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	Fado & Fado Restaurants in Lisbon, Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Lisbon it is always sung by a solo performer, while in Coimbra it is often performed by groups of male university students.
		They are accompanied by two guitarists, one playing the melody on a twelve-stringed Portuguese guitar (descendant of the English guitar introduced into Portugal by the British community in Porto in the 19th century), and the other supplying the rhythm on the six-stringed viola.
		As a national icon, she is buried in Lisbon's National Pantheon.
	www.golisbon.com /night-life/fado (607 words)

	Fado - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Fado (translated as destiny or fate) is a music genre which most likely originated in the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins.
		Some enthusiasts claim that Fado's origins are a mixture of African slave rhythms with the traditional music of Portuguese sailors and Arabic influence.
		Main stream fado performances during the 20th century included only a singer, a Portuguese guitar player and a classical guitar player but more recent settings range from singer and string quartet to full orchestra.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Fado (521 words)

	Fado Music
		Fado is the urban folk music of Portugal that appears to have its roots in the merging of the cultures of the Portuguese underclass (the Fadistas - the "fatalists") with the Portuguese-African ex-slaves who settled in the Mouraria and Alfama districts of Lisbon.
		Fado conveys a yearning, a longing for that which could have been or cannot exist and most of its lyrics concern love affairs, jealousy and passion and the lives of the Fadistas.
		Coimbra Fado is not the music of daily struggle or yearning for better times, but rather the music of sensitive young aristocrats romanticising about philosphy.
	www.enterportugal.com /fado.html (575 words)

	general list
		The fado of Coimbra is known as the traditional university students music.
		The Fado de Coimbra is a type of fadooriginated in the university city of Coimbra, Portugal It was adopted as the music of the university students, by the student community of the city, but besides that, it is considered the characteristic music of Coimbra.
		The Coimbra's fado is performed using the traditional "Guitarra de Coimbra" (Coimbra's Guitar), and sometimes have male voices singing.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /pfreelance/generi/Fado.htm (311 words)

	Fado
		It is termed the “popular fado” because of this, it tends to be lighter in spirit, and often ad-libbed.
		Fado was the earthy music of taverns and brothels and street corners in Alfama and Mouraria, the old poor sections of Lisbon.
		She was the diva of fado, worshipped at home and celebrated abroad as the most famous representative of Portuguese culture.
	www.provincetownportuguesefestival.com /fado.htm (699 words)

	Central Tourist Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Coimbra, unlike Lisbon, has not an harbour and it may have been its geographical condition that, coexisting with a strong cultural tradition of monastic and university origin, has decisively contributted for the specific formulation of the Fado from Coimbra.
		Coimbra was, in the 50s and until the 25th April 1974, afertile soil for the germination of Liberty.
		Today, the Fado of Coimbra, showing a tendency that has started to be drawn after the 80s in the 20th century, has a mainly romantic appearance, also descriptive of the students' lifes in the town.
	www.turismo-centro.pt /english/region/counties/coimbra/print/fado.htm (683 words)

	Coimbra, Portugal
		Known as the "city of students", Coimbra´s history is closely linked to its university, which was founded in 1290 and is one of the oldest in Europe.
		Coimbra´s unique appearance, dominated by the building and tower of the University at the top of the hill, may be admired as a harmonious whole from the other side of the river, but the city can only really be appreciated by walking through its streets.
		It deserves a lengthy stay, for as is said in a fado sung by the students, it has even "greater charm at the moment of farewell".
	www.quintadoriodao.com /eng/out/coimbra.html (208 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Mariza, Fado Curvo (Times Square Records) - Charisma and Energy with a Portuguese Fire
		Their dances, called the “fofa” and the “fundum,” a lewd song and dance exchange, heavily influenced the development of the fado, as did the rich Portuguese history of poetry and literature, with the folk culture of quatrains (rhyming couplets) and the modhina (ballad tradition) recognized as the cathartic music’s lyrical origins.
		While the first fado recordings date back to 1910, the music truly flowered during the 1920s and ‘30s, when a series of landmark records documenting the fado de Coimbra style, a tightly rehearsed, highly stylized, and far less cathartic form, was released.
		Rodrigues, born in Lisbon’s Alfama district, reinvented fado by fusing the urban and rural styles of Lisbon and Coimbra.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/91/article_id/791.cfm (873 words)

