THE SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANO BY RONALDO MIRANDA: MUSIC, POETRY, PERFORMANCE, AND PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION Abstract: Ronaldo Miranda tem se tornado um expoente da música brasileira tanto no Brasil, quanto no exterior. O presente texto relata a pesquisa de doutorado já concluída sobre suas oito canções para voz e piano. Os objetivos principais foram: 1) prover uma guia de performance tanto para cantor quanto para pianista nas oito canções acima referidas com sugestões que servem de base para decisões interpretativas com ênfase no papel dramáticos dos performeers e 2) promover a canção de câmara brasileira facilitando o acesso ao idioma português através da tradução dos poemas para o idioma inglês e transcrição dos mesmos para o do Alfabeto Fonético internacional (IPA). Facsimilesdo manuscrito do compositor também fizeram parte do texto final. Key-words: Canção de câmara brasileira, Ronaldo Miranda, diçcão lírica, performance guide to Brazilian artsong. One of the heritages of Romanticism is the concept of song as Lied, a song in which voice and piano have equal responsibility in conveying the deepest meaning of a poem. Brazilian classical composers have a particular attraction for this instrumentation. Heitor Villa-Lobos, Francisco Mignone and Camargo Guarnieri have all demonstrated mastery in the art of song writing. This tradition of excellence in song composition continues in the art songs of an important living Brazilian composer, Ronaldo Miranda. Ronaldo Miranda is one of the leading figures in contemporary Brazilian music. His musical output includes compositions for piano (solo, piano four-hands and duo pianos), instrumental solo (flute, cello, harpsichord, guitar, and clarinet), chamber ensemble, and orchestra, besides numerous choral works, two operas, eight songs for voice and piano and three pieces for voice with other instrumentation. Miranda has written eight songs for voice and piano: “Cantares” [Song]4 (also in a version for voice, harpsichord, flute and viola da gamba), “Segredo” [Secret], Retrato [Picture], “Soneto da separação” [Separation Sonnet], “Desenho leve” [Light Drawing] and the cycle Três canções simples [Three Simple Songs] (“Visões [Visions] ,” “Noite e dia [Night and Day],” and “Cotidiano [Daily Life]”). In addition, he has composed five songs with other instrumentations: Unterwegs, three lieder on poems by Hermann Hesse for voice and orchestra; “Trajetória” [Trajectory] for soprano, flute, clarinet, piano,