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Banda de Pífanos Cantoria de Viola. Banda de Pífanos. Other Names Banda Cabaçal Terno de Zabumba Esquenta Mulher. Origins. Bombos (fife & drum groups from Portugal ) Charamelas and Zabumbas West African flute ensembles Brazilian Amerindian flute traditions. Legends.
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Banda de Pífanos • Other Names • Banda Cabaçal • Terno de Zabumba • Esquenta Mulher
Origins • Bombos (fife & drum groups from Portugal ) • Charamelas and Zabumbas • West African flute ensembles • Brazilian Amerindian flute traditions
Legends • Pífano: a blessed instrument for the novena procession • From the breath of the “savage” Indians to the caboclo
Instruments • 2 Pífanos (flutes) • Tarol (snare drum) • Triangle • Surdo (tenor drum) • Pratos (Cymbals) • Zabumba (bass drum) (left to right)
Pífano Tuning • major/minor ambiguity • neutral 3rds and 7ths
Performance Contexts • Novena de Casa • Forró parties • Tourist presentations
Novena de Casa • Chegada • Vênia do Santo • Procissão • Rosary (Terço)
Musical Repertoire • Música do Santo (hinos, benditos, dobrados, marches, waltzes) • Forró (baião, xote, forró, côco) • Festa (forró)
Cantoria de Viola • Sung-poetry • Viola accompaniment • Desafio song duels
Desafio YouTube
Poetic Rules of Cantoria • Sextilhas: six line verses • Deixa: obligatory rhyme • Mote: two-line topics
Viola Tuning • Open Tuning • Seven strings