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Modinha

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31:, in both cases with a more or less elaborated accompaniment of a harmonic instrument, generally harpsichord. But the term was also used many times by foreign travelers referring to songs of farmers of Lisbon's neighboring regions and of blind beggars of the capital's street. In these cases most mentioned characters are the simplicity of guitar's harmonic accompaniment, the melancholic and nostalgic character of poem and of melody, and improvising nature of interpretation. 204: 46:, because they were the first representative music of the people of Brazil, at the time of getting their identity as Brazilians, not the dwellers of Portuguese colony. Roughly speaking, the modinha, as well as the lundu, had parallel diffusion in both Portugal and Brazil. The origin of the modinha was in Europe, the lundu Africa. 26:
Under this designation were referred, in fact, in this time (from the last third part of the 18th to the beginning of 19th century), musical realities of very diversified characteristics, with grade of very variable poetic and musical complexities and cultivated in also very different social
23:, today, generally referring to traditional regional songs. In Portugal, "modinha" was, from the last third part of the 18th to the beginning of the 19th century, a general term designating sentimental songs in Portuguese. 27:
circuits. They designated 'modinhas' (aristocrats') salon songs of academic composers, many times with texts of Portuguese Arcadia poets, sometimes with one vocal line, others two voices in
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is the affectionate (grammatically called 'diminutive') form of the Portuguese noun "moda", meaning "fashion". The word "moda" is also used in
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The modinha is of uncertain origin, but it may have evolved in either Brazil or Portugal. Around the end of 18th century,
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that's been invented now", which sends her grandmother into a rage, eulogizing the past.
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wrote a series of modinhas that were extremely popular, especially in
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in 1779. One of his characters in a farce from 1786—
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The earliest known literary reference to "Brazilian
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Portugal
counterpoint
Brazil
love song
lundu
Domingos Caldas Barbosa
salons
salon music
flute
guitar
cavaquinho
Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida
Music of Brazil
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