The "Bachianas Brasileiras" is a series of nine suites written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They merge the various Brazilian idioms and folk tunes, with elements from the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, a composer who greatly inspired Villa-Lobos. This Choral is named "Canto do Sertão" (roughly meaning Folk Song) is a profound and sorrowful piece, that shares intimate passages with grand and orchestral moments.