{"id":1330,"date":"2010-06-21T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2010-06-21T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:56:28","slug":"brasilien-matogrosso-viola-caipira-viola-sertaneja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Brazil – Matogrosso – viola caipira – viola sertaneja – Helena Meirelles – Milton Ara\u00fajo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just discovered some videos from Brazil with a viola caipira<\/strong> or viola sertaneja<\/strong>, an instrument with five double metal courses and slightly smaller than a guitar<\/em>. You can find more information about those instruments in the Atlas of Plucked Instruments. The viola caipira is built like a normal guitar, the viola sertanejya is constructed like a resonator guitar (dobro \/ national). Another instrument with a resonator used in Brazil ist the Delvecchio, the Brazilian kind of a resonator guitar.<\/p>\n

About the tunings of the viola you can read in the Atlas of Plucked Instruments:<\/p>\n

There exist dozens of tunings for the viola<\/em>, but often the tuning is open, for easy playing, like : aA d’D f’f# aa d’d’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have selected two videos played by Helena Meirelles<\/strong>, a woman who only became popular at an old age. The best information about the life and music of Helena Meirelles can be found in a blog about her: http:\/\/thebraziliansound.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/late-blooming-helena-meirelles.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Roberto Corr\u00eaa, a viola master and researcher, said this about Helena: “She represented that border region of Paraguay, northern Argentina and Mato Grosso do Sul that culturally is a region by itself, replete with styles like the polkas, the chamam\u00e9s, the guar\u00e2nias, <\/em>and the rasqueados.<\/em> She brought the sounds of the frontier, of the wilderness, of an unknown place. Her way of playing was simple, but her music was not.”**<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**from Jornal do Brasil<\/em>, as quoted in Dicion\u00e1rio Houaiss Illustrado: M\u00fasica Popular Brasileira<\/em> (Rio de Janeiro: Paracatu Editora, 2006).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Helena Meirelles – Siriema \/ \u00c1gua parada (Clodovil 1992)<\/h2>\n

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Helena Meirelles – Guaxo<\/h2>\n

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Then there are some videos with Milton Ara\u00fajo<\/strong> who does also play the viola sertaneja. I found his video when I looked for a song named Araponga – I found his version of this song – it was not the song that I was looking for – but an interesting discovery. Before I add the Video with Araponga and his version of the Guaxo that he has obviously lerned from Helena Meirelles, her is a nice blues about Helena Meirelles:<\/p>\n

Milton Ara\u00fajo – Circuito Cultural<\/h2>\n

Milton Ara\u00fajo executa seu arranjo de um Blues num especial sobre Helena Meirelles, exibido pelo programa “Circuito Cultural” (NET – ABC)<\/p>\n

Presentes: M\u00e1rio Ara\u00fajo e Marc\u00e3o (base);
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Milton Ara\u00fajo – Guaxo\/Araponga<\/h2>\n

Milton Ara\u00fajo no programa “Na Palma da M\u00e3o”, mediado por Gabino, executando do seu jeitinho especial “Guaxo” e “Araponga”.
\nE Marc\u00e3o na booa base, como sempre!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Links<\/h2>\n

Atlas of Plucked Instruments: http:\/\/www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com\/south_america.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Information about Helena Meirelles: http:\/\/thebraziliansound.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/late-blooming-helena-meirelles.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Milton Ara\u00fajo on myspace: http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/miltonaraujo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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