Romanesca in Movement: a Walking Schema

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v10i1.31581

Keywords:

romanesca, counterpoint, galant style, music, schema

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the change in position of the use of the counterpoint schema entitled Romanesca, throughout the 18th century. The way of its use goes from a thematic opening procedure to different positions in the structure of the instrumental and vocal repertoire. Apparently, its recurrence, especially in the latter case, suggests musical topic implications that gradually removed the strong connotation of a musical opening formula, belonging to the 18th century repertoire, the so-called Gallant Style, as presented and explained by Robert Gjerdingen. The paper focuses on the verification of this variability of use and suggests that in the process of maturation of its use, Romanesca may have been an expedient of syntactic construction with direction to different meanings, according to the creative project in which it was inserted. 

* Research funding: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas – FAPEAM.

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Author Biographies

Márcio Leonel Farias Reis Páscoa, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA)

Márcio Leonel Farias Reis Páscoa is Associate Professor at the University of the State of Amazonas, he teaches classes and supervise students in the Music graduate program and Letters and Arts Master’s degree program. He is the head of the Laboratory of Musicology and Cultural History in UEA. He conducts the Amazonas Baroque Orchestra, with which he recorded five albums and performed dozens of concerts in Brazil and abroad. He is Graduated in Music and have a Master’s degree from the Institute of Arts of Universidade Estadual Paulista – Unesp, as well as a PhD in Musical Sciences from the University of Coimbra. He was postdoctoral researcher at Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Unicamp, having been a Capes (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior ) scholarship holder. He is the author of several books, chapters and articles in scientific journals and specialized magazines, as well as entries in dictionaries.

Mario Marques Trilha Neto, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA)

In 1995, Mario Marques Trilha Neto obtained the Diploma in Music (Piano) at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). In 1999, he concluded the Master’s degree in Performance (Künstlerisches Aufbaustudium), specialising in Harpsichord at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Between 1998 and 2000 he attended the “Supérieur” Course of Harpsichord Conservatoire National de Region of Rueil-Malmaison (Paris, France). Further studies were done at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland in 2003. Post-graduate studies in Theory of Early Music were completed in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2004. In 2011 he obtained a Doctor degree of Music at the University of Aveiro. Beetween 2012/2014 he was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, CESEM – University of Lisbon. Since 2015 he is Adjunct Professor at Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA). As well, he has given several solo recitals and performed with the various orchestras and ensembles in South and North America and Europe.

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Published

17-05-2023 — Updated on 03-06-2023

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PÁSCOA, M. L. F. R.; TRILHA NETO, M. M. Romanesca in Movement: a Walking Schema. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 1, 2023. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v10i1.31581. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/31581. Acesso em: 21 dec. 2024.

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Dossier: Theories, Poetics and Practices of Early Music