- Guarnieri composed this dance for piano in 1928.1 It is sometimes spelled Dansa brasileira and sometimes Dança brasileira.
- Guarnieri later arranged this dance and two others in his set Three Dances for Orchestra, published in 1949.
- This work was inspired by street celebrations in Tietê, São Paulo, commemorating the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil.2
- This dance makes use of the folk version of the samba, as danced by descendants of enslaved African-Brazilians.3
Sources
- Gerard Béhague, “Guarnieri, (Mozart) Camargo,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed June 24, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011904.
- James Melo, liner notes to Camargo Guarnieri: Piano Works, Max Barros, Naxos 8.572626-27, CD, 2003.
- Ibid.
Cut IDs
18038