Throughout its history, Portugal has presented a remarkable musical output: as to sacred music, in the scope of its “Golden Age” of the 16th and 17th centuries, around cathedrals and their polyphonic schools; as regards the typical vilancicos, of a religious or secular nature, and sometimes influenced by the African or South-American language and rhythm of the populations under the rule of Portugal at the time; concerning the opera, under an intense Italian influence, since the beginning of the 18th century.

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