Indigenous and Folk Music of Brazil

The native of the peoples of the Brazilian rainforest play instruments which include whistles, flutes, horns, drums, and rattles, most of the area’s traditional music imitates the sounds of the Amazon rainforest. When the Portuguese came into Brazil, the first natives they met played a collection of reed flutes and other wind and drum instruments. The Jesuit missionaries brought the songs which used the Tupi language with Christian lyrics, and attempted to convert the people to Christianity and also brought Gregorian song and the flute, bow and the clavichord.

 

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The earliest music in what is now Brazil must have been that of the native people of the place; some are known about their music, since no written records exist of this period, with the arrival of Europeans, Brazilian culture statured to take shapes as a mixture of native musical patterns with Portuguese music and Africa music.