Musical intertextuality in Alberto Nepomuceno’s religious music

Abstract

This article aims to identify categories of musical intertextuality in the sacred and religious music composed by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864–1920). Firstly, it presents a classification of the repertoire into three groups: sacred music, oratory (latu sensu) and religious instrumental music. Second, I briefly discuss the theories of musical intertextuality’s categories. Third, I analyze Nepomuceno’s religious pieces under musical intertextuality, it was identified quotes from formal schemes, textual and stylistic quotes in various structural levels, mainly in three works: Cloches de Noël, Em Bethleem and Mass for two voices.

Keywords: Alberto Nepomuceno; Sacred and religious music; Musical analysis; Intertextuality