Elza Soares: vida e obra sob o olhar da Fonoaudiologia

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, João Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20952
• topic: Soares, Elza, [1937- ]; Voz; Qualidade da voz; Phonoaudiology; Voice; Voice quality; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FONOAUDIOLOGIA

Elza Soares is considered as one of the greatest singers in Brazil. She stands out in the Brazilian popular music scenario for her voice and unique interpretations. Objective: to analyze, from the perspective of the Phonoaudiology, aspects of the life history, career and characteristics of the voice of the singer. Methodology: the present thesis is composed of two different studies. In the first one, a literature review on the singer’s life and career was carried out, along with an interview performed with the artist, which was interpreted according to content analysis proposed by Bardin. Four thematic categories have been created due to the investigation: woman and society, protagonism, influences and musical genres and career, interpretation and voice. In the second study, five of Elza’s featured songs have been selected to be investigated through a perceptual-auditory analysis by judges, phonoaudiologists and singing teachers. Results: It was possible to notice from the first study that, although our focus is on a singer who was noteworthy because of her voice, Elsa herself does not consider it as the prominent fact to her career and success. In the second study it was observed that Elza has kept the adequate pneumophonoarticulatory coordination and articulation; pitch has varied from medium to high in songs like “Malandro”, “A Carne” and “Opinião” and medium to low in “Se acaso você chegasse” and “Maria da Vila Matilde”, hard attack (“Se acado você chegasse”, “Opinião” and “Maria da Vila Matilde”), soft attack (“Malandro”) and hard/sudden (“Carne”); laryngopharyngeal resonance with moderate nasal focus (“A carne, “Opinião” and “Maria da Vila Matilde”), laryngopharyngeal with nasal compensatory focus (“Se acaso você chegasse”) and balanced (“Malandro”). Concluding Remarks: The routes opened and taken by a black interpreter of several aesthetic affiliations and musical styles in the second half of the twentieth century have been presented in the present study. An attempt has been made to analyze the singer Elza Soares in a general overview of the Brazilian music on biographical, vocal and musical issues. The singer behaves differently in each of her interpretations and her vocal characteristics change according to the singing style and musical genre, for she has created an artistic intervention greater than her own singing, although the singing was the means to such great end