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Morna

Morna, regarded as the national music of the islands, is strongly linked with Portuguese fado. Evolving from similar roots, namely the Angolan lundun and Brazilian-Portuguese modinha, the morna repertoire flowered at the turn of the nineteenth century with the poems of Eugénio Tavares (1867–1930), the most revered of morna composers.

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