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  Mitologia do futebol brasileiro
 3 guitar studies, 2013

Since my meeting with the Brazilian pianist Jose Eduardo Martins on the net in the circumstances described in the critical work on his piano works, Une reflexion sur la discographie du pianiste bresilien Jose Eduardo MARTINS, a great friendship was born between us that is evidenced by an impressive epistolary correspondence where we talk about all desultory and especially music, inexhaustible subject. He also made me meet many musicians from his country with one of his former students at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Eduardo Meirinhos, the Brazilian guitar master Professor Dr. a la Escola de Musica e Artes Cenicas da Universidade Federal de Goias in Goiania. He commanded me short studies for guitar at the beginning of 2013 but I didn't know yet where to start and what to write that hasn't already made by Brazilian masters for this instrument, including the universal one Heitor Villa-Lobos.

During the summer, current contracts released, I finally found the idea and the subject - the Brazilian football as a dramatic allegory of ancient Greek mythology, transposed to our times - after seeing the broadcasts of the selecao brasileira's splendid matches during the 2013 Confederations Cup organised in Brazil, one year before the 2014' FIFA World Cup already legendary, a global event where the national team and its players have to won the supreme award.In case of failure in 2014, the national disillusionment would be immense, to the extent of geographical and population size. While there is disproportionate like image of the rare soccer players in the world able to control the leather truncated icosahedron with such virtuosity, speed and elegance  than  the  Brazilian  player  in  the heart of action. His individual feet
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talent is a yardstick that can be learned on legendary beaches and in favelas of the country. It seems now to be transmitted to the genes. They say that 500 Brazilian soccer players are able to run on the list of the national team as the individual level is high. In the rest of the world, when each country has a pool of fifty international players is already exceptional ! The music then try to translate all these realities and feelings whose epic dimensions are those of ancient heroes transposed in our time.

Three chapters therefore will evoke this modern mythology in the land of samba, bossa nova, in the dimension of O mito do 'pais do futebol'.

     I. Eraos : because it's about love between a people and its national sport which also dominates the world. Being the best in this game brings a "king of the world" dimension because the FIFA rankings are also important in the minds that the UN, IMF, OECD or Shanghai classifications. It allows the elite of this sport to live like moguls and the team that wins each four years is often described as "on the roof of the world". Eros too because Brazil is the dreamed Eden for fun and festivities in the worldwide psyche. Eros finally because the caress that Brazilian footballers give to the spherical object of their desire is beyond passion and devotion.



     II. Chronaos : because the Brazilian footballer is pressed on the ground in his actions and dribbles. It isn't even possible to watch them in television as they're fast at times because the velocity of the legs seems to exceed the capacity of 24 or 30 frames per second camera. Time and artist seems artificially accelerated in the phases of intense game. All matches in all stages are therefore the one of his life. He must run as fast as possible with the ball or die in the ancient arena, like if a hungry predator was on his trail.

     III. Thanataos : because it's indeed death, even symbolic. The global soccer - like worldwide sporting events - became the last century a new vector of struggle and competition between countries, regions, cities, rich and poor social classes, a universal parameter of individual and collective progress. International level national footballers have ambassadors rank. If they win, they are now decorated with the highest honors that were in the past reserved to the surviving battlefield heroes. The Brazilian footballer has an imperative : he must win. A requirement little different from that of the modern Olympic Games founder, the french Pierre de Coubertin, who said in the end of the XIXth century " The most important is to participate ". An anathema for the Brazilian footballer, because no matter how life has only a little weight against the obligation of result. It often causes to get him away from this so absolutist country in this discipline and to its stars. They're certainly well paid but they have more than wet the tee-shirt on the ground, with tears, sweat and blood, why not ! If the Brazilian footballer died on the lawn, the people would find nothing wrong, because death threats sometimes rained also after bad results. While his fun to play is huge, the race after the ball seems very often to a samba with the mower.



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Eraos (aria)
Chronaos (ostinato)
Thanataos (tsambo)

2'30"
2'20"
3'50"

       
    Total Time :

8'40"