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According to Hiram Araújo da Costa, over the centuries, the festival of dances of slaves in Bahia were called samba. [2] Samba de Roda was the main form of circle dance, provenient from the Candomblé Afro-Brazilian Tradition. During the mid-19th century, the word referred to several types of music made by enslaved Africans. [3]
A capoeira roda in Farroupilha Park, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007). Roda (Portuguese pronunciation: - wheel or circle) is the circular formation within which participants perform in any of several African and Afro-Brazilian dance art forms, such as engolo, capoeira, maculelê and samba de roda.
[16] [121] Although the samba practiced in the festivities of Bahian communities in Rio was an urban stylization of the ancestral "samba de roda" in Bahia, [122] characterized by a high party samba with refrains sung to the marked rhythm of the palms and the plates shaved with knives, this samba it was also influenced by the maxixe. [123]
Musically, Ilê Aiyê's major innovations to samba were the addition of a new 3rd surdo playing rapid rolls with two mallets, the addition of a reggae backbeat played by the snare drums (caixas), and the creation of a new clave pattern that is a blend of samba-de-roda clave with a reggae backbeat.
By comparison, traditionally in Bahia the chula is the free form song text of the Samba de Roda sung between the dances (as in the samba parada) and defines the structures of the various other "styles" of samba de roda, while the samba corrido lasts as long as the singer feels like singing it before moving on to another.
Performed by many capoeira groups, samba de roda is a traditional Brazilian dance and musical form that has been associated with capoeira for many decades. The orchestra is composed by pandeiro , atabaque , berimbau-viola (high pitch berimbau), chocalho , accompanied by singing and clapping.
Forró is the most popular genre of music and dance in Brazil's Northeast, [citation needed] to the extent that historically "going to the forró" meant simply going to party or going out. [ citation needed ] The music is based on a combination of three instruments ( accordion , zabumba and a metal triangle).
Música popular brasileira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmuzikɐ popuˈlaʁ bɾaziˈlejɾɐ], Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as jazz and rock.