Music and the dance of Bosanova - is that a phenomenon?

Many modern admirers of music and dances have heard about such a concept as "bossanova". This musical direction comes from sunny Brazil, where carnivals are held annually. However, this musical style, unlike traditional samba, received its development relatively recently. And not everyone knows on what exact basis this style was created in due time.

Bosanova - what kind of style of music?

In general, as well as all other Latin American directions of music, Bosanova, exactly as a style of music, suggests a combination of jazz harmonics with national rhythms.

Not surprisingly, in the music itself one can often find dimensions, seemingly even (say, 4/4 or 2/4), but with an explicit share of the so-called swing (the shift of the shares), when all sorts of syncopations are present in the rhythmic part, As many think, in the most inappropriate places for this. Often in each bar you can find triplets, which automatically leads the dimension of the composition to 12/8. Sometimes you can hear even completely non-standard sizes like 7/8 or 9/8.

If you look wider, Bosanova is the sister of such styles as salsa, samba, rumba and bayah. And, as is already clear, this music is inextricably linked with the dance schools (however, like all other Brazilian branches). Brazilians themselves do not imagine the sound of music without certain movements in the dance.

Music and dance are one indivisible

If you look at the musical essence of the style, it is not difficult to foresee that Bosanova is both a style of music and a dance.

The movements, like in all other dance schools, are refined and graceful, the choreography emphasizes the softness and flexibility of the body. What is most interesting, you can dance Bosanova as a couple, and yourself, without a partner or partner. Although there is a basic set of movements, the main attention is paid to the movement of the legs, arms and hip joints, variations in the dance can be thought up as many as you want.

In this sense, Bosanova closely intertwined with other Latin American dance directions, but it became the most popular in Brazil and Cuba.

History of occurrence

Some mistakenly believe that Bosanova is a style that has emerged exclusively under the influence of African immigrants to South and Central America. By no means!

The very style of music of Bosanova arose only in the fifties of the last century, at the junction of jazz and national traditions. Then it was called bossa nova, which could be treated as a "new style" or "new chip." However, at first such music sounded only at home concerts held in Rio de Janeiro, when the musicians tried to combine the traditional Brazilian samba with American jazz. Actually, jazz and gave Bosanova those same non-standard musical dimensions.

Brazilian Bosanova

Now a little bit about the homeland of this direction. The greatest development since the inception of the style of Bosanova was in the 60's, when many performers took for priority the canons of a new direction.

However, do not forget that even world ballroom dancing festivals today include tango, salsa, cha-cha-cha, and Bosanova in the compulsory program. Brazilian dance technique is not available to everyone. As the residents of this country say, you need to be born a Brazilian, so that from childhood to have a propensity to carry out all movements.

Even the annual carnivals, despite the fact that they mostly represented the samba schools, can not do without the Bosnova. It seems to fit organically into the mainstream, and sometimes even prevails. And in general, in these dances and music, it's very difficult to draw any clear line, because the national color often involves the use of completely different elements from the same different dance schools and musical directions.

The most famous performers

In the fifties, nobody left new style indifferent. It was Bosanova. Performers tried (as at that time it seemed) to combine the incompatible. Nevertheless, the starting point is considered to be the release of the play "Pretty sad" (Chega de Saudade), and then the song "The Girl from Ipanema". The godfathers of the new direction were João Gilbert and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

In 1958, developing the success of the new style, Jobim together with Elizet Cardozo recorded the album "Song of too strong love", where a lot of hits were presented. Apart from the "Girls from Ipanema", you can separately note the song "Insouciance" ("Insensatez"), with which in 1962 Jobim and V. di Morais conquered the famous "Carnegie Hall" in the US. By the 1970s, Bosanova had firmly taken the place of a visiting card of Brazilian music.

Modernity

Unfortunately, today, Bosanova as a style of music is used only in dance schools, and contemporary performers can be found only in Latin American cafes. The professional scene, like the popularity, remains only in the memories. It's a pity. After all, Bosanova is a very light music that conveys the subtle nuances of the soul and human experiences, sometimes overwhelming emotions, joy and sorrow, love and jealousy. And if all this happens in tandem with the dance, the degree of tension in general goes off scale.

But that's interesting. Even manufacturers of musical instruments like Yamaha or Casio, which produce keyboard synthesizers with auto accompaniment, necessarily include a set of styles of Bosanova in its various interpretations.

And all this only says that Bosanova has become a kind of classics in music, without study and understanding of which in modern art can not do.