The Transverse Flute, Clarinet and Cornet in the Musical Work by Priest José Maria Xavier
Priest José Maria Xavier. Religious Music. Wind Instruments. XIX Century.
The clergyman José Maria Xavier (1819-1887), who was born in São João del-Rei MG, is one of the most distinguished and recognized Brazilian composers of religious music from the 19th century. In some of his pieces there is an appreciated use of a writing pattern for the trio of wind instruments: the transverse flute, clarinet, and cornet playing, simultaneously, the same melodic fragment in a specific way between them. This writing pattern became the objective of analysis and investigation of thise master’s project, which aims to highlight some part of his work and the use of this writing pattern as part of his compositional process.