Choro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʃoɾu], "cry" or "lament"), also popularly called chorinho ("little cry" or "little lament"), is an instrumental Brazilian popular music genre which originated in 19th …

Choro (pronounced “shoh-roh;” “cho” as in “sho” of “show,” “ro” as in “ro” of “rose” when pronounced with a Scottish accent), popularly called chorinho, is an instrumental genre of the …

The musical genre of “choro”, also known as “chorinho,” began to take shape in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro, where the music of the Portuguese court – ballroom dances such as the polca, …

Choro (pronounced SHOH-roh) is best described in American terms as "the New Orleans jazz of Brazil." It is a complex popular musical form based on improvisation, and like New Orleans …

In its infancy as a style, choro was primarily a way of performing European dance music, such as waltzes, polkas, schottisches, and mazurkas, rather than a genre unto itself.

Chôros is the title of a series of compositions by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, composed between 1920 and 1929.

Choro is Brazil’s earliest form of urban pop music. Choro is also very social. Musical friends gathered for informal sessions at local pubs or in the parlor of someone’s home. By 1910, …

This is a short introductory class on the origins and development of Choro, from the early Lundus and Polkas, to the Golden Age of Pixinguinha and Jacob do Bandolim. All the most important …

Chôro is a style of Brazilian popular music that originated in the late 19th century and is still per-formed today. Chôro pre-dates samba and bossa nova as a national music style, and …

Choro (pronounced “shoh-roh;” “cho” as in “sho” of “show,” “ro” as in “ro” of “rose” when pronounced with a Scottish accent), popularly called chorinho, is an instrumental genre of the …