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Fantasia
Litterally meaning "fantasy", it the also the word for "costume", something everyone wears in a samba parade or desfile.
Forró
A form of dance music that is extremely popular in, among other places, the amazon basin (e.g. Manaus) and includes three instruments: zabumba (large bass-drum type instrument), triangle and (here I must confess ignorance of the name) a squeeze-box, accordion-type instrument that plays the gorgeous melodies. The triangle pattern typically mimics a samba shaker or tamborim pattern using open notes on the downbeat, and the second and fourth sixteenth notes plus a closed note on the third sixteenth. The zabumba provides the pulse, typically a three note pattern per bar - one, the and of two and four (if it is in 4/4). It is generally fast and makes people crazy. Legend has it that it came from a bastardization of the English words "for all".
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