History of Music in Brazil
The Brazilian music includes different regional music patterns that are influenced by the African European and the Amerindian forms. A...
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The
Brazilian music includes different regional music patterns that are influenced by
the African European and the Amerindian forms. After 500 years of its history,
the Brazilian music created some important and original patterns such as samba,
zouk-lamada, lambada, zouk, choro, bossa nova, frevo, forro, maracatu, MPB,
funk carioca, RAP, sertanejo, Brazilian rock, pagoda, tropicalia, axe, bega,
and some others. The samba has become the best well-known form of the Brazilian
music worldwide, especially because of the country’s carnival, while bossa
nova, which had Antonio Carlos Jobim as one of its main acclaimed composers and
performers that have received much attention across the world since the 1950s,
when the song Desaffinado was interpreted by Joao Gilberto, and he was the
first to release.
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The
instrumental music is also a largely practical in Brazil, with the pattern ranging
from the classical to the popular and jazz influenced forms, the featuring
composers such as the Heitor Villa-Lobos, Pixinguinha and Hermeto Pascoal, the
country also has a growing community of the recent composition which include
the electroacoustic music.
