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Portugal has had a history of receiving different musical influences from around the Mediterranean Sea, across Europe and former colonies. In the two centuries before the Christian era, Ancient Rome brought with it Greek influences; early Christians, who had their differing versions of church music arrived during the height of the Roman Empire; the Visigoths, a Romanized Germanic people, who ...
Cante Alentejano is a Portuguese music genre based on vocal music without instrumentation from the Alentejo region. It was inscribed in 2014 in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, [1] one of two Portuguese music traditions, the other being Fado. [2]
The music features strong drum rhythms and call-and-response guitar or viola playing. [2] The chula, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, takes the form of a challenge, in which only men are allowed to contest. A four-foot wooden stick, commonly called spear, is placed on the floor.
It is a local adaptation of the English guitar, introduced to Portugal in the second half of the 1700s through the British trading post in Oporto. [3]: 583 Machete de braga: the machete de braga is a small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, with four metal strings.
Pages in category "Portuguese styles of music" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cante Alentejano;
King Dinis I of Portugal, from the Semblanzas de reyes.. In Portugal, an aristocratic poetical-musical genre was cultivated, at least since the independence (1139), whose texts are kept in three main collections (Cancioneiros): Cancioneiro da Ajuda (13th century), Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional (16th, on originals from the 14th), Cancioneiro da Vaticana (16th, on originals from the 14th).
Alphabet Inc's YouTube has shut down Portuguese ultranationalist group Grupo 1143's video channel for violating its policy against hate speech after receiving queries about its activities from the ...
Dazkarieh was a traditional Portuguese music band that began in 1999. The alternative rock and neofolk band consists of musicians Joana Negrão, Rui Rodrigues, João Campos and Vasco Ribeiro Casais. [2] They have released a total of seven albums.