	Lisbon Features \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		Fado's importance is such that when the great fadista Amália Rodrigues died in 1999, the government declared three days of national mourning and awarded her a state funeral.
		At first, fado was essentially a music of the streets, a bohemian art form born and practiced in the alleys and taverns of Lisbon's Mouraria and Alfama quarters.
		Fado became increasingly confined to fado houses, where the singers needed professional licenses and had their repertoires checked by the official censor.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=lisbon@89&cur_section=fea&feature=30009 (571 words)

	Coimbra: April in Portugal - Avril au Portugal -Abril em Portugal / cdRoots
		Coimbra compiles twenty four of the most significant interpretations of the song, chosen from a list of approximately two hundred, recorded between 1947 and 2002.
		Coimbra, the city, is indelibly linked to its University, one of the oldest in Europe.
		Coimbra / Avril au Portugal / April in Portugal / Abril em Portugal is a global phenomenon of popularity.
	www.cdroots.com /tradisom-coimbra.html (1600 words)

	Ana Moura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fado is only one of the many forms of Portuguese folk and popular music, but it is certainly the genre most commonly associated with Portugal.
		While the fado of Lisbon and Porto is dominated by female singers, the fado of Coimbra tends to be sung mostly by men and often includes a chorus and more guitar accompanists than the conventional Portuguese guitar, Spanish guitar and bass guitar preferred in Lisbon.
		The fado of Coimbra originated amongst students from Lisbon and Porto who brought their guitars to this old university town and, draped in fl capes (the uniform of the university), serenaded their loved ones.
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	Traditional Fado Song of Portugal - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		The Coimbra fado is a folk music form popular among students at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, one of the oldest universities in Europe.
		Reaching its peak of popularity during the early part of the 1910s and 1920s, fado was rooted in melancholic traditional Portuguese folksongs, religious hymns, and Brazilian melodies brought to the country by Brazilian students who studied at the university.
		Though fado eventually declined in popularity, it has since enjoyed nostalgic revivals in the 1950s and 1970s.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461564876/Traditional_Fado_Song_of_Portugal.html (136 words)

	Chasing the Fado
		The Fado speaks with a quiet dignity born of the realisation that any mortal desire or plan is at risk of destruction by powers beyond individual control.
		It was her Fado that the Comte De Vimioso heard and with her this noble aristocrat entered into what historians of the time referred to as a "tempestuous love affair".
		Coimbra Fado is nevertheless full of longing, and it is that spirit which lies at the very heart of the Fado, be it from Lisbon or Coimbra.
	www.bolingo.org /audio/texts/fr105fado.html (3361 words)

	Fado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the Fado is sung in different ways in several regions like Lisbon and Coimbra (in the Fado of Lisbon you find more Arabic than Celtic influences, while this is exactly vice versa in the Fado from Coimbra), the Fado is the almost tangible expression of the soul of the Portuguese people.
		Maria de Fátima as the true "Fadista" (Fadista is the Portuguese name for a Fado singer) that she is, says that Fado is really a song of life.
		The exact origin of Fado is not clear, but one of theories reads that Negro slaves from Brasil came to Portugal in the beginning of the 19th Century and introduced the Fado music there.
	www.mariadefatima.com /e_fado.htm (603 words)

