Heitor Villa-Lobos's Étude No. 4 ("de acordes repetidos"), part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953.

Structure The piece shows the influence of folk guitar music, is in G major, and is marked Un peu modéré .

Analysis Étude No. 4 is a chord study, but does not employ all of the harmonic and polyphonic resources of the instrument .

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Further reading Villa-Lobos, sua obra. 1989. Third edition. Rio de Janeiro: MinC-SPHAN/Pró-Memória, Museu Villa-Lobos. Online edition, 2009 Wright, Simon. 1992. Villa-Lobos. Oxford Studies of Composers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (cloth); (pbk).