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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Brazilian jazz (section Música instrumental Brasileira)
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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Music of Brazil (section Choro)
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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Brasileirinho (redirect from Brasileirinho (choro))
(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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