Reco-reco mvim_mvl_me_001 - Museu Virtual de Instrumentos Musicais

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Audio

Instrument: Reco-reco
Sound: Musical phrase from Noneto by Heitor Villa-Lobos, n. 24 (p. 110).
Source: ANUNCIAÇÃO, Luiz D’. Os instrumentos típicos brasileiros na obra de Villa-Lobos [Typical Brazilian instruments in the work of Villa-Lobos]. Ed. bilingual. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Música, 2006 – Audio included in the CD attached to the book.

Instrument: Reco-reco
Sound: Musical phrase from Noneto by Heitor Villa-Lobos, n. 24 of essay – low intonation (p. 111).
Source: ANUNCIAÇÃO, Luiz D’. Os instrumentos típicos brasileiros na obra de Villa-Lobos [Typical Brazilian instruments in the work of Villa-Lobos]. Ed. bilingual. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Música, 2006 – Audio included in the CD attached to the book.

Instrument: Reco-reco
Sound: Musical phrase from the symphonic poem Uirapuru by Heitor Villa-Lobos, fifth bar of n. 9 of essay (p. 108).
Source: ANUNCIAÇÃO, Luiz D’. Os instrumentos típicos brasileiros na obra de Villa-Lobos [Typical Brazilian instruments in the work of Villa-Lobos]. Ed. bilingual. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Música, 2006 – Audio included in the CD attached to the book.

Instrument: Reco-reco
Sound: Musical phrase from Mandu-Çarárá by Heitor Villa-Lobos, n. 27 of essay (p. 103).
Source: ANUNCIAÇÃO, Luiz D’. Os instrumentos típicos brasileiros na obra de Villa-Lobos [Typical Brazilian instruments in the work of Villa-Lobos]. Ed. bilingual. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Música, 2006 – Audio included in the CD attached to the book.

Instrument: Reco-reco
Sound: Musical phrase from Mamoprecoce by Heitor Villa-Lobos, sixth measure of n. 79 of essay (p. 93).
Source: ANUNCIAÇÃO, Luiz D’. Os instrumentos típicos brasileiros na obra de Villa-Lobos [Typical Brazilian instruments in the work of Villa-Lobos]. Ed. bilingual. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasileira de Música, 2006 – Audio included in the CD attached to the book.

Further Information

Description

The reco-reco is an idiophone with a timbral intonation not aligned to the tonal process, with a sound of indeterminate pitch. Its shape is usually cylindrical, which is not the case for this specific item, which has a straight base. It can be made of one or more buds of bamboo (taboca or taquara), wood, metal, bovine horn or gourd (like its Cuban counterpart, the guiro), where transverse grooves are made along its entire length, creating a toothed track. To play, the instrumentalist rubs the grooves with a specific type of drumstick.

Learn more

Reco-reco is the generic term for the scraped idiophone. It refers to any type of material whose surface – or part of it – is made of a series of transversal and parallel grooves that are very close, along the length of the piece, to be rubbed with a specific type of drumstick.
The instrument integrates the Brazilian rhythmic and is part of our folklore and the music of several indigenous peoples. Villa-Lobos made extensive use of the reco-reco in his works, having created a special model with a mute, such as this example that is part of the Villa-Lobos Museum, manufactured in Paris in 1924 by order of the composer.

General Data

Classification

112.22 Scraped tubes

Item Data

Code

mvim_mvl_me_002

Date

First half of the 20th century

Place of Manufacture

France

Manufacturer / Author

Author not identified

Material

wood

Dimensions

L=40cm W=9cm H=5cm

Location

Villa-Lobos Museum

Bibliography

ANUNCIAÇÃO, 2006.
PEDRO SÁ, 2014.
MIMO, 2011.

Notas

Object number in the Villa-Lobos Museum catalogue - 2009.09B.006