2. What´s the Carnival?
Carnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events
are usually during February. Carnival typically involves a public celebration or
parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party.
The Brazilian Carnival is one of the best-known celebrations today, but many cities
and regions worldwide celebrate with large, popular, and days-long events. The
Carnival of Rio de Janeiro is the biggest Carnival in the world, and the biggest
popular party on the planet, according to the Guinness Book of World Records
2010. The Rio de Janeiro Carnival is also considered the world's most
famous.Others importants carnivals are the Cadiz´s Carnival and the Canaria´s
Carnival that are spanish
4. The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is held each February It is
considered the second-most popular and internationally-known
carnival, after the one held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In 1980, it
was declared a Tourist Festival of International Interest. The
Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife aspires to become a World
Heritage Site by UNESCO. The festivities on the streets of Santa
Cruz de Tenerife start on the Friday before Carnival with an
opening parade, until Ash Wednesday. The festival has two parts:
the official Carnival, and the Carnival on the street.
5. Official Carnival:The official carnival has more than a hundred
groups, including murgas, comparsas, rondallas and other
musical groups. The street carnival is more loosely
organized, and comprises the people celebrating on the
streets. Thousands of people come each day to the streets to
participate, most of whom wear a disguise in accordance
with Carnival tradition.
- Murgas: Group of people who sing with letters that usually
becomes critical to the policy, but also the problems of
society in general carried out with humor and irony, the
compositions are based on folk songs, to which I changed
the lyrics, with murgueros whistles. The group is usually
small and is accompanied only by percussion.
6. - Comparsas: The dance troupes are groups that organize a
presentation of music, dance and color that brings to life the
colorful carnival parades They are composed of three distinct parts
"batucada" which is what provides the percussion and sound, "the
Town" which brings its characters and "ballet" that develops
choreographies.
7. - The Rondallas of Tenerife is a musical formations typical of the
island of Tenerife. They consist of a male or mixed chorus and a
group of pulse and spike. The code that is interpreted by these
formations ranging from fragments of opera, operettas, world
music, etc..
8. The street Carnival:The street carnival is more
loosely organized, and comprises the people celebrating on
the streets. Thousands of people come each day to the
streets to participate, most of whom wear a disguise in
accordance with Carnival tradition.
10. The Carnival of Cádiz is one of the best-known carnivals in Spain.
In the Carnival of Cadiz There are diferents way:
Musical groups
- The chirigotas are well-known witty and satiric groups that waiting
for the whole year to sing about politics, topics in the news, and
everyday circumstances, while all of the members wear identical
costumes. Each chirigota has a wide repertoire of songs. They sing
in the streets and squares, at improvised venues like outdoor
staircases or portals, and in established open-air tablaos organized
by the carnival clubs
11. - The choirs are larger groups that travel through the
streets on open flat-bed carts or wagons, singing, with a
small ensemble of guitars and lutes. Their characteristic
composition is the "Carnival Tango", and they alternate
between comical and serious repertory, with special
emphasis on lyrical homages to the city and its people.
The costumes are, by far, the most sophisticated and
elaborate of all.
12. - The comparsas are the serious counterparts to
the chirigotas in Cádiz. Poetic lyrics and criticisms
are their main ingredients. They usually tend to
have a more elaborate polyphony, and they are
easily recognized by the
typical countertenor voice.
13. - The quartets (cuartetos), that, oddly, can be
composed of five, four, or three members. They do
not bring a guitar, only a kazoo and two sticks, that
they use to mark the rhythm. They use set-piece
theater scenes (pre-written skits), improvisations,
and music, and they are purely comical.
14. Musical forms
The Presentation is the first piece sung to present
the characterisation of the group, called its tipo.
The style of the music is absolutely free and
unstructured. It can take the form of a well-known
form, an original composition, or even a spoken-
word recitation.
- The Couplet is sung by the chirigotas, comparsas,
choirs, and quartets. They are short satirical songs
with a refrain that is always related to the costume
and the characterisation of the group.
15. The Pasodoble is a longer song without a refrain,
and it is usually (but not always) serious, criticising
something that happened during the previous year
or rendering an homage to someone. They are
sung by the comparsas and the chirigotas.
- The Tango, with its
characteristic gaditano rhythm is sung only by the
choirs, accompanied by their orchestras, and they
are mostly poetical compositions.
- The Potpourri, sung by all of the groups,
changing the lyrics of well-known songs of the
year or any other kind of music, sometimes
depending on the group's tipo.
17. The Brazilian Carnival is an annual celebration
that takes place forty days before Easter. It has
some variations with its European counterpart and
also differences along the Brazilian territory. In
the late nineteenth century, cordões were
introduced in Rio de Janeiro and consisted of
groups of people walking through the streets
playing music and dancing. The cordões were the
ancestors of modern samba. There are two types
the carnivals of Brasil: Carnival in the
northeastern and Carnival Amazon
18. Carnival in the northeastern: Carnival in Brazil is
characterized by the color carnival blocos There are expressions of
Brazilian culture. These people desfilam sambam and organized in
semi-clad fantasies. Some of asthmatic blocos competitions he
participate Brazilian Carnival is also characterized by sound car
where the genre musics reproducem ax, samba and swinguera, and
where many people are dancing, singing, drinking, and kissing.
19. Carnival of Bahia: In the state of Bahia,
celebrates carnival, using so-called electric trios, which
are trucks fitted with large speakers and a platform
where musicians play different rhythms, mainly ax.
In cities like Bahia and Buzio, the celebrations are done
directly on the streets and dance to present the electric
trios.
20. Carnival Amazon: Amazon Carnival is an annual
festival held in July in the city of Parintis and starred for two
main blocks: Garantido and Capricious. It is based on local
folk elements and indigenous culture.
21. Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
The parades take place in the Sambodromo and major
Samba Schools are, In Rio de JaneiroMangueira,
Portela, Salgueiro, Beija-Flor, Imperatriz, Império
Serrano, Vibrant, União da Ilha, Estacio de Sa, do
Viradouro States.
22. Carnival in Sao Paulo:
The parades take place in the Sambodromo and major
Samba School. The parade starts with the simplest
escolas, which are not official and is intended to lift the
spirits of the spectators at the peak, when then enter the
avenue the official group escolas and more luxurious.
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24. Vocabulario:
- worldwide : En todo el mundo
held: Declaro lo siguiente
World Heritage: Patrimonio de la humanidad
Parade: Desfile
Comprises: Consta de
Accordance: De acuerdo
Folk songs: Las canciones populares
Troupes: Comparsas
Develops: Desarrolla
Disguise: Disfraz