MUSIC SCORING AND CRITICAL MERCHANDISE: A INVENTION OF TRADITION IN URBAN MUSIC FORTALEZA-CE (1897-1949)

Abstract

There is intended to do a rereading of the history of the urbane music produced in
Fortress between the years from 1897 to 1949, when the critical production of the
period is confronted with the scores published at the principal houses of music or
written by the most required copyists. Great part of the written ones on music from
Fortaleza of this period was produced by critics of musicians been connected of the
radio and the press. Influenced by the “scientific studies” of the modernist musicologist
Mário de Andrade, they were presenting a writing of tone characteristically
nationalist. The discussion is centered in the question of the dilemmas of an invented
tradition of the urbane music by the light of the theory of Eric Hobsbawm on the
subject.