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Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (arr.)
Heitor Villa-Lobos · 1887–1959
Level 4 · Early advanced — about ABRSM 7 · RCM 8
Listen
- Type
- Short piece
- Setting
- Piano
- Length
- About 6 min
- Era
- 20th century
- Nationality
- Brazilian
- Exam lists
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Notes
Famous vocalise; long legato lines
About this work
- Composed
- 1938 (first movement); 1945 (second movement)
- Dedicated to
- Arminda Neves d' Almeida
- First performed
- 25 March 1939 in Rio de Janeiro; Ruth Valadares Corrêa (voice)
- Ária (Cantilena, A minor)
- Dança (Martelo, C major)