World Percussion 
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We may hear the following phrases in various regions in Brazil-"Let's play some forró!" "Let's go to a forró(or forrobodó)!"
FORRÓ
can mean a party, a group of people going to some one's house or a
ballroom to dance
different rhythms of the Northeast such as: coco, xaxado, baião, embolado, xote
among others. So when we say forró we are talking about a genre of music and
dance that
Developed in almost all states of the Northeast, the forró was played
by "BANDAS DE PIFANOS" for private parties or ballroom and for many different
celebrations. The band was composed of two pífanos ( small bamboo or tube(PVC)
flute), zabumba ( bass
drum
played with two sticks-The top one giving the open bass tone and other stick
giving the higher pitched sound ) and caixa ( snare
drum
). These instruments can be traced back to instruments used on the Iberian
peninsula and in Italy hundreds of years ago and that are still played to this
day. In Italy and the Iberian peninsula they would play these instruments at
many different events-religious festivals, etc. In Portugal and Spain there was
a heavy Arabic influence. This was brought to Brazil where it blended with
indigenous music giving us In the 40's one young virtuoso accordion player Luis Gonzaga, known as "O Rei do Baião/ The Baião's King", started to perform on a radio program. He played the accordion accompanied by the radio's orchestra using chorinho instrumentation-guitar, cavaquinho and other minor percussion instruments. The triangle was incorporated later on with a fast polyrhythmic pattern.
Playing
this northeastern rhythm in Rio de Janeiro he caught the attention of people all
over Brazil. After the song "BAIÃO" was released in 1946 it became a great
hit-if there was a radio everybody was dancing and singing with it. Because of
this Luis Gonzaga is credited with inventing modern baião. Artist like Trio
Nordestino, Jackson do Pandeiro among others are Today the baião and the whole forró family is coming back into fashion and is starting to be played on the radio again. Young artists are playing it incorporating other non-traditional instruments like drum set, bass, and guitar.
Some
artist that I recommend:
Emiliano Benevides
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