A watercolor on paper by Silvano Abreu Cardoso founder and conductor of the same band. It is framed with a photograph of the foundation of the Banda do Arco de São Jorge. The religiosity of its president is well evident in this image, in homage to the Blessed Virgin of Our Lady of Fátima. The Band is consecrated and delivered to the care of Our Lady of Fátima, patron of the group.
In this book, the authors with the collaboration of the entire Band Direction as well as the Municipal Entities, creatively portray the crucial moments of this long journey, in which the quality of the Concerts presented is an indelible mark. Throughout 17 chapters, it is the soul of the most dedicated to the BRC that pulsates in unconcerned care and dedication, testimonies of life allied to documents that an accurate search allowed to find. It’s a different book, one that does not wear out or get tired. On the contrary, it presents in the will, allied to the affections, the…
After 75 years, the BRC was founded, its founders are no longer part of the world of the living, as are many others who, with blood, sweat and tears, have been building this beautiful work. Much of its history is already forever immersed in the darkness of oblivion and so that the rest is not lost, so that the present and future ones will know something of what was the heroic effort and all those who have integrated this collective, from the its troubled foundation to this day. The purpose of this book is to make an aspiration of the…
In the past, the registration of the festivities realized by the band was in books like that in the image, and others exposed in this platform. In these books, it was written the names of the musicians who composed the band, the value received, it is possible to know who is the conductor (usually the musician better paid), the value for the Band, the value for the bass and snare drum and cymbals, in some cases the value of the transport (steamboat, train) and also, a graceful to the “festeiro” paying him a drink. It is also possible to check…
Greeting card of Christmas and a Happy New Year.
One of the ways that philharmonic bands use to record some of the most important dates and perpetuate them in time, is through the creation of medals. In the image we have on one side the current name of the band (Banda Municipal de Câmara de Lobos), the date of the foundation (18/11/1972), the name of the band when it was founded (Recreio dos Lavradores) and the logo. On the other side we have the reference of the locality where it has its headquarters and how it could not miss a treble clef. In this case we have a medal…
For the admission of new associates to the musical collectivities it is necessary to fill out a registration form. Depending on each band, we can find several categories of members, where each category corresponds to a membership fees amount to pay, and the payment can be made monthly or annually. The categories and the amount of the membership fees are usually presented and approved at the general meeting of the band. In general, there are paying members or contributors, the effective members, who are the musicians and executive, and finally the honorary member, who are personalities who have done and…
For the proper functioning of a philharmonic band exists the statutes, that in general defines the operation of a collectivity. In addition to the statutes, collectives felt the need to apply a set of rules that went beyond the statutes, for which the internal regulations were created. These regulations describe a set of rules in a more exhaustive and precise way, the rights and duties of the musicians, the fines to be applied, the way of performing in the services and the operation of the tests. In general, a set of norms by which the artistic section of the band…
One of the ways to perpetuate the history of a philharmonic band is through the writing of a book. In this particular case we have the book of the Banda do ARco de São Jorge, which was written by its founder Silvano Cardoso. This book is described the period before the foundation until 1940. It is possible to read in this book how the process of formation of the band until its foundation was. It includes the way the future musicians were chosen, the necessary requirements and all the preparation for the day of the foundation. In this book it…
The records of the members composing a collectivity were made in book. They served as a form of control and also a way of having the affiliation contacts is a way of recording all the activities of this musician in the band. When they started the theory and the instrument, even the date they finished their apprenticeship. It’s a way of having a person’s records. In this case we have the musician’s number, the full name of the future musician, date of registration, place of birth, marital status, name of the father and mother, beginning of the theory and instrument,…
Saxophone is a transposing wind instrument, from the family of woods, with a single reed (canario heteroglota) or plastic and conical (or parabolic) metal (brass or copper, bronze or silver), with twenty-two to twenty-four large holes and two small register holes, covered with keys. Aerophone clarinet subcategory, the saxophone is distinguished from this instrument by the construction of the cone body or parabolic – so an open tube, allowing the execution, for specific fingerprinting, fundamental harmonics and harmonics odd and even. Invented circa 1840 by the builder of Belgian ancestry Adolphe Sax, who at the time had specialized, with his…
Ivory colored fabric banner with golden edge. To the center two palm trees are crossed by a musical staff with clave de sol and two quarter notes. Above the palm trees, the legend in black with bow “Banda Musical da Casa do Povo de Nª Sra. da Piedade”. Underneath the palm trees the legend in black in the first line “Fundada em 12-05-1988” and in the next line “Porto Santo”.
Created during the institution’s 75 years of activity, the flag of the Banda Recreio Camponês, of white cloth with green border, takes to the center the emblem described above, with minor alterations: the golden lira is flanked on the left by the branch of vineyard and the right by the chestnut branch, enclose in the base by scarlet tie, settling under the lyre listel of white background with denomination to gold “Banda Recreio Camponês”; at the base, below the scarlet lace, white listel that marks the ephemeris: “1910-1985”.
The flag of the Banda Municipal Paulense is composed of white fabric with green margin. At the center the emblem of the band.
