With the musical traditions of Europe, Africa and the Indians as its source material, Brazilian music has evolved as an endless mix of styles, rhythms and sounds. There is regional music, characteristic of each state, and there are also genres on a larger scale, uniting the country and already loved by music lovers outside its borders.

Music for Brazilians is inextricably linked to the movement of the body, movement generated by a variety of rhythms. Samba, pagoda, bossa nova, forro, fevro and sertaneja are both musical styles and dances. This music is an expression of the people who created it, who are formed and exist within it and because of it.

To begin, let’s turn to the characterization of the style called “Samba”. If the rhythm of samba is slow and melodic, it is samba canção (samba song), if it becomes more impatient and rhythmic, it is samba enredo, which gets all of Rio de Janeiro going during Carnival. Samba lyrics are a reflection of life in its most diverse manifestations, desires, feelings, memories; music once improvised in the poorest neighborhoods, played and danced in cities and towns, lives in the soul of Brazilians.

Bossa nova is a relatively young style that emerged in the late fifties, combining the melodies of samba and the harmonics of jazz. But deep, expressing personal feelings, poetically rich, bossa nova today surrenders its position to the new musical trends of the country.

Thus, born in the northwest of the country, forro and fevro are remotely reminiscent of Caribbean rhythms, accordions and concussions in accompaniment, this is music for both daily discos and big celebrations.

Carnival music represents a separate and unique element of Brazil’s cultural identity. The most colorful, crazy and memorable carnivals take place in the cities of the northeastern region (Recife), and in the state of Bahia (Salvador and Porto Seguro), where you can see all the stars dancing together in the crowds. We will focus on this unique aspect in the next chapter of our term paper.

It should be noted that Brazil is currently following new musical trends: we find them in the tunes of Carnival in Bahia and in the Northeast. Among the most popular among young people today are the performers and bands Terrasamba, Banda Eva, Yvete Sangalo, Netinho, Cheiro de Amor.

There is a huge number of amateur clubs in the country, whose members study and promote folk music. Professional musicians also constantly turn to it. Thus, a truly national character distinguishes the music of the largest Brazilian composer E. Villa-Lobos. In his symphonies and plays, folkloric motifs are constantly heard. Folk themes are also used in the works of two other famous Brazilian composers – Francisco Mignone and Lorenzo Fernandes.

Thus, the best works of Brazilian musicians, artists, and writers are characterized by deep nationality, appeal to the roots of a rich traditional culture, in the formation of which Indians and Negroes, former Portuguese colonists and immigrants from Europe and Asia equally participated.