Choro: Type of Popular Music in Brazil
The choro which is literally cry in Portuguese, but in context a more appropriate translation would be lament, traditionally known as ...
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The
choro which is literally cry in Portuguese, but in context a more appropriate
translation would be lament, traditionally known as chorinho (little cry or
little lament). The instrumental which its origins are in 19th
century Rio de Janeiro, originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar
and cavaquinho (a small chordphone with four strings). The young pianist
Ernesto Nazareth published his first choro (Nao Caio Noutra in 1878 at the age
of 14). The Nazareth’s choros are often listed as a polkas, he also sing
waltzes, schottisches, milongas and Brazilian Tangos. He resisted the famous
term Maxixe to represent the Brazilian tango, the Chiquinha Gonzaga was another
significant singer of the choros and began shortly after the Nazareth.
Chiquinha Gonzaga composed her first success, the polka-choro Atraente, in the
year 1877. The beginning of the success of the choro came from the informal orchestras
of the friends which played in the parties, pubs (botecos), streets, homes
balls (forrobodos) and also the musical score published by print houses. By the
1910, many of the Brazilians that are the first phonography records is choros.
The mainstream success of this pattern of the music by the 1930s that came from
the early days of then radio, when the groups performed live on the air. At the
end of 1950 and 1960’s it was replaced by the samba and Bossa nova and other
patterns of Brazilian famous music, but still it live as the amateur circles
which is known as the rodas de choro which is informal choro gathering in residences and botecos. However, the late
1970’s was a successful effort to revitalize the genre which was carried out by
some of the well-known artists like Pixinguinha, Waldir Azevedo and Jacob do
Bandolim.
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