Books and Articles by Flo Menezes
Books
Apoteose de Schoenberg – Ensaio sobre os Arquétipos da Harmonia Contemporânea
(Written between August 1984 and December 1985).
First edition: Edusp / Nova Stella, São Paulo, 1987. (Out of print).
[Second edition, revised and amplified: Ateliê Editorial, São Paulo, 2002. See below.]
His first book, written at the age of 22/23, about Schoenberg, Berg, Webern (and others) and about contemporary harmony and modern harmonic techniques.
Luciano Berio et la Phonologie – Une Approche Jakobsonienne
de son Oeuvre
Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.M./Paris/New
York, 1993. Book about the work of Berio and its relationships with
structural phonology (phonemics). (Out of print).
ISBN: 3-631-45351-5.
[See also about the book below].
Un Essai sur la Composition Verbale/Electronique "Visage"
de Luciano Berio
Quaderni di Musica Realtà Nr. 30*,
Mucchi Editore, Modena, 1993. Book in which the electroacoustic piece Visage by Luciano
Berio is circunstancially analysed. First Prize (unanimously) of the
First International Contest for Musicology (Premio Latina di
Studi Musicali, 1990). (Out of print).
[Together with the book Luciano Berio et la Phonologie... it constitutes the Doctoral Thesis written in 1991 under the auspices of Henri Pousseur and presented to the University of Liège, Belgium, on February 1992. Doctoral degree obtained "avec grande distinction"].
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Música Eletroacústica – História e
Estéticas.
Edusp, São Paulo, first edition 1996, second edition 2009 (with CD enclosed).
First book in Brazil about the Electroacoustic Music and its history, including
translations of historical texts (by Stockhausen, Boulez,
Pousseur, Eimert, Berio, Schaeffer, Maderna,
Koenig and others).
ISBN: 85-314-0301-4.
Atualidade Estética da Música Eletroacústica
Editora Unesp, São Paulo, 1999 (big format, including a CD and scores of A Dialética da Praia and of Parcous de l'Entité).
Book about the main aesthetic questions on Electroacoustic Composition:
inner time of sound, interaction between instruments and electronics, spatiality,
concept of writing, and analysis of electroacoustic compositions.
ISBN: 85-7139-224-2.
Apoteose de Schoenberg – Tratado sobre as Entidades
Harmônicas
[1st Edition: Edusp / Nova Stella, São Paulo, 1987. See above.]
2nd Edition, revised and amplified: Ateliê Editorial, São Paulo, 2002. Book about Schoenberg, Berg, Webern (and others)
and about contemporary harmony and modern harmonic techniques.
ISBN: 85-7480-109-7.
A Acústica Musical em Palavras e Sons
Ateliê
Editorial, São Paulo, 2004 (with CD enclosed). Book about the
main acoustic concepts under the point of view of the composer and of the
electroacoustic music.
ISBN: 85-7480-216-6.
Música Maximalista – Ensaios Reunidos sobre
a Música Radical e Especulativa
Editora Unesp, São
Paulo, 2006. Collected writings on contemporary and electroacoustic music,
with the most remarquable interviews.
ISBN: 85-7139-670-1.
Música e Universo – Do Mundo da Música à Música do Mundo
Book about the main concepts of contemporary composition related to the
universe of sound objects. (Unpublished)
Uma Luz sobre a Obra de Stockhausen
Work in progress
with analysis of pratically all the main works of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Articles (Selection)
"O Que Vem a Ser o 'Sistema de Polarização' – a Segunda Menor é o Átomo do Sistema Tonal". In: Newspaper "Viva há Poesia", published by the concret poets of São Paulo in 1979, p. 5. (Historical text, written in January 1979 at the age of 16: first publication in Portuguese about the theory of harmonic polarization).
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"Micro-Macro". In: Program notes for the world première of Micro-Macro – Liedforma de Amor a Reg, MASP, São Paulo, on 9 November 1983. (Historical text in which the term "maximalism" – "manifesto maximalista" – was introduced for the first time).
