POPULAR URBAN MUSIC IN BRASIL

            POPULAR URBAN MUSIC IN BRASIL 
                   
                              

Music in Brasil is really lively and the most important type of music is the samba and the bossa nova. Here you have a video of a brasilian song :

sphere music

   

Armonía de las esferas

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• The harmony of the spheres is an ancient theory of Pythagorean origin, based on the idea that the universe is governed according to harmonious numerical proportions and that the movement of the celestial bodies according to the geocentric representation of the universe - the Sun, the Moon and the planets - Is governed according to musical proportions; The distances between planets correspond, according to this theory, to the musical intervals.

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FLAMENCO

FLAMENCO

Origin: It is a style of music and dance typical from Andalusia, Murcia and Extremaura.
It exist untel the XVII century.
Instruments that perform it: It is performed by castanets and the guitar.
Body percussion to acompany it: Palms and Jabbing.
Famous performers: Paco de Lucia, Camaron de la Isla and Diego el Cigala are some of the most importants flamencos of the history.

                                                 

 LAURA BOULTON 

PROFESSION: She was an American ornithologist and ethnomusicologist.

Boulton mission:¨To capture, absorb, and bring back the world‘s music; not the music of the concert hall or the opera house, but the music of the people ...¨

About her life: Boulton also collected traditional musical instruments around the world.

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