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Welcome to the Brazil Music Site


Chorinhos

Brazil has a lot of hardly known music styles that are very interesting to get to know.
First of all to mention Chorinhos. This style is even in Brazil nowadays a little bit unknown with the younger generation. It appeared in the beginning of the century and one of the best known and also one of the best song to represent the style is the chorinho called Brasileirinho of the composer Charles Azevedo (… to ..) composed in .
Another well-known representative song is Tico Tico do Fuba of the composer ..
The chorinho-style is typically played on the 4 string cavaquinho, a jukelile type of instrument. Sometimes the solo-instrument is a flauta. Chorinhos are normally fast melodies and solos accompanied by a samba-type of rhythm played with pandeiro, 7-string acoustic guitars, base and other percussion.
One of the best players and composer of many well-known chorinhos was Jacob do Bandolim. Instead of a cavaquinho as solo-instrument he used the 8-string bandolim and he composed many very nice songs like: Assanhado, Doce de coco, …..

More very good chorinhos are:

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Complete list of chorinhos by composer:

Pagode


Pagode is a variation of samba. Even quick it is slightly slower but with more melody and string instruments as well as percussion. A pagoda group normally consists of a pandeiro, a timba percussion, one or more cavaquinhos who are the base of the rhythm with typical fast beats. The pattern of these beats are irregular, -… And together with the pandeiro they make the swing of the music. Then there is a normal 6 or a 7 string guitar and more percussion instruments. One or more male or female singers.

Very popular artists like Zeca Pagodinho, Martinho da Vila, Clara Nunes, Jorge Arragão play pagode as well as the bands Revelação, Fundo do Quintão

Popular songs that demonstrate well the style:

Deixa a vida me lever
Devagar
Revelação-

More good pagode songs are:

Complete list of pagode:

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Samba  

There are many styles in the samba itself like samba enredo (…) samba canção … but the best known samba is the samba as played by the samba-schools in Rio. These are not schools but are called escola de samba because they are clubs, many times associated with their neighourhood who prepare the whole year for the ´desfile´ the big show at the Sambadrome with carnival. These clubs/schools have may members and the groups consist of hundreds or thousands of players and dancers. It is mainly percussion instruments which all together make an enormous steady and fast rhythm sound on which many sing the samba songs of their club.
Good examples are …
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These are mainly concentrated in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Axé Music

Salvador – Bahia È o tchan, Araketu, Asa de aguia, … Carlinhos Brown, Yvette Sangalo, Daniela Mercury, Olodum, Babada Novo

 

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