	InfoHub - Portuguese songs and Language
		Fado is considered the typical musical form of Lisbon and can be heard in the typical areas of Alfama and Bairro Alto in places known as "casas de Fado"(houses of Fado).
		Coimbra being historically and now a university town, the fado there is more academic and associated with students, although some artistes or groups have broken out onto a broader stage.
		Fado is the Portuguese version of the blues, a plaintive, crying song with an exotic, Middle Eastern feel to it which gives it a special appeal, but makes it difficult for the unitiated to understand.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=758&page=6&pp=10 (1293 words)

	Visit Portugal
		The Fado of Coimbra bears a close instrumental resemblance to the Fado that is sung in Lisbon.
		The Fado of Coimbra was developed by university students who arrived in the city from Lisbon and Porto, bringing with them their guitars and a different way of singing.
		They found Fado the ideal vehicle for preserving the memories of student life, singing about unrequited love and nights spent without sleep, or serenading their sweethearts from under the window.
	www.visitportugal.com /NR/exeres/7867FEA5-3E5D-4793-95BE-89689160653C,frameless.htm?order=5&parentGuid={6B2A69CE-F7D1-4066-AFE7-EAC29ED7D19D} (291 words)

	Fado - the music of Portugal
		Fado can be performed by men or women, although many aficionados prefer the raw emotion of the female fadista.
		The Lisbon fado reached its golden era in the first half of the 20th century, when the Portuguese dictatorship of Salazar (1926-1968) forced the fado performers to become professional and confined them to sing in the fado houses and the so called "revistas", a popular genre of "vaudeville".
		This form of fado reached its most famous period in the 1950s and 1960s when names like Edmundo Bettencourt, Luis Gois, Jose Afonso and the musicians Artur Paredes, Carlos Paredes and Antonio Portugal among others, combined new forms and lyrics to a song which was limited to student circles.
	www.btinternet.com /~radical/thefolkmag/fado.htm (706 words)

	Portuguese Foundation Inc. of Connecticut - President's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This unique form of fado is known as the student fado or the fado of Coimbra.
		The fado is sung by male students and accompanied by a Portuguese guitar called the guitar of Coimbra, a twelve stringed instrument with a deeper sound than its Lisbon counterpart.
		In 1990, seven hundred years after the founding of the University of Coimbra, and across the Atlantic Ocean, the Portuguese Foundation was founded, based on the principles of promoting the Portuguese Culture in the State of Connecticut and assisting students of Portuguese ancestry in their quest to achieve a higher education.
	www.pfict.org /pres.html (642 words)

	Fado und Feste - der Klang des Schicksals
		Jahrhundert in der alten Universitätsstadt Coimbra gesungene Balladen, die oft vom Studentenleben und der Liebe handeln.
		In den früheren Kolonien Portugals hat sich der Fado ebenfalls verbreitet und sich zur kapverdischen Morna einer Cesária Évora und zum brasilianischen Choro weiterentwickelt.
		Fado muss aber nicht nur traurig sein, sondern hat auch eine fröhliche Seite.
	www.urlaubstipps-harz.de /portugal_fado_und_feste.html (769 words)

	World Music Central - Fado music
		Fado was the earthy music of taverns and brothels and street corners in Alfama and Mouraria, the old poor sections of Lisbon.
		The fado is normally sung by men or women and accompanied by one Portuguese guitar and one classic guitar, which in Portugal is called viola.
		She was the diva of fado, worshipped at home and celebrated abroad as the most famous representative of Portuguese culture.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /staticpages/index.php/fado (871 words)

	Nineislands ::..:: Fado
		It is emotionally, because the theme of fado usually involves a story about love.
		There are other versions of fado, like "popular fado," which blends fado and folk traditions.
		Coimbra fado normally talks about the cities past and traditions, whereas the Lisbon fado is more romantic and full of emotion.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /wldchkn13/fado.htm (120 words)

	A city of Joy and Pain : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fado of Coimbra is associated with students and their life style, their romance and their nostalgia for the Mondego.
		The fado is part of the lifestyle here and can be heard in any corner of the University hill, right from the rooms of the Academic Association to the bars and pubs spread all around.
		Coimbra as a result is getting congested and the tertiary sector becoming increasingly important as a lot of income accrues from renting rooms and apartments to students.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/May/25/5983_1370484,00430013.htm (873 words)

