Music analysis of Clarisse Leite's Imperial Suite for guitar based on John Rink's analytical techniques

the intersection between analysis and performance in interpretive construction

Abstract

This paper presents a musical analysis of Suíte Imperial by Clarisse Leite (1917–2003) based on the six analytical techniques proposed by John Rink (2002) in Analysis and (or?) performance?, with the conception of intersection between analysis and performance. According to Rink (2002), interpreting necessarily implies making decisions, and the performer is also an analyst when expressing music in his/her practice. In this way, we aim to demonstrate contributions of musical analysis to the construction of a performance, based on the proposal that intersects prescriptive and descriptive analysis (Rink 2002, p. 37), that is, the score of the work together with the interpretative decisions of the performance built with the analysis. We employ the analytical techniques proposed by the author, through resources such as tables, graphs and renotations, describing their implications in the performance practice and what derived from the musical practice itself. Through this work, it was possible to construct performances of the work from this analytical-interpretative process and other complementary research procedures that imply in the conceptions of meaning: information about the work and the composer, interview with the dedicatee guitarist, interpreters and editors, access to handwritten and edited score, and issues related to the choice of repertoire that originated the present work, such as the contextualization of the production of women composers for guitar based on the contributions of reflections on music and genre and historical-stylistic analysis.