Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul (Ilas Special Publication)
The World of Villa-Lobos in Pictures and Documents
Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Life (1887-1959)
by David P. Appleby
from The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Heitor Villa-Lobos was the most famous, and charismatic twentieth century Brazilian composer. This book, based on the composer's private papers and correspondence, describes the gradual development from his first struggles to world wide recognition of the individuality of his compositions and his influence on the generation of musicians and composers of the late twentieth and twenty first century. Essential reading for anyone who has ever succumbed to the magic and power of Villa-Lobos's music and to anyone interested in the arts of Brazil over the last century.
Villa-Lobos: Musicien et poete du Bresil (Serie Essai)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Life and Works, 1887-1959
Heitor Villa-Lobos was perhaps the greatest of Brazilian composers. He wrote music for voice, guitar and piano, as well as chamber pieces, concertos, and orchestral and operatic works. This book, a revision of a work first published in Finland, concentrates on his compositions, with many analyzed in depth.
Villa-Lobos: Collected Studies by L.M. Peppercorn
Heitor Villa Lobos
The chamber works for wind ensembles by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Tradicao e renovacao na musica brasileira
Villa-Lobos (Oxford Studies of Composers)
The music of the prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) typifies Brazil, in its diversity, spirit of racial amalgam, and awesome beauty. Through the sheer quantity of his output, his original use of folkloric material, and the striking accessibility of his scores, Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time. This book provides an introduction to his music, and by focusing attention on important or unusual works from his large oeuvre, charts Villa-Lobos's own often anguished musical journey through the Brazilian landscape. Jungle, grasslands, river, city, and ocean all find a legitimate place in his aural mosaic of Brazil, but as he approached death his music assumed a deep spiritual quality of peace and resignation. His personal journey of discovery and fulfillment is clearly explained, set against the pervasive backdrop of social and political upheaval which characterized Brazil during Villa-Lobos's lifetime.
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