Almeida Prado e Roberto Victorio : a música como mediadora da paradoxal relação entre o humano e o sagrado

Abstract

Western science, through technological and cybernetic advances, privileges the supremacy of reason. However, paradoxically, it reveals a need to return to the mythical past, letting the emotion escape in the longing for the transcendent. Culture becomes evident in the re vealing element of the transcendental theme through the arts, especially music, particularly the erudite and specifically the Brazilian. At this moment, composers such as Almeida Pra do (Carta de Patmos) and Roberto Victorio (Bereshit) become emblematic to identify this desire to propose, consciously or not, through Art, the possibilities of a path of contacting, longing, human origins in the Sacred. The main objective of our research was to study con temporary Brazilian music, to understand man in his continuous interrelation with the Sa cred. From this understanding, our specific objectives were: to contribute to a greater un derstanding of the intrinsic relations between the Sacred and contemporary music; identify ideological and alienation instruments in music; awakening to the instrumental reality of the transcendental element in the harmonization of musical art in the cultural environment; contribute to the process of self-perception of the human condition through contemporary music. For that, we used the Inductive Method, in which compositions of Almeida Prado and Roberto Victorio were analyzed. As a result, we have seen that the composers have indicated us a path of experience of the Sacred in human life. On this journey, the paradox ical human longing for autonomy and, at the same time, for coziness and protection was evident. We are facing a new human being, matured over the millenniums, who reinterprets his relations with the transcendent and, given that, does not desire and even is incapable of definitively cutting off his relations with the Sacred.