Vasco Martins

**Vasco Martins** nyɛla Cape Verdean yiliyiina mini ŋun niŋdi binkumda niŋdi yila ni . Bɛ dɔɣi o la Queluz, Portugal, yuuni 1956, saha ŋɔ o pa bela Calhau, Cape Verde.

## Compositions
### Symphonies

* *Symphony No. 1: "Celebração do equinócio de Março"* (*Celebration of the Spring Equinox*)
*1998-2002 rev. 2004: *Symphony No. 2:: "Erupção"* (*"Eruption"*), for orchestra
* *Symphony No. 3 "Arquipélago magnético"* (*Magnetic Archipelago*), for orchestra
*# Assim
*# melodicamente em três partes
*# Final generoso (expressão jubilosa)
*2001: *[[Symphony No. 4 (Martins)|Symphony No. 4]]: "Buda Dharma"*, (*"Buddha Dharma"*), for orchestra
**Symphony No. 5: "Oriente"* (*"Eastern"*), for orchestra
*# norte (North)
*# este (East)
*# oeste (West)
*# sul (South)
*# nadir (Nadir)
*# zenite (Zenith)
* *Symphony No. 6: "[[Monte Verde, Cape Verde|Monte Verde]]" (Pandion halieatus)*, for orchestra
* *Symphony No. 7: "Alba"*, for orchestra
* *Symphony No. 8: "A procura da Luz" (The search for light)*, for orchestra
* *Symphony No. 9*, for orchestra 

### Instrumental music
* *4 Notas na cidade do Mindelo* (*4 Notes on the City of Mindelo*), solo clarinet
* *Anámnesis*, guitar
* *Concert*, guitar
* *Dôs temp p'um valsa*, clarinet, in São Vicente Crioulo
* *Musique pour adoucir le Coeur*, in French

### Other works
* 1989 *Danças de Câncer*, symphonic suite
*# Abertura (Overture)
*# Pulsações (Pulsations)
*# Noites mágicas (Magic Nights)
*# Terra vulcânica (Volcanic Land)
* *A garça por cima das ondas*
* *Clara Luz*, (*Clear Light*)
* *Golfinhos no horizonte*
* *Oceano no coração* (*Ocean With a Heart*)
* *Calmas tardes no Monte Verde* (*Calm Winds in Monte Verde*)
* *Tardes caminhando* (*Afternoons on a Lane*)

## Discography

### Albums
*1979: Vibrações (*Vibrations*)
*1985: Para além da noite
*1987: Oceano imenso (*Immense Ocean*)
*1989: Quinto mundo
*1995: Quiet moments
*1995: Ritual periférico (*Peripheral Ritual*)
*1995: Eternal cycle
*1996: Island of the secret sounds
*1997: Sublime delight
*1997: Memórias atlânticas (*Atlantic Memories*)
*1998: Danças de Câncer
*2000: Apeiron
*2001: Dôs
*2001: Lunário perpétuo
*2007: 4 sinfonias (*4 Symphonies*)
*2009: Lua água clara (*Clear Water Moon*)
*2010: Li Sin
*2012: Azuris
*2014: Twelve Moons (CD-r)

### Chamber music
**Primeiras Meditações* (*First Meditations*), with a flute, cello piano, violin and a guitar
**Azul Ibérico* (*Iberic Blue*), string quartet
**Azul Caboverdiano* (*Cape Verdean Blue*), string quartet

### Piano works
**Piano Azul* (*Blue Piano*) (1998)
**Amendoeira celeste*
**Amornando*
* *Lua de Abril* (*April Moon*)
* *Lua de Dezembro* (*December Moon*)
* *Luz e sombra no deserto* (*Light and Sleep in the Desert*)
* *Memória da água* (*Memories of Water*)
* *Orion*
* *Peregrinações*
* *Ventos oceânicos* (*Ocean Winds*)

### Guitar works
* *Deserto subtil* (*Subtle Desert*)
* *Estudo* (*Studies*)
* *Gesto flutuante*
* *Molto continuum*
* *Num varanda*
* *Prelúdio*
* *Sattva*
* *Situações triangulares* (*Triangular Situations*)

### Electronic music
* *Apeiron*
* *Divinas of S. Nicolau*
* *Lunario Perpetuo* (*Lunar Perpetuary*)
* *Ocean-Light*
* *Ocean and Moon*
* *Sarva Mangalam*
* *Sublime Delight*

## Musicals
### Operas

## Literary works
**Música Tradicional Cabo-verdiana* (*Cape Verdean Traditional Music*)
***Vol. I - A morna* (*Vol. I - Morna*)

### Poems
**Universo da Ilha* (*Island Universe*), 1986
**Navegam os olhares com o voo do pássaro*, 1989
**Run Shan*, 2008

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Official website (in Portuguese and English)