Fado das Sedes

Fádu (the Portuguese. Fado) - one of the most characteristic elements of the Portuguese and, above all, the Lisbon culture. We can say fate, arranged the music. Fado is written in a free manner in the form of four-line stanzas, which are based on some kind of story, or just a feeling. There fado lyrical and love, have dramatic and even thieves. But in any case, they express the state of mind.
Fado is always performed to a small but dvenadtsatistrunnuyu & quot; Portuguesa guitar & quot ;. In contrast to the Spanish, which acts as a bass guitar is a Portuguese melody. But, interestingly, she got a guitar to Portugal recently. And, like most that neither is a & quot; Portuguese drink & quot; Port wine was born with the help of English merchants and the guitar was brought by traders and sailors from Albion.
English cittern - predecessor & quot; Portuguesa guitar & quot; - First appeared in the XVIII century in the city of Porto, where he soon became a fashionable instrument in secular salons. And after a little time to master the guitar as a country that has become quite the national musical instrument.
As a phenomenon purely Portuguese, fado, however, emerged from various elements. In the romances, and it is easy to trace the influence of African and Brazilian music. But especially - musical and vocal traditions of the Cape Verde Islands. By the way, the music of Cape Verde is still very popular in Portugal.
But all these influences was to connect in Lisbon. & Quot; created a sculpture Athens, Rome has invented the right, Paris has invented revolution, Germany has opened mysticism. And that Lisbon has created? Fado & quot ;, - noted the outstanding Portuguese writer Esa de Keyrosh. And all because, he explains that the & quot; Lisbon has retained the original languor of light and freshness: despite the asphalt, factories, gas lights on, on the cobbled quays, here spring still listen to the terms of wind verses; and in the palaces still kissing doves; and still be heard in the silence seemed as air flows through the cracks of stone buildings, like the lifeblood of the city melancholy. And God, the poet has not fallen out of favor crowd & quot ;.
Link to melancholy - is not accidental. Whatever Fado was, there is always a kind of melancholy and sadness, which seem to be - in the national character of the Portuguese. And it's not just my opinion ..