Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 4 ("de acordes repetidos"), part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.
Structure edit
The piece shows the influence of folk guitar music, is in G major, and is marked Un peu modéré (Santos 1985, 23).
Analysis edit
Étude No. 4 is a chord study, but does not employ all of the harmonic and polyphonic resources of the instrument (Santos 1985, 23).
References edit
Cited sources edit
- Santos, Turibio. 1985. Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, translated by Victoria Ford and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry: Wise Owl Music.
Further reading edit
- Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 1989. Third edition. Rio de Janeiro: MinC-SPHAN/Pró-Memória, Museu Villa-Lobos. Online edition, 2009
- Wright, Simon. 1992. Villa-Lobos. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315476-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-315475-7 (pbk).