Conquistas composicionais de Rebecca Clarke na ‘Sonata para viola e piano’

Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira; Laís Ferreira Lopes

doi:10.33871/vortex.2025.13.9925

Authors

Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-7121
Laís Ferreira Lopes Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2362-1431

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/vortex.2025.13.9925

Keywords:

Female composers, Viola, Musical Analysis, Rebecca Clarke

Abstract

The identification of successful women in various fields of knowledge has been a focus of recent collaborative research. However, despite these advances, the impact of such initiatives remains limited. This study aims to highlight pioneering elements in Rebecca Clarke's biography, with a particular emphasis on the composition of her Sonata for Viola and Piano, focusing on a musical analysis of the first movement, especially in terms of form and harmony. In this context, some Clarke’s compositional strategies are revealed, including the crossing of sonorities from adjacent chords, expansions stemming from the centralizing chord of the musical piece, and the construction of structural formations based on chromatic thirds, resulting from regroupings of chords that form networks of contextual transformations.

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Author Biographies

Adriana Lopes da Cunha Moreira, Universidade de São Paulo

Brazilian musicologist Dr. Adriana Lopes Moreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music and the Graduate Program in Music at ECA-USP, where she has been teaching since 2004. Her work focuses primarily on Music Analysis, Music Perception, and 20th-Century Music. She is the coordinator of the Research Group TRAMA: Teoria e Análise Musical (USP and CNPq, 2015–) and a full member of the International Relations Committee of ECA-USP. She served as editor-in-chief of OPUS (2011–15), Undergraduate and Research Coordinator, Vice-Coordinator of PPGMUS, and Vice-Head of the Department of Music at USP.

Laís Ferreira Lopes , Universidade de São Paulo

Violist Laís Ferreira Lopes is an undergraduate Music student at the University of São Paulo (USP), where she conducted research on Rebecca Clarke (2023–24, PIBIC-CAPES and USP) and dedicates herself to studies in Music Analysis and Performance, with an emphasis on repertoire composed by women. In 2024, she undertook an academic exchange at Université Paris 8, joining the Orchestre du Nouveau Monde. She participated in the Orquesta do Instituto GPA (2017–22), Festival Iguazú in Concert (2017–19), and the International Festival of Londrina (2018). She studied with Roberta Marcinkowski, Samuel Passos, Renato Bandel, and Renata Jaffé.

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