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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of Brazilian song. It discusses how Portuguese colonization in 1500 introduced music to Brazil. Key composers from the colonial period helped establish genres like the modinha. The arrival of the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro in 1808 further influenced Brazilian music. The document outlines some of the major composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries who helped transition Brazilian song to new styles while preserving aspects of indigenous and folk influences. It also notes how urban genres like samba and bossa nova were adapted into classical song forms.

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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of Brazilian song. It discusses how Portuguese colonization in 1500 introduced music to Brazil. Key composers from the colonial period helped establish genres like the modinha. The arrival of the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro in 1808 further influenced Brazilian music. The document outlines some of the major composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries who helped transition Brazilian song to new styles while preserving aspects of indigenous and folk influences. It also notes how urban genres like samba and bossa nova were adapted into classical song forms.

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    Panorama of Brazil Song

    Lenine Santos, Ph.D.


    ● 5th biggest country in the world
    ● Independence 1822
    ● Discovered by Portuguese 1500
    ● Only Country that speaks Portuguese in Americas
    ● 274 different languages including native languages
    ● Different dialects of Portuguese
    ● Last country to abolish slavery

    Referential Composers:
    ● José Maurício Nunes Garcia
    ● Carlos Gomes
    ● Alberto Nepomuceno
    ● Heitor Villa-Lobos
    ● Camargo Guarnieri
    ● Gilberto Mendes
    ● Almeida Prado
    ● Edmundo Villani Côrtes
    ● Jayme Ovalle
    ● Ernani Braga

    Songs:
    ● Keng Sabi by Antonio Carlos Gomez

    Colonial Beginnings:
    ● Modinha: 1st Brazilian gender of song from beginning of the 18th century and even
    before
    ● Mutual influence on the modinha from Portugal and from Brazil - Italian influences
    ● “Hei-de Amar’te Até Morrer” (Anonymous from the 19th Century)
    ● Rhythm cinco would become characteristic of Brazilian Song

    Some composers of Colonial period


    ● Francisco Manuel de Silva: Brazilian National Anthem
    ● Louis Moreau Gottschalk: AMerican composer who went to Brazil
    ● João Francisco Leal: “Collecçao de Modinhas de Bom Gosto”

    1808
    ● Portuguese Court Arrives in Rio de Janeiro, bringing musicians, composers, singers
    ● Marcos Portugal
    ● Pe. José Maurício Nunes Garcia
    Antonio Carlos Gomes
    ● Modinhas and cancoes left the imperial salon for street
    ● Transformed into serestas
    ● Assimilated by the voice of the population
    ● When he went to Italy, he wrote Italian songs.

    Alberto Nepomuceno
    ● More classical
    ● “The people that does not sing in its own language has no country”
    ● Director of the National School of Music in Rio de Janeiro
    ● Lead the transition to the 20th century as a leader among Brazilian composers

    Vocal Style in the Performance of Brazilian Music


    ● Mário de Andrade
    ○ “The European timbre of the bel canto takes away from Brasilian music”
    ● Almeida Prada
    ○ Dia Seguiente

    Urban Influences in Brazilian Music


    ● Urban genres adapted to classical song
    ○ Serenades (serenatas, serestas, cantigas, Modinhas)
    ○ Samba (including Bossa Nova)
    ○ Waltzes
    ○ Brazilian Tangoes
    *Acalanto da Rosa by Claudio Santoro

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