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Samba
Brazilian musical genre
This article is about the Brazilian music genre. For the Rio dance, see Samba (Brazilian dance). For the ballroom dance, see Samba (ballroom dance). For other uses, see Samba (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Sambo or Zamba.
Samba (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈsɐ̃bɐ]ⓘ) is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba),samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba),[3] amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states. Samba is a broad term for many of the rhythms that compose the better known Brazilianmusic genres that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Bahia in the late 19th century and early 20th century, having continued its development on the communities of Rio dem Janeiro in the early 20th century. Having its roots in Brazilian folk traditions, especially those linked to the primitive rural samb
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Chega de Saudade () and the origins of Bossa Nova
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Tereza da praia (Tom Jobim and Billy Blanco)
Lúcio Alves & Dick Farney, (?). The recording belongs in a class of pre-Bossa Nova music called sambas-canções.
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(below) a later live performance by the pair
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What is Bossa Nova?
Citing Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileir, Wikipedia offers the following brief summary in the New beat in the s: the Bossa Nova section of its Samba page:
A movement was born in the southern area of Rio de Janeiro, strongly influenced bygd jazz, marking [?] the history of samba and Brazilian popular music in the s. The bossa nova emerged at the end of that decade, with an original rhythmic accent which divided the phrasing of the samba and added influences of impressionist music and jazz and a different style of singing which was both intimate and gentl
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Bossa nova
Style of Brazilian music
For other uses, see Bossa nova (disambiguation).
"Bossa" redirects here. For other uses, see Bossa (disambiguation).
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈbɔsɐˈnɔvɐ]ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba[nb 1] developed in the late s and early s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band. Another defining characteristic of the style is the use of unconventional chords in some cases with complex progressions and "ambiguous" harmonies. A common misconception is that these complex chords and harmonies were derived from jazz, but samba guitar players have been using similar arrangement structures since the early s, indicating a case of parallel evolution of styles rather than a simple transference from jazz to bossa nova. N