spalding samba em preludio
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- Created on: 01-06-18 13:06
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- Esperanza Spalding- samba em preludio
- performing forces and their handling
- female voice, acoustic guitar and acoustic bass guitar
- the vocal line is low in the female range and uses the chest register
- words are set syllabically
- contains many leaps and complex rhythms- triplets and semiquavers
- rubato- used slight variation from the score
- bass solo with double stops and mordents
- acoustic guitar solo, also sometimes imitates vocals
- Structure
- intro, verse, link, verse, guitar solo, voice and bass duet, coda
- Tonality
- B minor key
- Bossa novas often use minor keys
- music does not modulate
- Texture
- intro- monophonic
- homophonic
- polyphonic passage 89-104
- Harmony
- essentially tonal
- jazz and American influences
- chord extendions
- diminished 7ths
- chromatic chords
- descending chromatic movements in the bass line
- Melody
- two main melodies, heard separately at first
- Verse 1 (A)
- 8- Bar idea
- a series of phrases
- melodic line moves unusually by leaps of a 3rd or 7th
- Verse 2 (B)
- 16- Bar idea
- entirely conjunct melody
- Tempo, metre and rhythm
- rubato to start and then quadruple time
- verse 1 never syncopated
- triplets
- bossa nova rhythms
- dotted crotchet and quaver pairs
- performing forces and their handling
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