Capoeira music
Capoeira is more than martial art. Capoeira has an own style of music. Music determines the rhythm and style at which capoeira is practised. The music consists of singing accompanied by the sound of berimbaus (a wooden bow strung with a steel string), pandeiros (tambourines), a reco-reco (a rasp) and an agogo (a bell). Except for that, a large drum is often used: the atabaque .
There are three kinds of songs in capoeira.
- In the beginning, the mestre (‘master’ or leader) sings a ladainha . This is often a famous song written by a famous mestre.
- The ladainha is followed by a chula or louvação . With the chula the capoeiristas thank God, somebody's trainer or somebody else. The structure is that the mestre sings something (the call) and the rest of the capoeiristas repeats this (the response).
- The third kind of song is the corrido . Just like the chula, the corrido has a call and response structure. But with corrido the games begin and it is the corrido that accompanies the actual capoeira. Often, the ladainha and the chula are left away but capoeira is imposible without the corrido songs
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