Elomar Figueira de Mello is a Brazilian Northeastern composer from the rura… Read Full Bio ↴Elomar Figueira de Mello is a Brazilian Northeastern composer from the rural area of Vitória da Conquista, in the state of Bahia. The son of a prosperous farmer and his Methodist wife, he has grown up under the influence of both the Christian, Protestant faith and of violeiros, the troubadours that range all Brazilian hinterland singing their own and others’s compositions, with themes related to the cordel literature.
He tried to study Music with a Swiss professor living in Brazil, but their ideas about roots music were incompatible, Elomar having a vision both more dynamic and more linked to the mentality of the people, while still fully committed to the sophistication and quality of Classical music; while his teacher wanted, and produced, a fully Contemporary music with influences from the region. Elomar’s music, while keeping the Classical forms of operas, cantatas, oratorios and other sacred music, has a distinctive Mediæval flavour, Elomar maintaining in his characteristic, idiosyncratic speech that ‘Brazilian Northeast is the last time of the Middle Ages’ (‘O Nordeste é o último tempo da Idade Média’).
He was Secretary of Urbanism for Vitória da Conquista for a while. Now he keeps a home at the city but spends most of his time in his goat-raising farm, where he shares in the work of the farm and direct it, besides writing down his music. He says he has most of it ready in his mind, and he only asks God time enough to live to be able to write it all down.
Elomar has a passion for European culture with a strong preference for the French, while totally rejecting the Anglo-Saxon one. He is nearly a Luddite, thinking all technology misused. He is deeply religious and thinks all modern European culture dead and sick.
His music, while not too difficult to hear, is quite sophisticated and manages to successfully combine both modern and Mediæval elements. It carries expressions of deep faith both by the author himself and the poetical egos. It has some striking themes to it, some universal – like Incelença ad Moribundum Solem, a requiem thanking God for all the services the Sun has performed us, to be sung when it finally dies somewhere in the future – and some parochial, like the fate of specific, if fictional violeiros and migrants from the dry, feudalised lands of the Northeast to the rich, industrial lands of the Southeast.
Some connoisseurs consider him the greatest living musician, because he manages to do Classical music that is modern and relevant to today's time while still being deeply stepped in his region’s mentality and beliefs, totally avoiding the Nihilism seen as dominating modern art in general and Contemporary music specifically.
From 2000 to 2004 he lived at Lagoa Real, trying to form a ‘sertaneza’ (country) opera project.
He tried to study Music with a Swiss professor living in Brazil, but their ideas about roots music were incompatible, Elomar having a vision both more dynamic and more linked to the mentality of the people, while still fully committed to the sophistication and quality of Classical music; while his teacher wanted, and produced, a fully Contemporary music with influences from the region. Elomar’s music, while keeping the Classical forms of operas, cantatas, oratorios and other sacred music, has a distinctive Mediæval flavour, Elomar maintaining in his characteristic, idiosyncratic speech that ‘Brazilian Northeast is the last time of the Middle Ages’ (‘O Nordeste é o último tempo da Idade Média’).
He was Secretary of Urbanism for Vitória da Conquista for a while. Now he keeps a home at the city but spends most of his time in his goat-raising farm, where he shares in the work of the farm and direct it, besides writing down his music. He says he has most of it ready in his mind, and he only asks God time enough to live to be able to write it all down.
Elomar has a passion for European culture with a strong preference for the French, while totally rejecting the Anglo-Saxon one. He is nearly a Luddite, thinking all technology misused. He is deeply religious and thinks all modern European culture dead and sick.
His music, while not too difficult to hear, is quite sophisticated and manages to successfully combine both modern and Mediæval elements. It carries expressions of deep faith both by the author himself and the poetical egos. It has some striking themes to it, some universal – like Incelença ad Moribundum Solem, a requiem thanking God for all the services the Sun has performed us, to be sung when it finally dies somewhere in the future – and some parochial, like the fate of specific, if fictional violeiros and migrants from the dry, feudalised lands of the Northeast to the rich, industrial lands of the Southeast.
Some connoisseurs consider him the greatest living musician, because he manages to do Classical music that is modern and relevant to today's time while still being deeply stepped in his region’s mentality and beliefs, totally avoiding the Nihilism seen as dominating modern art in general and Contemporary music specifically.
From 2000 to 2004 he lived at Lagoa Real, trying to form a ‘sertaneza’ (country) opera project.
