Prelude No. 5 is a
guitar piece written by Brazilian composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the ...
.
The piece is subtitled "Homenagem à vida social" (Homage to Social Life), is in the key of
D major, marked "Poco animato", and is the second of the Five Preludes, written in 1940. The others are in
E minor,
E major
E major (or the key of E) is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps. Its relative minor is C-sharp minor and its parallel minor is E minor. Its enharmonic equivalent, ...
,
A minor
A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major and its parallel major is A major.
The A natural minor scale is:
:
Changes ...
, and
E minor. It was first performed, together with its four companions, by
Abel Carlevaro
Abel Carlevaro (16 December 1916 – 17 July 2001) was a classical guitar composer and teacher born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He established a new school of instrumental technique, incorporating a fresh approach to seating and playing the guitar, ...
in Montevideo on 11 December 1943.
Written in meter, this prelude evokes the waltzes danced by the upper classes of Rio de Janeiro in a bygone age.
__NOTOC__
References
Sources
*
*
Further reading
* Appleby, David P. 1988. ''Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography'' New York: Greenwood Press. .
*
Santos, Turíbio. 1985. ''Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar'', translated by Victoria Forde and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry, Co. Cork: Wise Owl Music.
* Wright, Simon. 1992. ''Villa-Lobos''. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (cloth); (pbk).
External links
*
{{Portal bar, Classical music
Guitar compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos
1940 compositions
Villa
Compositions in D major