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The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman (Port.: O trenzinho do caipira (Villa-Lobos 1952, 53)) is the subtitle for the Toccata movement that concludes an orchestral suite written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in 1930, titled ''Bachianas brasileiras No. 2''. The Toccata is approximately 4 to 5 minutes long. The subtitle refers to the local trains in the small communities of the Brazilian interior, the noises of which are imitated in the composition (Slonimsky 1945, 147). In the year of composition, 1930, Villa-Lobos transcribed this movement for cello and piano, titled simply ''O trenzinho do caipira''. This arrangement, which lasts about 2 minutes in performance, was premiered in São Paulo–Pirajuí in 1930, with Villa-Lobos himself playing the cello and João de Souza Lima the piano. The original, orchestral version was only first performed (in the context of the complete ''Bachianas No. 2'') on 3 September 1934, at the Venice International Festival, with an orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos (Appleby 1988, 64–65). An unrelated a cappella chorus composition by Villa-Lobos, ''Trenzinho'', setting a text by Catarina Santoro, was written in 1933, and premiered on 10 October 1939 by the Orfeão da Escola Argentina, conducted by the composer. Originally for three-part chorus, it was also adapted for four-part female chorus, in which form it was published in 1951 as number 31 in volume 2 of the composer's collection, ''Canto orfeônico'' (Appleby 1988, 79 and 111). ==References== *Appleby, David P. 1988. ''Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography''. Bio-Bibliographies in Music 9. New York, Westport, and London: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25346-3. *Slonimsky, Nicolas. 1945. ''Music of Latin America''. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. *Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1952. ''Bachianas brasileiras n. 2 per orchestra''. Milan: G. Ricordi & C. Editori. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Little Train of Caipira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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