"Brazilian Soul" is the subtitle Villa-Lobos gave to this short and perhaps most popular installment in his Chôros series for various instruments, inspired by Brazilian street music. It's a quiet, highly expressive piano piece in which a slow, yearning melody expands over a syncopated, stretched-out ostinato figure in the bass. Melody and accompaniment become more intertwined in the second section without introducing new material. In the middle, the bass figure breaks out into a sparkling folk dance. This gives way to a more gruff, stomping dance based on the earlier material, and in the end the introspective opening passage returns in its original form.

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