The present study focuses on the path taken by the viola caipira in Brazil, since its arrival with the Portuguese settlers until current days. We focus on verifying the affirmation of the musician Fernando Deghi: “This ...

A viola é um instrumento que veio ao Brasil com as primeiras levas de colonizadores e jesuítas. Utilizado como ferramenta na catequese, esse instrumento, aos poucos, foi ganhando a cara da nova terra nas mãos de bandeirantes, ...

Written in 2009, the contemporary studies Viola Spaces, from composer and violist Garth Knox, arise in response to the gap in didactic teaching extended techniques. In his performance note, the author suggests that certain ...

This work is aimed at providing an interpretive study of the work for viola and piano titled Three Pieces, and work for solo viola titled Ticket of a Jogral, by Brazilian composer César Guerra Peixe. This study will be ...

A tese analisa a música de viola brasileira contemporânea em uma abordagem comunicacional e estética. Desenvolve articulações entre a ideia de uma cena musical da viola na atualidade com os conceitos de mediações ...

Viola Gopaul-Whittington, born in 1924 in Arouca, was a descendant of African and Indian antecedents. She claimed that the marriage of her great-grand-patents was the first of its kind between an Indian and an African in ...