Os conceitos de tempo, duração e ritmo de Bergson na música popular brasileira: uma análise da canção Oração ao tempo, de Caetano Veloso.

The aim of this article is to discuss and apply to the studies on Brazilian popular music the concepts about time, duration and rhythm of the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941), based on the intricate relationship among melody, musical arrangement, lyrics and performance that integrates popular song. The popular song will be considered as a complex object composed of the relationships between music, lyrics and performance. For this purpose, we develop the philosopher's concepts of time, duration and rhythm, and analyze, with these references, the song Oração ao tempo (Prayer to the time), by the Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso, 2nd track on his album Cinema Transcendental (Philips/Poly-Gram), released in 1979. As a result, the notion of time is perceived as flow and as origin of the empathy that the song causes in the listener. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]