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    Choro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃoɾu], "cry" or "lament"), also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian...
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  • Chôros is the title of a series of compositions by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, composed between 1920 and 1929. The word chôro (Portuguese...
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  • Samba-choro is a subgenre of samba that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in early 1930s in Brazil. It was a syncopated hybrid fusion of samba with the Brazilian...
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  • several instrumental forms of art music drawing on national styles such as choro, samba and bossa nova. The term's ambiguity allows for the fact that Brazilian...
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    Chôros No. 1 (Chôro típico brasileiro) is a 1920 composition for guitar by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Villa-Lobos composed Chôros No. 1 in...
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    axé, sertanejo, samba, bossa nova, MPB, gaucho music, pagode, tropicália, choro, maracatu, embolada (coco de repente), frevo, brega, modinha and Brazilian...
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    Guinle [pt], to whom Villa-Lobos would also dedicate Chôros No. 5. It was premiered at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro on 19 September 1925 by Ary...
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  • (Little Brazilian) is a 1947 choro composed by Waldir Azevedo. It is considered one of the most successful and influential choros of all time; this standard...
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  • Choro das 3 is a three-sister Brazilian instrumental music group, which plays a style known as Choro (pronounced Shoro). Corina (transversal flute), Elisa...
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    Gonçalo do Amarante – March 27, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian Choro singer, a genre of music that fuses popular European music and the music...
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