Prelúdio nº 3 by Heitor Villa-Lobos: considerations on the interpretative process

This study presents an interpretation of the guitar solo piece Prelúdio nº 3 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The analytic process is based on concepts like historically informed performance (WALLS, 2002) and informed intuition (RINK, 2007), beyond other authors. The case study presented here has the intuition and musical understanding reinforced by aesthetic and stylistic aspects. Primarily, attention is paid to harmonic and ornamental characteristics (aesthetic and stylistic elements); secondly, an analysis of the piece based on parameters such as the formal plan, temporality and dynamic (RINK, 2007), and groupings (JACKENDOFF; LERDAHL, 1983) is presented.

Clasical Guitar; Villa-Lobos; Prelúdio nº3; Performance practice