The Portuguese Connection (was Re: Upcoming New book on Mathematics and Music)

Olá Señhor Dan & all, Stearn's a Rodrigues, who'd've thunk ?!

> Yet a little more not useful personal trivia--there's Portuguese and
> Spanish on my mother's side, and I was born into the world Daniel
> Anthony Rodrigues.

Anyway just to make this thread a wee bit more interesting to
the rest of you, let me remind you'll about one of the best kept
secrets in music, the Fado. It's something I plan to personally
explore in depth at a future time. It's also something that
apparently has never been mentioned on the Tuning list, and the
more you listen, you may begin to wonder why.

Here's an offhand link to a page (with mp3s) about one of the
best Fado singers around, Cristina Branco.

"About Cristina Branco" (Nederlandse taal)
http://www.melomusic.nl/cb_ain.htm

This page is in Dutch, and for everyone other than Manuel (&
other Dutch speakers here), there are links on that page to
articles about her in English, Portuguese, & Dutch. This
particular page has links to mp3s at the bottom. In popular
(commercial) media it's too often conveniently labeled as
"Portuguese Blues", but while I love American Blues music, this
is another world.

I'll try & track down some more pages in English about the Fado.

Tchau,
Joel