This book clarifies the musical dramaturgy of comedy writer and musician Luiz Carlos Martins Penna - a notion that encompasses both the theatrical text and its performance. The corpus for this analysis is composed of twelve comedies by Martins Penna written between 1833 and 1846, divided into three groups, which we have called Lundu, Aria, and Hallelujah. The sound universe made ​​up by the three groups of comedies covers African-Brazilian genres and musical-choreographic styles (batuque, fado, lundu, miudinho), the transnational urban popular universe (lundu, tirana, quadrilha,...