A constituição paratópica do discurso literomusical de Elomar Figueira de Mello

Abstract

The present research approaches the literomusical pieces of the composer Elomar Figueira Mello, which we believe the constitute paratopically within the Brazilian music. The temporal range of our research is from 1972 to 1983, in which were produced the albums Das barrancas do rio Gavião (1972), Na quadrada das águas perdidas (1978) e Cartas catingueiras (1983).The motivation for studying the pieces of Figueira Mello comes from the fact that the composer reunites several important aspects within the Brazilian musical discourse: the pieces, although not losing touch with the contemporary esthetic, bring together both classical and popular expressions in such an innovative way that makes the compositions unique. The originality comes from the rummaging the history of the sertão, making references to the medieval galego-portuguese classical heritage, present in the Northeastern music and cordel literature. As result of the composer positioning, he retrieves the connection among the galician-portuguese troubadour poetry, the medieval artists and the singers of the sertão. The main theoretical tool used is the discourse analysis, specifically the line proposed by Maingueneau (2001, 2006, 2008a, 2008b, 2010), whose theory is used to approach concepts such as inter-discourse, discursive field, which sums up the definitions of positioning, genre, inter-language and scenography. In addition to the theory of Dominique Maingueneau, the works of Costa (2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2007, 2012) are also used within the Brazilian literomusical context. The objective of this work is to verify how paratopia is a constituent fact in the literolmusical discourse of the composer, by studying the paratopic shifting in his language code and in the proposed scenarios – aspects that mark his position the Brazilian music. By observing the paratopic shifts, in the verbal aspects of the songs, we can identify strong elements which endorse the paratopy of the composer, mainly implemented in the cenography and in the language code of the pieces which we analyzed.