Administrando a festa: música e iluminismo no Brasil colonial / Administrando a festa: música e iluminismo no Brasil colonial

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2008

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The thesis is based on the idea of innate idiosyncrasy of Illuminism and its relation to the changes in the meaning of music, not only in relation to the language structures, but also in the processes of its reception in the 18th century. In Brazil, the process was increased as the intense social movement concealed a complex field of conflict which did not unify univocal senses of comprehension to Illuminism, not even in relation to the stimulus which came from Portugal. The aim is to show how Illuminism influenced the esthetic field retroacting with distinct configuration in the struggle for power between the public spheres (Church and State), and their relations to the show of power to operate the assertion of ideological structures. The used methodology answers exactly the subtlety of Illuminism demonstration in the poetical and esthetic enjoyment of colonial music. In addition to how they were used to spread the idea of a changing society. In this way, we established our studies through the Administrative History of Brazil as a resulting phenomenon of a history of ideas. As a result, we could observe that in the Portuguese imperial system of the beginning of the 18th century, the administration of music was restrictive to negotiation processes in the private space of Patronage. In the administrative system of Enlightenment Despotism, the State and the Church were not the only negotiation front in which adjustment were made to the network of power representation. From the second part of the 18th century on, the bourgeoisie, which had become the focal point of consent of the system of currency that was being established, became the third way to represent and accomplish the show of power enlarging and, little by little, getting free from the control of the two strong powers (Church and State). The art administration, represented by enterprises such as opera houses or the parties directed by music masters, changed considerably the focal point of fixing the artistic patterns, now under the aegis of uncharted influence. All this process determined the predominance of vocal music. It is upheld in the pedagogical ideal of Illuminism that dramatizes life by art, always with the intention to introduce the virtue citizen related to the apology of established power. Besides, this ideal had been unified with such magnitude in the western culture that it went beyond the limits of the 18th century and became canonical until these days when we still think and discuss about what would be good or bad music.

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colonial music history musicology música e ideologia iluminismo música brasileira illuminism brazilian music musicologia histórica music and ideology música colonial

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