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Elomar Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Elomar:
A Donzela Tiadora E a donzela Tiadora qui nas asa da aurora vei À sala…
A Meu Deus um Canto Novo Bem de longe na grande viagem, sobrecarregado para o descans…
A Pergunta Ô Quilimero Assusta meu irmão Iantes mêrmo que nóis dois sa…
Acalanto Certa vez ouvi contar que muito longe daqui Muito além do …
Cantada E então desperto e abro a janela ânsias, amores, alucinaçõe…
Cantiga de Amigo Lá na Casa dos Carneiros onde os violeiros Vão cantar louvan…
Cantiga do Estradar Cantiga do Estradar Geraldo Azevedo Composição: Elomar …
Canto de Guerreiro Mongoi%C3%B3 Uiúre iquê uatapí apecatú piaçaciara Unheên uaá uicú arauaqu…
Corban São sete mil léguas imendada de camin prêsse mundão largo …
Donzela Tiadora E a donzela Tiadora qui nas asa da aurora vei À sala…
Faviela A bença madia cabei de chegá do rêno das pedra das…
Incelença do amor retirante Vem amiga visitar A terra, o lugar Que você abandonou Inda o…
Joana flor das Alagoas Joana flor das alagoa Se alevanta e vem vê O truvão longe…
O Pedido Já que tu vai lá pra feira traga de lá para…
O Rapto de Joana do Tarugo Enfrentei fosso muralha e os ferros dos portais Só pela gra…
O violeiro Vô cantá no canturi primero As coisa lá da minha mudernage J…
Retirada Vai pela estrada enluarada Tanta gente a retirar Levando s…
seresta sertaneza Nos raios de luz de um beijo puro me estremeço e…
Tirana Inriba daquela serra passa u'a istrada rial Entre todos qui…
Zefinha Ô Zefinha O luar chegou meu bem Vamos pela estrada que teu…
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@alexandrerocha2262
ORÇAMENTO SECRETO É CRIME!
BOLSONARISMO É CRIME
GOLPISMO BOLSONARISTA É CRIME
GOLPE.MILITAR É CRIME
GENOCÍDIO É CRIME
PEDOFILIA É CRIME
TRÁFICO DE COCAÍNA É CRIME
LADROAGEM DA RACHADINHA É CRIME
BOLSOASNO CRIMINOSO!
@severinoperciliodossantos3636
GRANDE MESTRE E ARTISTA DE PRIMEIRA, ELOMAR FIGUEIRA DE MELO.👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸👋👋👋👋👋👋
@dr.valdavasiomoreiradeoliv4745
A alma (o homem interior) de Elomar anseia por Deus. Daí surge letras e canções maravilhosas. Ele interpreta esse sentimento de forma realista e filosófica aplicado a si mesmo e ao povo sofrido com o qual se identifica. O universo de Elomar é um mundo muito sentimental, compassivo, sofredor, pacífico, piedoso, bonito!... ( Uberlândia- MG).
@nathaliamoritannus1363
Me sinto uma rosa sem raízes. Que triste essa minha geração... As músicas de Eleomar tem um quê de eternidade. Deus seja louvado.
@FernandoBarbosa-mf5ll
Cara Nathália, o Panteão da música brasileira é muito grande, tem espaço pra muita gente. Partilho contigo o sentimento de eternidade ao ouvir a música do grande bardo. Há algumas, como "O Auto da Catingueira" que, passados mais de 20 anos desde a primeira vez que a escutei, ainda me faz chorar. Vida longa ao grande aedo!!!
@TangamandapioTanga
Me sinto como vc....
@joaobase1
Idem
@jairosmarcarlos4723
O grande Elomar. O que dizer do que é encantado? O menestrel de estradas e de sertão. Sertão tão baiana e meu pequeno chão... saudades
@paulosantos1427
Não canso de escutar essas musicas do Elemar....Peço a Deus, Deus do meu Deus....Louva Deus, quem não crêr , pede a Deus.....Qdo estou fatigado eu começo a escutar essas cançoēs de ninar
@joseweiss1
Lembro do gênio Elomar da época do disco de vinil 40 anos atrás e percebi ser uma pessoa especial muito além de seu tempo. Passado muitos anos, continua além desse tempo e espaço. Grato por sua genialidade compartilhada.
@pauloromualdofreitasjunior4765
Uma música dessa nem comento, só ouço, ouço, ouço e ouço!!!!