Performance in music and beyond music
an analysis of Teto Preto`s song Pedra Preta
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https://doi.org/10.48075/rt.v16i3.30058Keywords:
Musica Analysis, Popular music, Electronic music, Performance, Teto PretoAbstract
This article engages with an analysis - which seeks to extrapolate the musical universe - of the song Pedra Preta, written by the band Teto Preto, an electronic music group whose founder and frontgirl is the multi-artist Laura Diaz. The analysis was carried out based on several interviews, written or on in video, that Laura Diaz gave in 2019 and through six different interpretive biases: lyrics; melody and harmony; vocals; percussion and rhythm; instruments, sound and ambience; video clip. In musical biases, traditional analytical parameters were used, but not in a disintegrated way to what really matters in the case of the song in question: the symbolic context. At the end of the analysis, some issues deserve to be highlighted: the song has strong influences from MPB ranging from harmony to Laura Diaz's voice; the song is built from sounds in a logic of layers, where a single element, most of the time, would lose its meaning; the band Teto Preto and, therefore, their songs, are full of meanings. Therefore, it is not possible to fully understand the band's multiartistic proposal without having a prior understanding of some aspects, such as its origins and guidelines. Finally, we conclude that the analysis of songs like Pedra Preta requires a transdisciplinary look. which does not exclude the musical aspect, but systematically elaborates it, since the music is the supporting column of all the other structural pillars of the song in its process of signification.
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