Étude No. 4 (Villa-Lobos)

Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 4 ("de acordes repetidos"), part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.

Structure

The piece shows the influence of folk guitar music, is in G major, and is marked Un peu modéré (Santos 1985, 23).

Analysis

Étude No. 4 is a chord study, but does not employ all of the harmonic and polyphonic resources of the instrument (Santos 1985, 23).

References

Cited sources

• Santos, Turibio. 1985. Heitor Villa-Lobos and the Guitar, translated by Victoria Ford and Graham Wade. Gurtnacloona, Bantry: Wise Owl Music.

Further reading

• Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 1989. Third edition. Rio de Janeiro: MinC-SPHAN/Pró-Memória, Museu Villa-Lobos. Online edition, 2009
• 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).