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Originally developed during the early nineteenth century in the historic working-class neighbourhoods of the central Alfama, Mouraria and Bairro Alto districts, the principal Portuguese musical tradition of fado is one of the most distinctive single musical genres of the wider southern European folk tradition. The wider fado tradition consists of a continuous melancholic vocal style accompanied by the standard two-instrument Portuguese guitar and classical guitar ensemble, with the wider reperto...