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BARRETO (Mascarenhas). FADO: Origens Líricas e Motivação Poética. Lisboa. - BARRETO (Mascarenhas) FADO: Origens Líricas e Motivação Poética . Ilustrações de José Pedro Sobreiro/Versão Inglesa de George Dykes. Lisboa: Aster, 0. 590, [2] pp., 1 mapa: il.; 290 mm. First edition. Mascarenhas Barreto (literary name of Augusto Cassiano Neves da Silveira de Mascarenhas de Andrade Barreto, 1923-2017), writer, poet, musicologist and historian with a vast and diverse body of work, dedicated continuous attention to fado, which materialized in several publications, this being the most developed from the point of view of research into the origins of the genre. This volume approaches fado from a simultaneously lyrical and poetic perspective, seeking to trace its roots in the forms of versification and musical expression of the Iberian and Atlantic traditions, with incursions into the Brazilian modinha, the lundum, and the Arab and Provençal heritage. The work constitutes one of the most systematic attempts to theoretically ground the origins of fado at a time when the debate about its genealogy was still very incipient in Portuguese bibliography, and remains an unavoidable reference in studies on the genre, cited by the Fado Museum and in international academic publications. The edition is bilingual, with parallel text in Portuguese and English. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate