This sunday 8 june, at 11am, on the Le Cheva Ailé (This art studio is placed on Media of Essaouira, on the Khaima' s restaurant square).
For this second meeting, we'll keep learning samba, and add a new rythm: Ijexá( or afoxé).
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| Learning SAMBA - Essaouira, 1st june 2014 |
Afro-brazilian Music Workshop with Ana Maria Fonseca
The rhythmic vitality of Brazilian music is combination of indigenous, African, and European expressions of music. During the session, the context of Brazilian rhythms is briefly presented through theory and images. A warm-up is conduced, letting the body “talk” with songs played as examples of the rhythm to be studied. Through the “body music” method, participants learn to understand the polyrythmic structure of Afro-brazilian music as the body “plays” as an instrument.
This was the SAMBA we did last sunday...
La vitalité rythmique de la musique brésilienne est une combinaison d' expressions indigènes , africains européens. Au cours d'une séance, le contexte de rythmes brésiliens est brièvement présente. Un échauffement est conduit, laissant le corps "parler" avec des rythmes. Grâce à la méthode " corps musicale", les participants apprennent à comprendre la structure poli-rythmique de la musique afro - brésilienne a partir de son corps que " joue " comme un instrument.
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| Jorge improvises a "surdo", on a gnawa's drum! 1st june 2014 |
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| Marta Simeon, artiste from Le Cheva Aile': playing Ganza ( this one is a plastic bottle with rice!) 1st june |
ABOUT THE RHYTHMS
SAMBA
Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia, Brazil, and
with its roots Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious
traditions, particulary Angola
and the Congo
It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil
The modern samba that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century is
predominately in a 2/4 tempo varied with the conscious use of a sung chorus to
a batucada rhythm, with various stanzas of declaratory verses. Traditionally,
the samba is played by strings (cavaquinho and various types of guitar) and
various percussion instruments such as tamborim.
Influenced by American orchestras in vogue since the Second World
War and the cultural
impact of US music post-war, samba began to use trombones, flutes, and clarinets,
as in Bossa Nova style.
Instruments
commonly used in samba:
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Classical
guitar, Seven-string guitar , 4-string
banjo, Agogô, Bass guitar, Cavaquinho,
Chocalho,
Cuíca,
Drum kit,
Ganza,
Hand-repique,
Pandeiro,
Repinique,
Saxophones,
Tarol,
Surdo,
Tamborim,
Tantã,
Trombone,
Trumpet…
Ijexá or afoxé
The word “afoxé”
means divination, prophecy or telling of the future. This folkloric
demonstration is characterized, above all, by the central figure of Babalawô or
Baba-oni-awô; the Father Fortune-Teller. Originating in the terreiros of
Candomblé, in particular those of “Efan”, a sect dedicated to the cult of Oxum,
Afoxé still symbolizes the worship of the noble entities of the African
culture. The chants to Oxum and Oxalá, the “Ijexá”, whose rhythms are beaten
out with a cabaça (dried fruit used as a percussion instrument), agogô bells
and atabaque (type of drum), are sung out in the terreiro by the ´parents´ of
the saint, the leaders of the faith in religious rituals.
The Agogo is a kind of trademark of Ijexa rhythm. The Portuguese brought to
The Africans
user the culture and religion to resist the oppression of slavery and became a
major part of Brazil
The
IJEXA rhythm was incorporate in Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) by many artists
such as: Clara Nunes, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Caetano Veloso and many others. The
group Filhos de Gandhi (Son’s of Gandhi) from Bahia is the main IJEXA
group in Brazil
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Instruments: afoxe (or agbe),
Atabaques and agogo
For more informations about these workshops, please contact:
Ana Maria - anamariajoana@hotmail.com
(212) 655630387
