First part of the article resulting from my Master's Thesis, which deals with the musical representation of Brazilian Indians in Villa-Lobos's music. In this first part, I discuss melodic and harmonic aspects of what I call "indian style". What musical means the composer uses to evoke the figure of the Indians on the memory and sensibility of his audience? Is there a specific collection of recurring musical procedures to portray his ideas of savageness? I argue that Villa-Lobos has a particular way of composing when he deals with the indian/savage thematic on his work, a specific set of his oeuvre: his 'indian style".
indian style in Villa-Lobos; musical analysis and meaning; modernism and primitivism in music
