Brazil

Brazil

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=== Brazilian music is full of passion, of sentiment. Since there is no written records exist of this era, little is know about their music. With the arrival of Europeans, Brazilian culture began to change as the summation of native musical styles with the European, music and the African music. ===



=== The indigenous Brazilian music. Native people of the Brazilian rainforest play instruments like, flutes, horns, rattles, guitars, drums and whistles. In other parts of Brazil, there was a rhythm section sounds made from frying pans, cuícas, which are barrels with a membrane and stick inside that creats wheezing kind of sounds, and tambourines. When the Portuguese came to Brazil, the first natives they met played an array of reed flutes and other wind instruments. ===

=== The Jesuit missionaries then introduced songs with Christian lyrics, attempting to convert the people to become a Christian. A type of regional popular music is forró. It is also a kind of dance that was developed from European styles of folk music. It is part of the Brazilian traditional culture, and it celebrates Catholic saints. There are three types of rhythm, xoto (slow), baião (original speed), and arrasta-pé, the fastest of the three. There are different dances for these tempos, depending different parts of Brazil. The instruments used are: accordions, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum it, electric guitar, fiddle, pandeiro (like a tambourine), shaker, triangle, and zambumba drums, like bass drums. === ===media type="file" key="Canção - Brazilian Folk Song, Played by Nylon Tapestry.mp4" width="203" height="97"media type="file" key="musica etnica ethnic world music tribale Brasileira brazil.flv" width="201" height="106"=== [] []

By: Veronica and Erwin