jazztech
Registered: 08/04/08
Posts: 162
|
|
|
Reply with quote | #1 |
I am learning a little more and more about Brasilian music and I had no idea what choro was/is or that it is such a very old form of Brasilian music. Joaquim_Antonio_(Callado)_da_Silva, was an earlier composer of choro who died in 1880. Ragtime as history records did not start until the 1870's, so it's not to much of a stretch to think that choro was around before ragtime, or at least they had similar time lines.
Seresta Carioca - A Brief History of Choro by Ellen Collison http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/92/brazil.html shares some interesting information on the matter of choro.
I had always thought that American music influenced all others simply because the US invented the technology for recording. The player piano and the phonograph. Truth is Edison invented the phonograph to try and help the hearing impaired.
And it was sheer luck that some smuck stumbled upon recording the marches of Sousa simply because the acoustic instruments recorded well on their primitive equipment. Did the music of Brasil, at least in the early days developed on its own? I don't see why not.
The gentleman standing to the right of Pixinguinha is holding a musical instrument that looks like a small Banjo. Does anyone know what the heck that instrument is? Don't tell me those cats weren't ahead of their time.
Note:
The American composer John Phillips Sousa's grandparents on his fathers side were Portuguese.
__________________
Embrace our similarities, celebrate and learn from our differences. Peace |
| |
pardal
Moderator
Registered: 05/20/07
Posts: 241
|
|
|
Reply with quote | #2 |
Common wisdom is that Donga adopted the banjo, but that's bandolim player José Alves holding it there. |
| |
jazztech
Registered: 08/04/08
Posts: 162
|
|
|
Reply with quote | #3 |
In honor of Tia Ciata, I gotta give much props to, Chiquinha_Gonzaga who was a colleague and friend of Joaquim_Antonio_(Callado)_da_Silva. She was also one of the creators of Choro, a composer, educated as well as an educator, single mother and helped abolish slavery in Brasil.
__________________
Embrace our similarities, celebrate and learn from our differences. Peace |
| |
