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loas de maracatu

English translation: maracatu chants

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Portuguese term or phrase:loas de maracatu
English translation:maracatu chants
Entered by: Beatriz Baker Méio

13:45 May 17, 2015
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
Portuguese term or phrase: loas de maracatu
É a descrição de uma oficina de percussão.

Os educandos/as aprenderam algumas técnicas básicas e as loas do maracatu

"songs" me parece errado. Chants? Hymns?
Beatriz Baker Méio
United States
Local time: 06:47
Maracatu chants
Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maracatu

http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_cita...

The last approached aspect in this workshop will be the chants. Traditional **Maracatu chants** are based on their slavery time when arriving in Brazil, their suffering and overcoming throughout History. Mostly, they are call-and-response chants led by the masterdrummer. **The chants are called “loas”,** and they are related to a particular pattern.
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Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 06:47
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Maracatu chants
Gilmar Fernandes
4 +1Loas do maracatu (popular songs in praise of saints or religious entities)
Danik 2014
4tune / ditty
Jonathan Freyburg


Discussion entries: 1





  

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tune / ditty


Explanation:
Sugestão.

Referência: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ditty

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Note added at 18 minutos (2015-05-17 14:03:33 GMT)
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"Tune" normalmente é usado para músicas que são consideradas simples e fáceis de lembrar.

Referência para tune: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tune

Jonathan Freyburg
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
Notes to answerer
Asker: Obrigada pela sugestão!

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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Maracatu chants


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maracatu

http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_cita...

The last approached aspect in this workshop will be the chants. Traditional **Maracatu chants** are based on their slavery time when arriving in Brazil, their suffering and overcoming throughout History. Mostly, they are call-and-response chants led by the masterdrummer. **The chants are called “loas”,** and they are related to a particular pattern.

Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 06:47
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
Notes to answerer
Asker: Obrigada, acho que chants funciona bem!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mario Freitas:
23 mins
  -> Thanks Mário :)
agree  Lázaro Borges
4 hrs
  -> Thanks Lázaro :)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Loas do maracatu (popular songs in praise of saints or religious entities)


Explanation:
É um gênero espicífico, provavelmente uma apropriação popular dos cantos religiosos medievais em louvor aos santos da igreja católica.

1-http://www.nacaocultural.com.br/loas-do-maracatu-almirante-d...
2-http://www.dicio.com.br/loa/
3-http://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/loa ver o significado 3

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Note added at 1 hr (2015-05-17 15:01:13 GMT)
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Sorry, gente, específico!

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Note added at 1 hr (2015-05-17 15:09:15 GMT)
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Um pouco mais sobre loas e música nordestina brasileira:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0103-40141997000100012&...
"O que, aliás, não é de admirar, por encontrarmos, no romanceiro nordestino, ... tê-la, com o imprevisto de seus andamentos, os altos e baixos da pauta musical, .... A dança começou nos engenhos, de origem africana (Artur Ramos, Mário de ... das canções populares, das louvações, das loas, da música popular religiosa."

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"As canções do Maracatu, conhecidas como “loas” sempre retratam fatos sobre os negros, a escravidão, libertação e reverência aos deuses afro. Os tiradores, pessoas que cantam no desfile, tem suas vestimentas femininas, parecidas com a das antigas mucamas, com guias e amuletos, eles puxam o enredo e os brincantes o acompanham em coro."
https://fatosculturais.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/da-africa-ao...

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Note added at 11 hrs (2015-05-18 01:41:07 GMT)
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Também acho que "Maracatú chants" funciona, mas talvez valesse a pena acrescentar (songs of praise) entre parênteses como sugeriu a Verginia para destacar a intenção de louvor dos cantos.

Danik 2014
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Obrigada pelos links, Danik, no meu caso acho que chants funciona melhor, mas é sempre interessante aprender coisas novas!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof: chanting of the songs of praise (loas), orchestrated by the master of Maracatu.
7 hrs
  -> Obrigada, Verginia, também pelo comentário.
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