"LIGHT MUSIC" IN THE THOUGHT ABOUT POPULAR MUSIC IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The expression "light music" was used by Zacarias Gondim in 1903, in his historiography of Brazilian music, referring to the repertoire of salons linking the type of music and composers, in the case called "amateurs" to a qualitative sense. Suspecting that this expression refers
to the repertoire and emerging musical practices of modern cities, therefore, a historical categorization, a revision of the expression was processed trying to identify if the repertoire mentioned
by Gondim is perceived by the historians of the Brazilian music in the same sense. The recent
bibliographical revisions of the historiography of Brazilian music by authors Vinci de Moraes,
Carolina Dantas and Martha Abreu and Marcos Napolitano and Mariana Wasserman, as well as
other sources such as Aloísio de Alencar Pinto were taken as documents for dialogue with
Gondim