Music - Samba Em Preludio by Esperanza Spalding
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- Created on: 10-11-17 11:33
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- Samba Em Preludio - Esperanza Spalding
- Tonality
- B minor
- no modulations
- Harmony
- jazz harmonies
- extended / altered / substitution chords
- chromatic chords
- perfect cadences
- chord progressions often create descending chromatic movement in the bass
- 16 bar chord sequence
- delicate dissonance
- no chords in verse 3
- Stucture
- Introduction - bars 1-3
- Verse 1 - bars 4-19
- Break - bars 19-22
- Verse 2 - bars 23-54
- Guitar solo - bars 55-88
- Verse 3 - bars 89-104
- Coda - DS to end
- Key Information
- written in 1962
- range of a minor 10th
- transcription
- Portuguese lyrics
- origionally written by Roberto Baden Powell Aquino and Vinicius de Moraes
- Jazz Features
- syncopation
- improvisation
- instrumental breaks
- blue notes
- crotchet triplets
- one single key
- jazz harmony
- Latin American Features
- bossa nova groove
- guitar and voice
- virtuosic guitar
- Portuguese lyrics
- Rhythm, Metre and Tempo
- Starts with free tempo
- in 4/4 metre
- based on bossa nova rhythm
- very syncopated
- Instruments and Sonority
- female, Portuguese vocals
- nylon acoustic guitar
- second guitar overdubbed for guitar solo
- acoustic bass guitar
- Melody
- vocal melody opens by voicing broken chords/ arpeggios
- syllabic throught
- mostly stepwise movement
- melody notes are often the highest extension of an extended chord
- 2 main melodies, heard separately at first, then combined
- Techniques
- improvisation
- rubato
- trills and flourishes
- plucked
- guitar: double stopping and harmonic
- Texture
- mostly homophonic
- sparse in places
- some polyphonic parts
- introduction is monophonic
- Tonality
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