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"Une Poétique Phénoménologique et Structurale – Le Rapport Texte/Musique chez Luciano Berio". In: Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, Nr. 7, Basle, April 1994, pp. 34-37.
"A Espacialidade na Música Eletroacústica". (Written in December 94 / January 95). In: Revista ARTEunesp, Vol. 11, FEU (Fundação Editora da Unesp), São Paulo, 1995, pp. 53-61.
"Do Som do Tempo ao Tempo do Som". (Written in May 1995). In: Proceedings (Anais) of the "II SBC&M - 2nd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music", Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, Canela, RS, July/August 1995, pp. 228-231.
Text (in English and in German) about Parcours de l'Entité. (Written in June 1995). In: H. Leopoldseder and C. Schöpf: Prix Ars Electronica 95, ORF, Linz, Austria, June 1995, pp. 184-185.
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"O Maximalismo Comemora os 70 Anos de Berio". (Written in December 1995). In: Suplemento Literário nº 11 (under the title: "Berio: 70 anos"), Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, March 1996, pp. 3-5.
"To Be and Not To Be – Aspects of the Interaction Between Instrumental and Electronic Compositional Methods". (Written in December 1996). In: Leonardo Music Journal (as the Artist's Article), Vol. 7, the MIT-Press, USA, December 1997, pp. 3-10. Available (without musical examples) also at Internet.
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"La Spatialité dans la Musique Electroacoustique – Aspects Historiques et Proposition Actuelle". (Written between December 1995 and March 1997). In: L'espace: Musique / Philosophie, textes réunis et présentés par Jean-Marc Chouvel et Makis Solomos, Edited by Sorbonne, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1998, pp. 351-364. ISBN: 2-7384-6593-5.
"As Vanguardas e os Públicos". (Written in March 97). In: Revista Concerto, Ano III, n. 17, São Paulo, April 1997, p. 17.
"A Teoria da Unidade do Tempo Musical de Karlheinz Stockhausen". (Written in May 1997). In: Arte Brasil, Instituto de Artes da Unesp / Pós-Graduação, Ano 1, Nº 1, São Paulo, August 1998, pp. 81-85.
"A Trajetória de Vanguarda de Stockhausen". In: Caderno 2 of O Estado de São Paulo (under the title: "Compositor é o Beethoven do século 20"), February 7th, 1998, p. D-16.
"A Condição Histórica da Escuta à Luz de Stockhausen". (Written in September 1998). In: Revista Concerto, Ano IV, n. 34, São Paulo, October 1998, p. 16.
"Response to Book Review". (Written in October 1998). In: Computer Music Journal, Volume 22 (Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments), Number 3, Fall 1998, The MIT Press, p. 4.
Link to this article: http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0148-9267(199823)22%3A3%3C4%3ARTBR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L&cookieSet=1
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"Neue Form und neue harmonische Techniken im Bereich instrumentaler und elektroakustischer Musik". (Written in June 1999). In: Komposition und Musikwissenschaft im Dialog III (1999-2001), Maurico Kagel, Flo Menezes et al., Signale aus Köln – Musik der Zeit, Band 6, Lit Verlag, Münster, 2003, pp. 33-60. ISBN: 3-8258-7161-4.
"As Coisas, seus Nomes e seus Lugares". (Written in February 2001). Foreword to: Arnold Schoenberg, Harmonia,Editora Unesp, São Paulo, 2001, pp. 9-18. ISBN: 85-7139-362-1.
"For a Morphology of the Interaction". (Written in February 2001). In English: Organised Sound – An International Journal of Music Technology, Volume 7, Number 3, Cambridge University Press, December 2002, pp. 305-311. ISSN: 1355-7718. In German: "Für eine Morphologie der Interaktion", in: Komposition und Musikwissenschaft im Dialog III (1999-2001), Maurico Kagel, Flo Menezes et al., Signale aus Köln – Musik der Zeit, Band 6, Lit Verlag, Münster, 2003, pp. 168-190. ISBN: 3-8258-7161-4.
