeing to join the committee at the last minute, Dr. Olsen for his help and support during the years and finally Prof. Holzman for all these years which he gave his best to me! I would like to thank Fábio Zanon, Luciano César Morais and Thiago Oliveira for offering important research material for this project. I also would like to express my gratitude to Sérgio Assad who has helped me from the beginning when everything was only an idea. Many thanks to my family for believing in my dreams, my in laws for their support and to my wife, Silvia Figueirôa, for her patience and firm devotion Most of all, I would like to thank God for allowing me to make music playing one fascinating instrument, the guitar, and to have this as my profession. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Musical Examples....................................................................................................v List of Figures....................................................................................................................vii Abstract.............................................................................................................................viii Chapter 1 – A Brief Historical Panorama of Guitar In Brazil During The Twentieth Century Until Sérgio Assad …………...………………………………………………….1 Chapter 2 – Sérgio Assad ………………………………………………………………..20 Chapter 3 – Annotations of Sérgio Assad’s Compositions ……………………………...49 Appendix A – A list of Sérgio Assad’s Arrangements..............................................................................73 Appendix B – A List of Sérgio Assad’s Discography…………………………………...........................93 Appendix C – List of Periodicals Featuring Sérgio Assad………………………………………………98 Appendix D – Permission ……………………..…………….…………………………………………102 Bibliography....................................................................................................................103 Biographical Sketch...............................................................................................................................107 iv LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES 1: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Choros no. 1, mm. 1-2.......................................................................................3 2: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Choros no. 1, mm. 11-13...................................................................................4 3: Heitor Villa-Lobos guitar Etude no. 1, mm.15-20.............................................................................8 4: João Pernambuco, Jongo, mm. 12-17................................................................................................9 5: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Prelude no.5, mm.1...........................................................................................9 6: João Pernambuco , Sonho de Magia, mm.1.......................................................................................9 7: Garoto, Jorge do Fusa, mm. 1-3......................................................................................................15 8: Garoto, Jorge do Fusa, mm. 8.........................................................................................................15 9: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Divertimento, mm. 1...............................................................................33 10: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Divertimento, mm. 72-74......................................................................33 11: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Divertimento, mm. 72-74 (second plan)...............................................33 12: Sérgio Assad, Sérgio Assad, Fantasia Carioca, mm.1.................................................................34 13: Sérgio Assad, Jobiniana no. 3, mm. 13-20....................................................................................35 14: Sérgio Assad, Fantasia Carioca, mm.182-189.............................................................................35 15. Sérgio Assad, Suite Brasileira, Baião, mm. 65-75........................................................................36 16: Radamés Gnatalli, Suite Retratos pour two Guitares, Pixiguinha, mm. 40-47. ....…........……...36 17: E Major Mixolydian ……………………………………………………………………………..37 18: Sérgio Assad, Três Cenas Brasileiras, Recife dos Corais, mm. 13-18.…….....………………...37 19: Sérgio Assad, Jobiniana no. 3, mm. 34-36....................................................................................37 20: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Desafinado, mm. 1-4................................................................................38 21: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Preludio e Toccatina, mm. 134-136......................................................38 22: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Choros no. 1, mm. 1-2...................................................................................38 23: Sérgio Assad, Sonata, I- Allegro Moderato, mm. 151..................................................................38 24: Leo Brouwer, Sonata, III- La Toccata de Pasquin, mm. 52..........................................................38 25: Sérgio Assad, Jobiniana no. 3, mm. 152.......................................................................................39 26: Sérgio Assad, Jobiniana no. 3, mm. 1-3........................................................................................39 27: Sérgio Assad, Summer Garden, Opening, mm. 1-3…………………...........................................40 28: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Divertimento, mm. 97-99......................................................................40 v 29: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Preludio e Toccatina, mm. 23-24..........................................................40 30: Sérgio Assad, Aquarelle, Preludio e Toccatina, mm. 23-24 (Second plan)..................................41 31: The Brazilian Baião………………………………………..................................................................41 32: Sérgio Assad, Fantasia Carioca, mm 110-112.............................................................................42 33: Fantasia Carioca, internal rhythm structure…………….............................................................42 34: Sérgio Assad, Tres Cenas Brasileiras, Recife dos Corais, mm. 13-18 (Second guitar)……........42 35: Sérgio Assad, Sonata, Andante, mm. 33-36..................................................................................43 36: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, II- Pi, mm. 1-8………………………..................................43 37: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, II- Pi, mm. 20-27.…..............................................................44 38: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, III- Sigma, mm. 1-3..............................................................44 39: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, I- Psi, mm. 30-32……..........................................................45 40: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, I- Psi, mm. 33-34…………………………………………..45 41: Sérgio Assad, Three Greek Letters, I- Psi, mm. 35-41……………................................................45 42: Sérgio Assad, Jobiniana no. 3, mm. 40-42....................................................................................46 43: Sérgio Assad, Summer Garden, XXII- Butterflies. ……………..................................................47 44: Antônio Carlos Jobim, Águas de Março, mm. 1-3……................................................................52 vi LIST OF FIGURES 1: The program of Barrios’s concert in São Paulo dated from August 1st, 1916...………………..6 2: Rio de Janeiro, 1929. Agustin Barrios in the center, João Pernambuco standing on Barrios’s right and Quincas Laranjaeiras........................................................................................................8 3: From left to right: Sérgio Assad, Jorge Assad and Odair Assad (1968)…………….………...21 4: From left to right: Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad (1969)………………………….…………23 vii ABSTRACT Sérgio Assad (b.1956) and his brother, Odair Assad, are considered today one of the most important guitar duos in the world. Sérgio Assad’s compositions and