Singing the Unspoken: An Analysis of the Formal and Semantic Aspects of Milton Nascimento’s Song “Hoje É Dia de El Rey”
Abstract
In this article, we seek to investigate the structural and semantic aspects that permeate the song Hoje É Dia de El Rey, by Milton Nascimento, released for the first time on the album Milagre dos Peixes, in 1973. In addition to the interest of the research, understanding the resources used by the artist in the face of the unforeseen challenges of censorship (imposed on the song due to its political content) and how an apparently external fact to the creative process would end up influencing the results of the work at that time. As a result of this research, the objective was not only a description of its semantic and structural processes, including its recording process, but also a view of these aspects that resulted in practical knowledge that could be updated in the performance of the song.
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