In general, the symbolic representation in music as expression, memory, and image is based on cultural imaginary, following the process of appropriation as process of reinvention supported on cultural immersion. These processes are rooted on imagetic structures (scemas) that organizes our mental representations on abstract level. So, in appropriation process treated from the field of signification, the representative values lead to an intersection between composition and cultural experience. At the same time, it represents a challenge of cultural immersion; for example, an memory experience. In this apparent paradoxical ideas, appropriation emerges as representative values, myth, images, imagetic, land/soundscapes, and so on. To this end, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) has developed a broad and varied of sound images of nature, cultures, and styles in the representation of an idealized Brazil. Symbolism and signification are disseminated through out his great number of works. Furthermore, Villa-Lobos was an effective composer in the construction of a specific sonority, developing a sound identity to an identity of society, i.e. representativeness of cultural elements into his compositional process. It can be used as a villalobian desire to build a “Brazil sonority” symbolically immersed in Brazilian cultural diversity. Therefore, Villa-Lobos' appropriation process goes by expressive discourse to portrait different realities. This presentation tries to reconsider Villa-Lobos' music and its relationship to Brazilian musical hybridism and to identify the use of Brazilian elements as a means to realize his symbolic representative in the development of sound images. An existential semiotic-based analytical approach intends to show strategies for narrative-discourse musical approach, especially if one explores the mechanics of composition and expression. However, it aims to clarify how Villa-Lobos establishes connections between symbolic representation and appropriation processes, promoting topics for discussion about the symbolical and the semiotical in Villa-Lobos, understanding representative signs as an way to bring an external reality to his music.