Coladeira

 

Coladeira -As a music genre the coladeira is characterized by having a variable tempo, from allegro to andante, a 2-beat bar¹, and in its most traditional form by having an harmonic structure based in a cycle of fifths, while the lyrics structure is organized in strophes that alternate with a refrain. The coladeira is almost always monotonic², i.e. composed in just one tonality. Compositions that use more than a tonality are rare and generally they are cases of passing from a minor to major tonality or vice-versa.