O mar mítico e sonante de Caymmi

Abstract

Regarding to the discussions that surround literature and music, this work aims to analyze the songs "O Mar" and "Sargaço Mar", produced in the context of the socalled canções praieiras, or songs of the sea, one of the main works of the singer and composer from Bahia, Dorival Caymmi. For the accomplishment of this work, some resources of literary analysis and, above all, elements related to the music were used, with the objective of respect the link between lyrics and melody, taking into account the differences between poetry and music. Thus, in consonance with the literary analysis, it is of great importance to verify how some elements inherent to the musical area can contribute to accentuate even more the lyrical elements expressed in the lyrics of the song studied in this work. The theoretical main base used is related to some concepts proposed by Luiz Tatit in the area of Semiótica da Canção, such as passionalization, figurativization and thematization, and the hermeneuticsemiological method proposed by Phillip Tagg, such as aspect of time and dynamic aspects will be taken into account to consider the song as a unit.In the song "O Mar", it will be identified how Caymmi conceives and constructs the figure of the sea, as well as how he portrayed those who live by the sea. In "Sargaço Mar", the investigation focuses on establishing the relation between the sea and the Goddes Iemanjá, her importance in the culture of the people who live by the sea, as well as the representation that Caymmi created of the figure of the fisherman. In both songs it was possible to verify a cyclical movement, both in the linguistic and musical parts. In the first song, the circular movement was associated with the figure of the sea, while in the second song, it was associatedin to the relation between the culture of the fishermen and the figure of Iemanjá.