Babi de Oliveira: recortes da vida, da obra e catalogação de suas composições para canto e piano

Abstract

Brazil is a country known for its cultural diversity, vastness and regional differences, specifically its music. Thus, preserving our heritage becomes a priority so as not to neglect our heritage. Given the variety of Brazilian composers research is fundamental to evaluate and maintain the musical heritage of our country. The research will focus on analyzing and drawing attention to the little known compositions of Babi de Oliveira. On the part of the researcher there is an interest in providing access to the work of BABI DE OLIVEIRA for voice and piano, becoming an incentive to pursue this research project. The research project will therefore provide a corpus of songs for voice and piano, organizing and selecting the musical scores. A survey of coauthors, performers of her songs will also be conducted. In addition, her daughters were interviewed, newspaper articles of the era were reviewed, as well as comments of the composer herself were analyzed; scholars and performances of her songs on high-density video discs (DVD), and internet research and musicology bibliography were also researched. Based on the information obtained the researcher presents the life and work of the composer from a human interest perspective. In conclusion, BABI DE OLIVEIRA s songs for voice and piano found were listed and final remarks presented.