Armorials Echoes: interview with Clóvis Pereira

Abstract

Clóvis Pereira is a Brazilian composer. He stands out for emphasizing in his compositions characteristics that are present in the popular cultures of the Northeast. This interest in his own culture is related to the life of the composer and to the classes he took, in the fifties of the 20^th century, with César Guerra-Peixe. In the late sixties, Clóvis Pereira was invited, by Ariano Suassuna, to be part of a group that wanted to create an authentically Brazilian art. Together with Jarbas Maciel and Cussy de Almeida, Clóvis Pereira was one of the artists responsible for creating the armorial music. Of the first three “armorial” musicians only Clóvis Pereira is alive. In 2017 I interviewed him for a research on armorial influences in the current music. In this text we present the main excerpts of this interview, with the aim of registering it and making it available.