Dança brasileira
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1922
- Publisher
- Musica Brasilis (free edition by José Staneck from the manuscript MS G-VI-11, Biblioteca Alberto Nepomuceno, UFRJ; CC BY-SA; ISMN 979-0-802306-59-2)
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About this piece
Luciano Gallet wrote Dança brasileira in 1922, the year he became conductor of the choir and orchestra of the Instituto Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro. José Staneck edited it for Musica Brasilis from the manuscript in the Biblioteca Alberto Nepomuceno at UFRJ. The piano opens alone, 'suave, bem ritmado', and the cello answers with plucked chords before taking up an elegant Moderato comodo tune. Later come a sul ponticello tremolo passage, a 'muito cantado' melody high in the treble clef, quick staccato sixteenth notes marked 'animando', and a pesante ending in octaves and double stops.
Technical overview
Mostly in 4/4 with brief passages in 2/4 and 3/4 and many tempo changes (cedendo, animando, Largamente, Lento). The part moves between bass and treble clef up to the G just above the treble staff, with pizzicato chords, measured sul ponticello tremolo, long runs of staccato sixteenths in the upper positions, sixths and octaves, dotted rhythms, accented down-bows and a fortissimo closing chord.
Technical focus
- Chords
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dotted Rhythms
- Double Stops
- Marcato
- Meter Changes
- Octaves
- Pizzicato
- Shifting
- Spiccato
- Sul Ponticello
- Tempo Changes
- Thumb Position
- Treble Clef
- Tremolo