Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

“Tico, Tico No Fuba” (“Bird in the Cornmeal”) (Words and music Z. Abreu, A. Oliveira, E. Drake)

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INVERSIONS OF TRIADS

“Tico, Tico” is an example of a type of popular Brazilian song called a choro(literally “cry”). Despite their words of lament, choro

melodies were usually played at a fast tempo with snappy, syncopated rhythms: “If I’m on time—Cuckoo—but if I’m late—Woo-

woo; the one my heart has gone to may not want to wait!”

Cultural note: Choro

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