DISCOS FONOGRÁFICOS COMO FONTE DE PESQUISA

UMA METODOLOGIA DE ANÁLISE, COM ÊNFASE NAS GRAVAÇÕES ACÚSTICAS BRASILEIRAS (1902-1927)

Abstract

Against a backdrop of growing interest in the music of the first decades of the 20th century and with the aim of supporting musicological research and curatorial procedures for maintaining sound collections, this article proposes a methodology for analyzing phonograph shellac discos, with an emphasis on acoustic Brazilian recordings (1902-1927), but which can also be applied to records from other eras and origins. The proposed procedures are based on the principle that discs in their materiality are not just mere supports for phonograms, but important sources of research that must be carefully analyzed using clearly explained methods. The central part of the methodology consists of a proposal to standardize the transcription of the information on the label and the body of the discs. A glossary of morphological terms and a typology of Brazilian phonographic labels from the acoustic recording phase is provided, including illustrations of most of them.