Capoeira music

Capoeira music
A capoeira bateria led by Mestre Cobra Mansa featuring three berimbaus and a pandeiro.
Other names	Música de Capoeira
Stylistic origins	African music Samba Candomblé Batuque
Cultural origins	Brazil
Typical instruments	berimbau pandeiro atabaque agogô reco-reco

Capoeira music is the traditional musical accompaniment used in Afro-Brazilian art capoeira, featuring instruments like berimbau, pandeiro, atabaque, agogô, and reco-reco. The music plays a crucial role in capoeira roda, setting the style the energy of a game.

Music in the context of capoeira is used to create a sacred space through both the physical act of forming a circle (roda) and an aural space that is believed to connect to the spirit world.^[1] This deeper religious significance exists more as a social memory to most capoeira groups, but is generally understood as evidenced in the use of ngoma drums (the atabaques of candomblé), and the berimbau whose earlier forms were used in African rituals to speak with the ancestors.