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The Brazilian Art Song Anthology presents 25 art songs for voice and piano composed within a span of about one hundred and fifty years, between 1800 and 1950 approximately. The album provides the phonetic transcription of sung Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and the translation into English. The main objective of the phonetic transcription is to indicate the pronunciation of the language for speakers of other languages. It also helps with lyric diction, bringing attention to the points of articulation and sound production in the vocal tract and promoting the standardization of phoneme emission. The translation of the collection into English facilitates the foreign reader's understanding of the album's proposal and the textual content of the songs. We chose to maintain the musical terms in the scores used by the composer. A glossary is provided with definitions of musical and Brazilian Portuguese terms which are used throughout the text and in the poems.

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"From the Journal of Singing: ""This new anthology is a part of the excellent Latin American and Spanish Vocal Music Collection, published by Mundo Arts Publications. The prefatory material, in both Portuguese and English, has a generous section on Brazilian-Portuguese lyric diction, including a discussion of the special features of this rich language. The use of nasalized vowels and diphthongs in Portuguese diction and word linkage are explained here in detail. A glossary of terms specific to Brazilian song is a valuable addition for the musician unfamiliar with song forms such as Moda, choro, and batuque, or with musical directions, such as bem ligado (very legato), or with Brazilian musical instruments, such as the pandeiro, a percussion instrument. Extensive vowel and consonant charts complete the diction section. Each song is prefaced by a composer's biography, the standard three-line translation (IPA, original text, and English), and the range of the song. Women and other underrepresented minority composers are included, within the period parameters of songs composed between 1800 and 1950. Perhaps one of the most fascinating features of this anthology is the ""Introduction to the Brazilian Art Song,"" a detailed history that places the development of Brazilian songs squarely within the context of the political, social, and cultural history of the region. The editors have created a detailed history and description of the provenance of the genre. Patricia Caicedo, the scholar behind this art song series and director of the Barcelona Festival of Song, says in her foreword that, ""It is not surprising that hundreds of art song composers and poets emerged in such a rich, diverse, and stimulating environment. Nor is it surprising that cultural diversity and hybridization are expressed in Brazilian art song: African, indigenous, and European elements coex-ist in it, making this repertoire one of the world's richest."" With the astute and thorough scholarship of this first volume, we look forward to the second volume of later songs of the twentieth and twenty-first century now being planned."""

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"Carol McDavit, Doctor of Music from UNIRIO and Master in Music from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, has sung leading roles in the opera seasons of the most important theaters in Brazil, in particular in La Boh�me, Fidelio, Orfeo, Die Zauberfl�te and Carmen and has performed as soloist with the principal symphony orchestras, in works of Bach, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Britten, Poulenc, among others. As a chamber musician, she has sung hundreds of recitals in Brazil and abroad, with special emphasis on Brazilian and American music, having presented several premi�res. She recorded Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 in the composer's centennial commemorative video, and was a soloist of this work, accompanied by 235 cellos, at the closing concert of the World Cello Congress in Baltimore, USA. Her recordings include sacred works by Nunes Garcia, the oratorio Colombo by Carlos Gomes and collections of Brazilian songs in duo with pianist Maria Teresa Madeira and guitarist Tur�bio Santos. She has conducted workshops and courses on Brazilian song in Germany, France, Canada and the USA. She is professor of voice, diction, repertoire and opera at the Villa-Lobos Institute of the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), where she also coordinates the Opera at UNIRIO Project, now in its 15th edition. Flavio Melo holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). He is currently working toward a DMA. He was selected for the Opera Academy of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, performing roles in operas by Handel, Holst, Purcell and Rescala. He has sung in many important theaters and concert halls and premiered works by Brazilian composers. Recently, he was invited artist and teacher for the Barcelona Festival of Song. His master's research project resulted in the bilingual edition of the ""Antologia da Can��o Brasileira/ Brazilian Art Song Anthology""published by Mundo Arts Publications, as co-author. Patricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist whose scholarship and performances center on Latin American and Iberian art songs. She has released eleven albums and published numerous scholarly editions of scores and books, including The Latin American Art Song: Sounds of the Imagined Nations, the go-to history on its subject. She is also an avid performer of these works, having performed all over the world in addition to founding and directing the Barcelona Festival of Song, which focuses on the performance and study of Latin American and Iberian art songs in Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. She is the host of the podcast, Latin American and Iberian Art Song, in which she interviews composers and leading experts from across the world. Patricia holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Medical Doctor's degree from the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina. Patricia is an Executive Board Member of the International Music Council of UNESCO."

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