Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Music Educator

Villa-Lobos H. , “Exhortation’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1969), vol. 4, p. 115. A translation of this is provided in Appendix I.

Villa-Lobos H. Solfejos, Introduction, Cassa Arthur Napoleao (Rio, © 1940), vol. 1, p. 5: ‘Based on the dispatch No. 19.890 of 18th April 1931, from the teaching reform, signed by our Excellency Dr. Getulio Vargas, the teaching of Canto Orfeonico became compulsory…’

Vassberg D.E. “Villa-Lobos: Music as a Tool of Nationalism’, Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (Wisconsin University Press, 1969), p. 56.

Ibid., p. 62.

Villa-Lobos H. “My Philosophy’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1969), vol. 3, p. 119: ‘All my philosophy is concentrated in music, because music is the only reason, the only object of my very existence. I can only be useful anyway through music. If tomorrow the folk music was to end, disappear from the earth, I might as well disappear myself.’

Ibid.

Villa-Lobos H. “Conception about Art’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1969), vol. 4, p. 113.

Villa-Lobos H. “Commentaries and Remarks’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1969), vol. 6, p. 96.

Villa-Lobos H. Solfejos, op. cit., p. 4.

Marx B. “Brazilian Portrait - Villa-Lobos’, Modern Music, (New York, 1939), vol. 17, p. 17.

Ibid.

Villa-Lobos H. “Civic Artistical Education’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1970), vol. 5, p. 106.

Ibid.

Villa-Lobos H. “Musical Education’, Presença de Villa-Lobos, MEC, Musen Villa-Lobos (Rio, 1971), vol. 6, p. 99.