"A Estonteante Velocidade da Música Maximalista – Música e Física: Elos e Paralelos". (Written in September 2003). First published at Internet: itaucultural.org.br/interatividades2003/menezes.cfm
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112 KB) as published in the book Música Maximalista
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KB)
"Música de Palabras – Entrevista a Flo Menezes". (Interview given to Jaime Eduardo Oliver in Lima, Peru, May 2004). In: Distancia Crítica, Ano 1, Número 2, Lima, Peru, August 2004, pp. 30-32.
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"Uma Conversa com o Compositor". (Lecture on his life and work given in 10 August 2004 at the Centro Cultural São Paulo). First published at Internet (as PDF file inside the menu "música brasileira contemporânea 1"): http://www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br/cadernos/index.asp
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"Flo Menezes – Antologia Pessoal". (Interview about his main ideas and tastes). In: Jornal O Estado de São Paulo, 23 January 2005, Caderno 2 / Cultura, D12.
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"Das ‘laborinthische’ Verhältnis von Text und Musik bei Luciano Berio". In: Musik-Konzepte 128 – Luciano Berio, edition text+kritik, München, IV/2005, pp. 24-41. ISBN: 3-88377-784-6. ISSN: 0931-3311.
"Sull’Interpretazione
della Musica Acusmatica". In: Program notes of the III Festival
di Musica Acusmatica of Cagliari, Italy, June 2006, pp. 16-18.
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"Flo Menezes em Conversa". (Interview with Leonardo Martinelli). In: Revista Concerto, Ano XI, n. 118, São Paulo, June 2006, pp. 18-19.
"Odisséia Eletroacústica". (Internet interview in Portuguese given to Humberto Pereira da Silva, July 2007). First published at Internet: http://p.php.uol.com.br/tropico/html/textos/2880,1.shl
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"La Voie du Syncrétisme: sur la Musique Électroacoustique au Brésil". In: Circuit – Musiques Contemporaines, Volume 17, Numéro 2 (2007), Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, Montreal, pp. 55-64. ISBN: 978-2-7606-2067-4. ISSN: 1183-1693.
"Stockhausen é a além-música". (Article in Portuguese about the death of Karlheinz Stockhausen; written in December 2007). First published at Internet: http://p.php.uol.com.br/tropico/html/textos/2937,1.shl
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"A música de Flo Menezes". (Internet interview given to Nina Gazire, May 2008). First published at Internet: http://blog.premiosergiomotta.org.br/category/musica/
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"Dos ouvidos para cima". (Article about the difference between popular and speculative music; written in July 2008). In: Revista Concerto, Ano XIII, n. 142, São Paulo, August 2008, p. 21.
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"Por Que Escrever Sobre a Música Eletroacústica?". In: Eloy F. Fritsch, Música Eletrônica – Uma Introdução Ilustrada, Editora da UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 2008, pp. 15-19. ISBN: 978-85-7025-999-8.
"O Livro do Ver(e)dito" (written in 2004); "Analogue versus Digital, did this fight ever exist? (Roundtable mit Flo Menezes, Jean-Claude Risset, Daniel Teruggi und Hans Tutschku am 9. Oktober 2004"; "Hommage an Henri Pousseur zum 75. Geburtstag" (Conversation in German with Pousseur et alii on 3 December 2004 in Cologne). In: Komposition und Musikwissenschaft im Dialog VI (2004-2006), Flo Menezes et al., Signale aus Köln – Musik der Zeit, Band 12, Im Verlag der Apfel, Wien, 2008, pp. 62-63; 65-94; und 101-115. ISBN: 978-3-85450-412-2.
