Construção de Chico Buarque: analysis and meaning of music
Construction It is a music of the writer and composer Chico Buarque, recorded in 1971 for the album that he carries himself. A song with the day of a civil construction worker.
A sound composition gives lyrics and its relationship with the melody fazem of the most brilliant of Brazilian Popular Music.
Music lyrics Construction
He loved it, you see how it was last
He beijou sua mulher as he fosse last
And each filho seu of him as it is fosse or unique
And he crossed you to rua com seu passo timidoSubiu a construção como se fosse machine
Ergueu did not kick four solid walls
Tijolo com tijolo num magic design
Seus olhos dull of cement and tearHe sat down to rest as he sat on Saturday
Comeu feijão with rice as a prince fosse
He drinks and solves like a shipwrecked man
He danced and gargalhou like ouvisse musicAnd he tropeçou no céu how he fosse um bêbado
E flutuou no ar como se fosse um passaro
E se acabou no chão feito um flaccid pacote
Agonizou no meio do passeio public
Morreu na contramão, trapping or trafficHe loved the time you see it last
Beijou sua mulher as she is the only one
And each filho seu of him as it was fosse or prodigal
And travessou a rua com seu passo bêbadoSubiu a construção as a solid fosse
Ergueu no patamar four magical walls
Tijolo com tijolo num logical draw
Seus olhos dull of cement and trafficHe felt to rest as he was a prince
He eats feijão with rice as much as possible
He drinks and solves like the machine
He danced and gargalhou as it was fosse or nextE tropeçou no céu como se ouvisse music
E flutuou will not be like it was saturday
E se he acabou no chão feito um pacote timid
Agonizou no meio do passeio castaway
Morreu na contramão atrapalhando or publicAmou daquela see how you see the machine
Beijou sua mulher as a logical fosse
Ergueu no patamar four flabby walls
Feel to rest as you see a pass
E flutuou not ar as a prince fosse
E se finished no chão feito um pacote bêbado
Morreu na contramão atrapalhando or saturday
Analyze gives music Construction
O rhythm is an essential element in poetry, and even more important in song, where the letter and the melody join. Na composition by Chico Buarque, part of the rhythm and given by metric two verses.
The verses são alexandrinos, isto é, they have doze poetic syllables and a cisão na sixth syllable. This type of long verse requires a pause, and the result is a sequence not half the verse.
Or theme of the song or daily of a worker in civil construction, damage or title. Also way that the verses are cadenced He gives us the idea of a construction, of a movement that begins, opens and turns.
Another important characteristic is not the rhythm of the letter e that all the verses end with proparoxytones, words whose tonic syllable is the penultimate. São dezessete proparoxítonas that intercalam us 41 verses that compõem a canção.
A repetition of the words gera um homophony effectNot which ones are the same as repeating itself causes a rhythmic unit, and also corroborating it as an everyday theme, not which days are passing, followed by two others, with small variations.
Thus, these proparoxytones form or make the lyrics musical. São nouns and adjectives that sustain actions that passam na canção. These actions are the operational course of civil construction for the longest period of the week.
Through the rhythm, the actions in the letter are decorated as a cadência similar to that of two workers.
Introduction
The opening stanza narrates or begins the day of a worker. Embora is evident or love that he nurtures for women and men, he needs to say goodbye to the family and leave for work.
He loved it, you see how it was last
He beijou sua mulher as he fosse last
And each filho seu of him as it is fosse or unique
And he crossed you to rua com seu passo timido
Next, we attend every day of hard work in construction and the way it goes, little years, erecting or building.
Subiu a construção as a solid fosse
Ergueu no patamar four magical walls
Tijolo com tijolo num logical draw
Seus olhos dull of cement and traffic
Development
He felt to rest as he was a prince
He eats feijão with rice as much as possible
He drinks and solves like the machine
He danced and gargalhou as it was fosse or next
Na hora do almoço, or homem can take a break. Embora he is tired, he seems satisfied, eating and drinking. Embora also solves, or that indicates contradictory emotions, ele dança e ri.
This is where the narrative has a revival and has tragic contours. Not tall, or individual lose or balance and fall, hitting no asphalt and dying instantly.
And he tropeçou no céu how he fosse um bêbado
E flutuou no ar como se fosse um passaro
E se acabou no chão feito um flaccid pacote
Agonizou no meio do passeio public
Morreu na contramão, trapping or traffic
Long years of the lyrics, the metaphors will be becoming more profound and unusual, something that becomes explicit from this verse. It is also notorious or contrast between these verses and those of the previous stanza.
Embora estivesse feeling "um prince" and fosse compared to "a machine", logo or home, it becomes "um bêbado", "a flaccid pacote". Assim, we fear or clash between hope and harsh reality.
Conclusion
From this point on, a story has been told again from or beginning. Through a word game, I will repeat the metaphors and alter the places of the stanzas. This way, or I took two verses vai gradually becoming more dysphoric.
The last verse is a kind of condensation of music. Or rhythm becomes more intense, as metaphors have more poetic load and all the actions are summarized in seven verses.
Amou daquela see how you see the machine
Beijou sua mulher as a logical fosse
Ergueu no patamar four flabby walls
Feel to rest as you see a pass
E flutuou not ar as a prince fosse
E se finished no chão feito um pacote bêbado
Morreu na contramão atrapalhando or saturday
Interpretation of music Construction
The most striking characteristic of the Chico Buarque song is the formal construction of the lyrics, how it is used Proparoxytone and two Alexandrian verses, and how this construction is found with a narrative theme gives lyrics.
Or formalism that marks the music together with the narrative of the dia de um operário que morre em serviço ends up functioning as a uma forte social criticism. The alienation of work marks or operates as a machine, destitute of human characteristics, which serves only to carry out actions.
A morte em serviço is treated as an effort, not as a tragedy. TO desumanização do trabalhador It becomes a critical way of capitalist production, just as the focus gives letter to formal construction.
The historical context of the song, which was written during a period of forte repression of military status no Brasil, e o fato of Chico Buarque composed various protest music collaborating with this interpretation.
Porém, independently it gives social leitura, with a poetic charge that the music acquires not final and impressive. The composer seeks by means of metaphors and proparoxytones to create images that fazem as that or everyday becomes something magical, and transforms the last day of the worker into a deconstruction of rotina.
About Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known as Chico Buarque é, sem dúvida, um two most notable singers and composers of Brazilian music. Author of songs that excite us and regret it, Chico also assumes a fundamental role in resistance to military power.
Along with some contemporaries, he was censored, persecuted and ended up having to travel to exile. Mesmo assim, ou by isso mesmo, classic denouncement criou like Chalice, Despite Você and Construction, between others.
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Conheça also
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