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Little is known of the music of Brazil before the area's first encounter with Portuguese explorers on 22 April 1500. During the colonial period, documents detail the musical activities of the major Roman Catholic cathedrals and the parlors of the upper classes, but data about musical life outside these domains are sparse.
Suyá music is the music of the Suyá people, a tribe of about 150 [citation needed] people who live on the Suyá-Miçu River and are native to Mato Grosso, Brazil.Their houses are set up in a circle around the village square, where the majority of their ceremonies take place.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; ... The following is a chronological list of Brazilian classical composers: Baroque. António ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
The music of ancient Rome borrowed heavily from the music of the cultures that were conquered by the empire, including music of Greece, Egypt, and Persia. Music accompanied many areas of Roman life; including the military, entertainment in the Roman theater, religious ceremonies and practices, and almost all public/civic occasions.
Brazilian music history (3 C, 3 P) I. Brazilian music industry (4 C, 5 P) O. Portuguese-language operas (4 P) Music organisations based in Brazil (6 C, 9 P) S.
Whether known as hallelujah, alleluia or alleluya, an ancient Hebrew word plays a big role in music, faith and culture. Hallelujah! The remarkable story behind this joyful word
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."