Brazilian_Music

Brazilian Music Music, especially in Brazil, is an expression of feelings, because one’s words can be interpreted with sounds in many different ways. The music from Brazil slowly developed itself with the development of the nation. Brazilian music has several countries that have added to its’ development of both rhythm and choreography. Portugal and Africa have had the most influence on the development of Brazilian music (Appleby 2). According to David Appleby, the most well known Brazilian dramatic dance and music are the lundu, choro and samba. Lundu is an African originated religious song and dance that was brought to Brazil by slaves in the early 1600’s. Because of its’ sensuality among couples it was originally condemned by the church and began to slowly deflect itself to a more salon type music. Traditionally, the lundu would use a duple meter in which the stanza was “declamatory”. This form of music became very popular in the 17th and 18th century until it progressed into the 19th century not only to music but into poetry as well. Today it’s considered the father to more popular Brazilian music, such as the samba, and the maxixe, music, brazilian, brazil, samba, appleby, de, very, popular, rio, instruments, first, began, added, throughout, style, pattern, musical, it’s, international, composer, century, anthem, african, urban, type, today, styles, salon, rhythm, prominent, portuguese, polka, note, lundu, janeiro, its’, itself, development, dance, considered, cavaquinho, because, became, year, wrote, world, words, villa-lobos, verse, versatile