A relação entre música e palavra: uma análise das canções de Chico Buarque e Tom Jobim

Abstract

This work aims at studying the relations undertaken between word and music in Brazilian popular song. Therefore, we chose the works of Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque , two fundamental composers in the history of MPB ( Brazilian Popular Music), for having expanded the possibilities of articulation between the system of verbal and musical signs. Out of all the songs they composed we selected three (“Retrato em Branco e Preto”, "Imagina" and "Sabiá"), by the fact that in them the relation between lyrics and melody proved more patent. We have taken as basis the studies of Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira on melopoetics, and especially the semiotic of the song , theory raised by the musician and professor Luiz Tatit. The theories used allowed us to understand the meaning construction of the speech of the two composers more cohesive and comprehensive. This is because, in our analysis, we contemplate both the linguistic and musical elements, we understand that reading a text of a song out of its musical structure may generate effects of meaning different from when we listen to it with all its components. From the analytical hearing of the selected songs and bibliographical research, we realized that the work of Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque is guided by a strict connection between word and music, which generates an aesthetic organicity, a homogeneous stylistic result. Furthermore, they are compositions which dialogue intensely with the modern Brazilian literature, especially with regard to the use of colloquialisms and prosaisms, the search for simplicity, the use of a more concise and visual language and the insertion of irony and parody.