The Música Antiga group, from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), presents this Sunday (16th), at 10:30 am, an Iberian music concert that highlights the poetic work of the Portuguese writer Luís Vaz de Camões. The concert will be held at Cine Arte UFF, in Icaraí, Niterói, metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. Tickets have a single value of R$ 15. Specialist in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, the group Música Antiga of UFF was created in 1982, initially with nine musicians who ended up being hired, in 1984, as employees by the university. Over the years, many of the members retired, leaving the group with five musicians. In 2018, two vacancies were opened and, in 2019, one more. The public tender then promoted by the institution, in December 2019, approved three musicians who joined the group, currently composed of five musicians. Last year, after the covid-19 pandemic, the group returned to rehearsing and playing in person, and promoted a concert commemorating the 40th anniversary of Música Antiga at the UFF theater, to which retired musicians from the group were invited. In its 40 years of existence, Música Antiga da UFF seeks to recreate the sound of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, bringing to the spectator the songs and the fascination of the stories that make up its rich repertoires, and also transmitting not only the music, but the context history and culture of those times. The group has been acting throughout its history in the consolidation of teaching, research and extension, carrying out work of audience formation and connection of the university with society. The five members are Cecilia Aprigliano, Leandro Mendes, Mario Orlando, Rosimary Parra and Sônia Leal Wegenast. UFF’s Música Antiga Group currently has five members – Press Release Leandro Mendes informed Agência Brasil that the instruments played by the group include recorders, archway (medieval instrument predecessor of the violin), percussion, harp, viola da gamba (instrument that emerged around 1400s, predecessor of the cello), lute and vihuela (hand guitar). Leandro Mendes and Sônia Leal Wegenast sing solo and all join in the chorus. Camões The concert program includes 15 Portuguese Renaissance songs, involving poems by the Portuguese poet Camões that were set to music, in addition to songs that would have verses by the poet or, even, music by composers of the same period. The theme was suggested by Mario Orlando, who is doing his doctorate and had Camões’ poetry as one of his subjects. ”He made a survey of the songs of that time that would have poems by Camões. As there weren’t many songs, we filled [o repertório] with composers from the same period, such as Luys Milan and anonymous composers. Because we use a lot of Renaissance songbooks that have anonymous songs, including the Cancioneiro de Paris, Cancioneiro do Palácio, Cancioneiro D’Elvas, Cancioneiro de Belém, which is Portuguese. We also used songs by Antonio de Cabezón, who was a composer at the time, among others,” said Leandro Mendes. Among the songs sung that have poems by Camões, highlight is Minina dos Olhos Verdes, Foyse Gastamdo a Esperança, Señora bem Poderey, Vida da Mynha Alma, all written in Portuguese and archaic Castilian, explained Mendes. The Portuguese poet lived between 1524 and 1580 and had his poetry set to music in several pieces found in Iberian songbooks. In Camões’ poetry, roundels are created based on a motto. In the instrumental music of the 16th century, new melodic elaborations can be seen from an already known musical structure, originating from vocal music or dance. Check the full program here.
Agência Brasil
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