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Seresta (music)
Seresta is a traditional Brazilian music style from the first half of the 20th century. The musician who plays seresta is called a ''seresteiro''. In the 1960s, the Museum of Seresta and Serenata () opened in Valença, Rio de Janeiro. The municipality also hosts events like the "Seresteiros Festival". Description Seresta music can be purely instrumental or accompanied by singing. Seresta is characterized by the amorous and nostalgic atmosphere of a Brazilian serenade with tempo variations. It is common for the genre to alternate between a sequential, expressive, and sentimental melody and a lively waltz with metrical ambiguity. Seresta is played with instruments like bandolin, acoustic guitar, accordion, flute, and cavaquinho and has a romantic thematic. Famous seresteiros * Guilherme de Brito * Vicente Celestino * Carlos José * Júlio Medaglia See also * Arrocha * Baião * Chôro * Frevo Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenada
Serenada is a census-designated place (CDP) in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,098 at the 2020 census. Those living in Serenada have Georgetown addresses. Geography Serenada is located at (30.687959, -97.698280). According to the United States Census Bureau in 2000, the CDP has a total area of 3.5 square miles (9.2 km2), all land. Prior to the 2010 census, part of the CDP was annexed to the city of Georgetown, decreasing the total area of , all land. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Serenada has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Demographics 2020 census 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 1,847 people, 641 households, and 580 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 651 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos José
Carlos José Ramos dos Santos (22 September 1934 – 9 May 2020), better known as simply Carlos José, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter of the genre seresta. Life He started his singing career at Um Instante Maestro, a radio program created by Flávio Cavalcanti and broadcast at Rádio Nacional Rio de Janeiro. Active from 1957 to 2020, José released eight studio albums and one extended play from 1959 to 2005, with two of them being a compilation of greatest hits. Aside from musical career, Carlos José also had a law degree, and practiced law for a couple of years before giving up to pursue a full time musical career. Personal life and death On 9 May 2020, José died in Rio de Janeiro due to complications brought on by COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has resulted in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, when a man from São Paulo who had travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sertanejo Music
Sertanejo music (pronunced seʁtaˈneʒu in Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian portuguese, or seɹtaˈneʒɵ in Caipira dialect), is a term used to refer to a musical style of Brazil. For some, it is the folk music of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, which emerged during the Colonial Brazil, Brazilian colonial period, and popularized in the 1920s,Música Sertaneja – Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira while others argue that it is a variation or urbanization of Caipira music, which is integrated into Caipira culture. Sertanejo is the most popular genre in the country, particularly throughout South Region, Brazil, Southern, Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeastern, and Central-West Region, Brazil, Center-western. Since the 1990s, is the most played music genre on Brazilian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frevo
Frevo is a dance and musical style originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word ''frevo'' is said to come from ''frever'', a variant of the Portuguese word ''ferver'' (to boil). It is said that the sound of the ''frevo'' will make listeners and dancers feel as if they are boiling on the ground. The word frevo is used for both the frevo music and the frevo dance. Origins of Frevo The frevo music came first. By the end of the 19th century, bands from the Brazilian Army regiments based in the city of Recife started a tradition of parading during the Carnival. Since the Carnival is originally linked to Catholicism, they played religious procession marches and martial music, as well. A couple of infantry and cavalry regiments had famous bands which attracted many followers amongst the populace of the state and it was just a matter of time to people start to compare one to another and cheer for their favorite bands. The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choro
''Choro'' (, "cry" or "lament"), also popularly called ''chorinho'' ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Despite its name, the music often has a fast and happy rhythm. It is characterized by virtuosity, improvisation and subtle modulations, and is full of syncopation and counterpoint. Choro is considered the first characteristically Brazilian genre of urban popular music. The serenaders who play choros are known as ''chorões''. Choro instruments Originally ''choro'' was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings). Other instruments commonly played in choro are the mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone. These melody instruments are backed by a rhythm section composed of 6-string guitar, seven-string guitar (playing bass lines) and light percussion, such as a pandeiro. The cavaquinho appears sometimes as a melody instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baião (music)
Baião () or "''baiano''"ALVARENGA, Oneyda. Música popular brasileira. Porto Alegre: Globo, 1960. pág. 157 is a Northeastern Brazilian music genre and dance style based on a syncopated duple meter rhythm, based around the pulse of the zabumba, a flat, double-headed bass drum played with a mallet in one hand and a stick in the other, each striking the opposite head of the drum for alternating high and low notes, frequently accompanied by an accordion and a triangle pattern. The baião rhythm is integral to the genres of forró, repente and coco (or embolada). Baião was popularized via radio in the 1940s, reaching peak popularity in the 1950s. Description Amerindian elements include the use of flutes, later replaced by the accordion, and wooden Shaker; African-influenced baião might be accompanied by atabaque drums and include overlapping call and response singing; and European influences include the use of the triangle, Western harmony, and dance music such as the quadril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrocha
''Arrocha'' is a music/dance style that originated in the interior of Bahia, one of Brazil's states, most notably in the city of Candeias. As with the '' seresta'' and the ''brega'', the styles from which it was generated, ''arrocha'' is a popular-oriented musical genre, whose thematic and musical lyrics are based on love stories of the people in both the interior and metropolitan regions of Bahia. Quickly spreading to success, it gained popularity in the Northeast region of Brazil. Nowadays it is popular all over the country. History In 2004, arrocha began gaining ground in many radio stations in Bahia. Some artists have helped spread arrocha and are now nationally recognized: Júlio Nascimento, Tayrone Cigano, Nara Costta, Asas Livres, Pablo, Grupo Arrocha, Márcio Moreno, Nano do Arrocha, Silvanno Salles, Ciel Rodrigues, Nara Costa, and Tatal Matos, considered "Queen of Arrocha,". The lyrics have much in common with Brega, with the addition of keyboard sounds and electroni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio Medaglia
Júlio Medaglia (born 1938) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, and conducting, conductor. Born in São Paulo (city), São Paulo, he studied theory and conducting with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, and privately with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sir John Barbirolli, with whom he worked as assistant conductor. After his return to Brazil in 1966, he established a solid reputation as a conductor, eventually working with all the major orchestras in the country, in addition to launching his career as arranger and composer of music for film and theater. In 1970, he worked with conductor Günther Schuller in the United States, U.S., and returned for another period of study in Germany, during which he produced several arrangements of Brazilian popular music and composed more than 100 Film score, scores for German television movies. Returning to Brazil in 1974, since then he has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
