Kilza Setti
Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (born January 26, 1932 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a Brazilian composer , music ethnologist and social anthropologist .
biography
Kilza Setti completed a piano degree at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo . After graduation and a few semesters of journalism, she received a scholarship from the São Paulo Conservatory for Theater and Music to study composition and counterpoint under Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993), one of Brazil's most important composers.
In 1967 she received a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for musicological research in Portuguese villages. Here she researched the origins and further development of the musical repertoire of the Brazilian southeast.
In the 1970s she received prizes for ten of her compositions, including first prize in the composition competition Das Brasilianisches Lied .
In 1982 she received her doctorate in social anthropology from the University of São Paulo. Kilza Setti explored the music of the Caiçara -Fischer (European- and indianischstämmige residents of the southeast coast of Brazil) and the ritual music of the Guarani - Mbyá -Indianer from the state of São Paulo and the Timbira -Indianer from Central Brazil. She is the initiator and director of the musical sound archive project of the Timbira Indian and the coordinator of projects for Indian education.
Kilza Setti's compositional work includes vocal choir and chamber music, but also works for instrumental ensembles and orchestras. Her research on the music of Brazilian Indian peoples has influenced her works.
Setti is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music - Columbia University , the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea, the Sociedade Brasileira de Antropologia da Música (founding member), the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte, the Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia, the Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Música (founding member), editorial board of the magazine African Music - Rhodes University , South Africa . She is also a member of the Centro de Estudos Americanos Fernando Pessoa , the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte - Universidade de São Paulo - (founding member) and the board and advisory board for ethnology of the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista de São Paulo. She holds a visiting professorship at the Federal University of Bahia . Setti is an elected member of the Academia Brasileira de Música , chair 9.
Compositions
| year | title | Text / instruments |
|---|---|---|
| Works for voice and piano | ||
| 1955 | Os olhos do meu benzinho | Gustavo Barroso |
| 1957 | Distâncias | Alice Camargo Guamieri |
| 1958 | Raro dom | Suzanna de Campos |
| 1959 | Você gosta de mim | Cassiano Ricardo |
| 1960 | Cantiga | Manuel Bandeira |
| 1961 | A estrela | Manuel Bandeira |
| 1961 | Três lembranças do folclore infantil | "Cantos populares do Brasil" by Sílvio Homero |
| 1961 | Trova de muito amor para um amado senhor | Hilda Hilst |
| 1962 | Dois poemas de Geir Campos | Geir Campos |
| 1962 | Cantorias Paulistas | according to oral tradition, recorded by the composer |
| 1962 | Poesia da tua luz | Rossini Camargo Guarnieri |
| 1963 | Na palma da mão uma estrela | Sérgio Ricardo Tavares de Lima |
| 1965 | Serenata | Vicente de Carvalho |
| 2000 | Singing landscapes | Song cycle based on seven poems by Margret Hölle |
| 2002 | Três canções | Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
| 2004 | Obialá Korô | afro-brazilian theme |
| 2004 | Yemanjá Otô | afro-brazilian theme |
| 2005 | Tempo vocalizados | |
| Works for voice and accompaniment | ||
| 1958 | Quatro canções | |
| 1993 | Oreru ñamandu ete tenondeguá - Preces mbyá- guarani | |
| 1995 | Hõkrepoi | Words from the ritualistic chants of the Krahô Indians |
| 1998 | Ave Maria | |
| 1998 | Suíte Cantante para seis trabalhos de amor | Luís Milanesi |
| 1999 | Imagens sobre Dreamtime Poem | Michelle Coulthard |
| 2000 | Memória (Valsinha do inútil) | Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
| 2001 | Ofertório | |
| 2002 | Acre-noturno | Mario de Andrade |
| 2004 | Mosaicos sulamericanos | Song cycle |
| Works for choir a cappella | ||
| 1958 | Dois corais mistos: Obialá Korô, Yemanjá Otô | Themes from the Candomblés Gege and Kêto |
| 1959 | Balada do rei das sereias | Manuel Bandeira |
| 1973 | Poesia II | José Gomes Ferreira |
| 1982 | Canoa em dois tempos | popular texts recorded by the composer |
| 1982 | Ser | Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
| 1982 | Memória | Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
| Choir and instruments | ||
| 1962 | Lenda do céu | SATB and percussion |
| 1972 | Lundu | SATB and string quartet |
| 1973 | Jogo da Condessa | SABT and percussion |
| 1990 | Missa Caiçara | |
| Works for solo instruments | ||
| 1955 | Toada | piano |
| 1958 | Be peças em clave de Sol | piano |
| 1958 | Valsa | piano |
| 1958 | Oito variações para piano (sobre um tema popular) | piano |
| 1959 | Interlúdio (Em memória de Joaquim Carlos Nobre) | piano |
| 1960 | À moda do Gonzaga | piano |
| 1960 | Suíte para piano: Ciranda, Samba-lenço, Valsa, Lundu | piano |
| 1960 | Series for piano | piano |
| 1972 | Dois momentos | recorder |
| 1972 | Duas peças: 1 - Canto de Yemanjá, 2 - Canto de Erê | piano |
| 1987 | Multisarabanda (em homenagem a Camargo Guarnieri) | piano |
| 2005 | XIV Estação da Via Sacra “Jesus é sepultado” | piano |
| Orchestral works | ||
| 1958 | Toada | orchestra |
| 1961 | Suite | String orchestra, píccolo, flute, clarinet |
| 1966 | Folgança | Suite for orchestra |
| 1999 | Meditação sobre o Tietê | Soloists, choir and orchestra |
| other works | ||
| 1957 | Seis variações | String quartet |
| 1959 | Cantilena | Clarinet and piano |
| 1973 | Dois momentos | Recorder and piano |
| 1976 | Fragmentações | SATB, piano and percussion |
| 1978 | Rito e jogo: dois estudos para percussão | Percussion |
| 1983 | Conversainvento | Bassoon and piano |
| 1999 | Gabby Gwynne | Clarinet, guitar, trombone, bassoon, afoxé , cuíca |
| 1999 | Crying for the death of Truganini | Oboe, horn and piano |
Publications
- Ubatuba nos Cantos das Praias, 1985
- Amjëkin, music of the Timbira peoples: 3 CDs about Indian music
Participation in international publications
- The Universe of Music: a history - UNESCO
- The musical cultures of the Brazilian Indians, 1997
- Caminhos musicais entre Portugal e Brasil, música tradicional portuguesa
- Música caiçara e de derivação africana, Notes on caiçara musical production
- Sistemas musicais dos Índios Mbyá-Guarani de SP e dos Timbira do MA e TO
literature
- Voices of the Green Hell. Disenchanted Amazonia. Apollon Foundation, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-00-012238-9
Web links
- Kilza Setti on the Duo Brasileiro website
- Kilza Setti on the website Pró-Música Ûberlandia (search for name there)
- Irati Antonio: Setti (de Castro Lima), Kilza. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kilza Setti on the ABM website. Retrieved November 1, 2017 (Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Setti, Kilza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Setti de Castro Lima, Kilza (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo , Brazil |