Étude No. 12 (Villa-Lobos)

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 12, the last of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.

History

The autograph manuscript of Etude No. 12 is dated 1929, Paris.[1]

Structure

The piece is in A minor and is marked Animé.[2]

Analysis

Étude No. 12 is a study in glissandos, boldly turning to musical use the normally unpleasant sounds produced when the player's finger slides over the guitar's strings. Like the preceding two studies (and unlike the earlier ones), it is in ternary (ABA) form, with a strongly contrasting middle section (marked più mosso) featuring drumming sounds produced on the fifth and sixth strings together.[3]

References

1. Villa-Lobos, sua obra 1989.
2. Santos 1985, p. 27.
3. Santos 1985, pp. 27–28.

Cited sources

• Santos, Turibio. 1985. Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, translated by Victoria Ford and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry: Wise Owl Music.
• Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 1989. Third edition. Rio de Janeiro: MinC-SPHAN/Pró-Memória, Museu Villa-Lobos. Online edition, 2009

Further reading

• Wright, Simon. 1992. Villa-Lobos. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-315476-5 (cloth); ISBN 0-19-315475-7 (pbk).