"Stockhausen Permanece". (Foreword to the Brazilian translation of Stockhausen's book "Stockhausen on music"). In: Karlheinz Stockhausen & Robin Maconie, Stockhausen Sobre a Música, Madras, São Paulo, 2009, pp. 13-28. ISBN: 978-85-370-0399-2.
"... e as Utopias Morrem Mais um Pouco: Henri Pousseur". (Article about the death of Henri Pousseur). In: Revista Concerto, Ano XIV, n. 149, São Paulo, April 2009, p. 19.
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"Von B-A-C-H zu C-A-G-E – Das unendliche Ende einer merkwürdigen Betreuung". (After the death of Henri Pousseur). In: MusikTexte 121 – Zeitschrift für Neue Musik, Köln, May 2009, pp. 44-46. ISSN: 0178-8884.
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"...new means(,) old meanings...".
(Essay presented as lecture at the EMS'09 in Buenos Aires, Argentine, in May 2009). First published at Internet:
http://www.ems-network.org/ems09/proceedings.html
"Ressonâncias". (Interview to Maurício Ayer about Chopin, Schumann, Mahler, Brahms etc.). In: Program of the 41. Festival Internacional de Inverno de Campos do Jordão – A Música e seus Diálogos, Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, July 2010, pp. 81-84.
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Translations
Poesia Sonora – Poéticas Experimentais da Voz no Séxulo XX
Edited by Philadelpho Menezes, Educ, São Paulo, 1992. Translation (from the Italian) of texts by Ernest Robson, Dick Higgins and Giovanni Fontana.
ISBN: 85-283-0044-7.
Música Eletroacústica – História e
Estéticas.
Edited by Flo Menezes, Edusp, São Paulo, first edition 1996, second edition 2009. [See above.]
Besides his own texts: translation (from the Italian, French, German and English) of texts by Luigi Russolo, Edgar Varèse, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Pierre Schaeffer, Carl Dahlhaus, Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning and Philippe Manoury, and revision of translations (by Regina Johas) of texts by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernst Krenek, Herbert Eimert and Gottfried Michael Koenig.
ISBN: 85-314-0301-4.
Henri Pousseur: Apoteose de Rameau e outros ensaios (critical edition/translation of the main writings by Pousseur on harmony, with a foreword about the Belgian composer), Editora Unesp, São Paulo, 2009. ISBN: 978-85-7139-919-8.
Some encyclopedias with specific references on Flo Menezes
Klangraum – 40 Jahre Neue Musik in Köln 1945-1985
Kölner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Wienand Verlag Köln, 1991,
pp. 85-86.
ISBN: 3-87909-261-3.
Internationale Dokumentation elektroakustischer Musik
by Folkmar Hein and Thomas Seelig, Elektronisches Studio der Technischen Universität
Berlin / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik (DegeM), Pfau
Verlag, Saarbrücken, 1996, p. 227. (Containing a list of his electroacoustic
works until 1995).
ISBN: 3-930735-59-8.
História da Música no Brasil
by Vasco Mariz, Editora Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro, 2000, pp. 485-486.
(In which he is considered as the leader of the electroacoustic music in Brazil).
ISBN: 85-209-1050-5.
Die Symphonie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
by Wolfram Steinbeck and Christoph von Blumröder, Handbuch der musikalischen
Gattungen, Band 3, Teil 2, Laaber Verlag, Laaber, 2002. (In which, on page
306, his electroacoustic work Sinfonias is seen metaphorically
as the last stage of the symphonic genre).
ISBN: 3-89007-542-8.
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik
Article by Ralph Paland: Personenartikel "Menezes, Flo", in: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik, 2., neubearbeitete Auflage, Hg. Ludwig Finscher, Supplement, Bärenreiter/Metzler, Kassel/Stuttgart, 2008, pp. 546-547.
ISBN (Supplement): 978-3-7618-1139-9.
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Música Clássica Brasileira Hoje
by Sidney Molina, Publifolha, São Paulo, 2010, pp. 61-65.
ISBN: 978-85-7914-154-6.