Forms part of a group of field materials documenting alice lemos avila and friends performing portuguese songs and. Jun 3, 2012 fado is probably the oldest urban folk music in the world and represents the heart of the portuguese soul. Alternatively, please feel free to use our accounts on social media such as facebook or twitter to get in touch. There was a commentary in portuguese and english on the history of fado. See more ideas about portugal, portuguese culture and lisbon. Bathed by the mondego river, coimbra has approximately 150 000 inhabitants 2011, divided into 31 parishes. Born in lisbon, portugal, official documents have her date of birth as the 23rd july, but rodrigues always said her birthday was the 1st july 1920. We have a wide variety of pages giving information and enabling you to contact us before and after your purchase. It is one of the most important portuguese cities, due to infrastructure, businesses and organizations in. Tango folk music songs samba ellis island my ancestors the beautiful country my heritage in the heart tv series. Amalia rodrigues greatest hits full album best of fado.
Fado historian and scholar rui vieira nery states that the only reliable information on the history of fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best. I had the opportunity to film a performance of the coimbra fado group republica da saudade during my time in coimbra in september 2016. Coimbra tens mais encanto fernando machado soares youtube. The word fado comes from the latin fatum, which means fate, and although it was created during the first millennium a. The second style of fado developed roughly from the 1870s to the 1890s in the university city of coimbra.
Played with the same instruments as lisbon fado, and with similar phrasing and melodies, coimbra fado is sung only by men formerly only students at coimbra university and has a more classical music mood and intonation while remaining, like the lisbon version, very much an emotional form. Learn to play guitar by chord tabs using chord diagrams, transpose the key, watch video lessons and much more. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting alice lemos avila and friends performing portuguese songs and music from december 31, 1938 through april 12, 1939, collected by sidney robertson cowell in. Antonio cabral discusses the history and tradition of the fado genre of music. This fado is different than what you will hear in lisbon. Mix fado coimbra serenata monumental queima youtube. View a map of coimbra portugal and its attractions. Recorded by sidney robertson cowell in oakland, california on april 12, 1939. The 50 minutes of instrumental guitar playing and singing is something to remember. Fado is a predominantly vocal portuguese musical form first documented in the late 1830s, virtually always accompanied by plucked string instruments, predominantly associated with the urban lower classes, and which reached the recording industry during the last decade of the 19th century.
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