	Verdes Anos - Elementos
		Desde sempre revelou uma especial ligação ao universo específico, que Coimbra e seus cantores constitui.
		Foi aluno das escolas da Secção de Fado da Associação Académica de Coimbra.
		Integrou o Grupo de Fados da TAUC de 1991 a 1994.
	www.verdesanos.com /elem.htm (508 words)

	Fernando Machado Soares : The Fado of Coimbra (Ocora) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fado has often been compared to the blues.
		In any case the songs on this live collection are less heartbroken than some other fados and instead are more in the nature of gorgeous ballads, full of dignified yearning.
		This album would make two different audiences happy: first, those who are interested in fado and its kin (like the music of Cesaria Evora) and second, those who are fond of the art song tradition and would like to hear an exotic variation on it.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,165504,00.html (314 words)

	IATUL 2006_Cultural Issues_Music
		The Lisbon style is the popular, while the Coimbra's is the refined style; both are seen as ethnic music for sophisticated audience.
		Her type of fado is today called " Lisbon 's fado".
		Madredeus and Cristina Branco added with new instruments and themes - all that they kept from the original Fado is its looks and the concept of "saudade".
	paginas.fe.up.pt /~iatu2006/music.htm (267 words)

	Coimbra
		COIMBRA was Portugal's capital from 1143 to 1255 and it ranks behind only the cities of Lisbon and Oporto in historic importance.
		This is when you're most likely to hear the Coimbra fado, distinguished from the Lisbon version by its mournful pace and complex lyrics.
		In the early sixteenth century Coimbra was the site of a major sculptural school; the new tombs for Portugal's first kings, Afonso Henriques and Sancho I, and the elaborately carved pulpit, are among its very finest works.
	www.portugal.com /travel/cities/coimbra.asp (615 words)

	Portugal Today - portugal travel and tourist information, travel bargains, hotels, resorts, car hire - business lounge
		Coimbra is crossed by the Mondego river, a so frequently theme in Portuguese literature that it is also known as The River of Poets.
		Being the city of students thought the ages, Coimbra is associated with Portugal´s most important religious, artistic, intellectual and political figures more than any other city in Portugal.
		Fado de Coimbra is a special kind of Fado, usually sing by students, allways a male voice with romantic lyrics acompained by the traditional 12-string Coimbra guitar.
	www.europe-today.com /portugal/city02.htm (196 words)

	Car hire in Coimbra. Portugal Auto Rental
		It has kept its secular academic traditions, as seen in the fl-caped students, in the soulful tones of the “fado de Coimbra” (traditional song sung to the sound of guitars by the students).
		Coimbra's rich heritage of Roman relics and its academic air contain great experiences in wines and food, as well as great accommodation.
		Coimbra University is one of the oldest in Europe, founded in Lisbon in 1290, and then transferred to here in 1537.
	www.online-carhire-portugal.co.uk /car_hire_portugal/coimbra_car_hire.htm (617 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fado De Coimbra 1926-1930: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fado de Se Velha - Jose Paradela d'Oliveira
		Fado da Santa Cruz - Edmundo de Bettancourt
		Fado de Santa Cruz - Jose Paradela d'Oliveira
	www.amazon.ca /Fado-Coimbra-1926-1930-Various-Artists/dp/B0000039XK (139 words)

	Ad Libitum/Questão Coimbrã - Um grupo de fado de Coimbra \| Ad Libitum/Questão Coimbrã - a ...
		A group of the Coimbra style of fado, that played between 1991 and 1995...
		(Coimbra Issue), a reference to the 19th century revolution on the Portuguese literary scene.
		In 1994, we recorded some songs in a garage in Coimbra but the original DAT tape was erased and a copy on Metal tape got lost...
	home.utad.pt /~leonelm/adlibitum (556 words)

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