The present article offers an analysis of the musical gestures and intervallic configurations of the composition Vastidão [Vastness], which belongs to the set entitled Seis Pequenos Quadros [Six Small Pictures] (1981) for piano by Brazilian composer Bruno Kiefer. The recurring musical gestures from other of Kiefer's compositions, previously surveyed by Luciane CARDASSI (1998), as well as the presence of octatonic elements, are studied and related to preceding Kiefer's works. Set theory by Allan Forte is applied here as a theoretical basis. The density of the gestures observed in this late piece, and its brevity, point to a stylistic synthesis.
Bruno Kiefer; musical gestures; set theory; analysis
