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A Short Introduction To Choro. |
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Exerpts by Jørgen Larsen. Source: from ABOUT CHORO MUSIC |
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The Brazilian choro is a music style originated in Rio de Janeiro, in the 19th century. Choro evolved from a blend of Eropean styles like polkas, waltzes and mazurkas and African-Brazilian rhythms. The result was a sophisticated, polyrhythmic, lively music which demanded the best from its performers. Poor people, most of them former slaves and mestizos, put toghether their own musical style with instruments like flute, clarinet, guitar, cavaquinho and light percussion (pandeiro, tamborim and shakers). The music would be played at private parties in the backyards of family homes, however, over the years choro became a form of popular chamber music that would influenze many Brazilian composers such as Heitor Villa-Lobos, Jobim and Hermeto Pascoal. The word ‘choro’ means “cry” or ‘the act of crying’, and one of the masters of the choro style, Jacob do Bandolim, has said that choro is a collection of music to make people cry – not of sadness, but of happiness! Choro is a popular urban phenomenon, typically from the middle and low classes, which occurred in the city of Rio de Janeiro between 1870 and 1880. From 1870 on, this authentic Brazilian genre was started with the compositions of the flutist Antonio da Silva Callado (1846-1880), and was consolidated by the composer, arranger, flutist, and conductor Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, nicknamed Pixinguinha (1897-1973). |
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Antonio da Silva Callado (1846-1880) |
Pixinguinha (1897-1973) |
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Links: a brief history of choro |
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Choro, a short introduction
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Pixinguinha |
Jacob do Bandolim
Guitar Choro part one | part two | part three | part four | part five | part six |
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