Kilza Setti

Kilza Setti de Castro Lima ( born January 26, 1932 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist.

Biography

Kilza Setti completed piano studies at the Conservatorio Dramático e Musical de São Paulo. After its completion, and several semesters journalism, she received from the Conservatory of Theatre and Music São Paulo a scholarship for the course in composition and counterpoint under Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), one of the key composers of Brazil.

In 1967 she received a scholarship from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon for musicological research in Portuguese villages. Here she continued her research in the field of the origins and development of the musical repertoire of the Brazilian Southeast.

In the 70 years she received for her compositions ten awards, including first prize in the composition competition, the Brazilian song.

In 1982, she received her doctorate from the University of São Paulo for a social anthropologist. Kilza Setti explored the music of caiçara Fischer (European and indianischstämmige inhabitants of the south-eastern coast of Brazil ), and the ritual music of the Guarani Mbyá Indians from the state of São Paulo and the Timbira Indians from Central Brazil. She is the initiator and leader of the musical project sound archive of Timbira Indians and coordinator of projects for Indian education.

Kilza Settis compositional oeuvre includes vocal choir and chamber music, but also works for instrumental ensembles and orchestras. Your research on the music of Brazilian Indian tribes influenced their works.

Setti is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music - Columbia University, the Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea, the Sociedade Brasileira de Antropologia da Música (founding member ), the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte, the Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia, the Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e - Pós graduacao em Música (founding member ), the editorial Advisory Board of the journal African Music - Rhodes University, South Africa. Furthermore, it belongs to the Centro de Estudos Americanos Fernando Pessoa, the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia da Arte - Universidade de São Paulo - (founding member ), and the Executive Board and Advisory Board of Ethnology of the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista de São Paulo on. At the Federal University of Bahia has a visiting professorship.

Compositions

Publications

  • Ubatuba nos Cantos the praias, 1985
  • Amjëkin, music Timbira peoples: 3 CDs on Indian Music

Participation in international publications

  • The Universe of Music: a history - UNESCO
  • The musical cultures of the Indians of Brazil, 1997
  • Caminhos Musicais entre Portugal e Brasil, música tradicional portuguesa
  • Música caiçara e de derivação africana, Notes on caiçara musical production
  • Sistemas Musicais dos Índios Mbyá - Guarani de SP e dos Timbira do MA e TO
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