Samba Em Preludio- Esperanzo Spalding
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- Created on: 11-02-18 12:16
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- Samba Em Preludio- Esperanzo Spalding
- Instrumentation
- Vocals use low register of female 'chest' range of minor 10th
- ABG uses solo harmonic
- Syllabic word setting
- Rapid notes
- Acoustic bass guitar is tuned to E,A,D and G
- Many leaps
- Plucked chords and small melodic passages
- Accompaniment role
- 2nd Acoustic Guitar
- Double stops
- Florid riffs during held vocal note
- Metre and Rhythm
- Rubato- free tempo
- Complex Rhythms
- Use of rests
- Syncopated Rhythms used in the bass part
- Bossa Nova Rhythm
- Tempo almost doubles
- Rapid Semiquavers
- Syncopated passage
- Tempo changes bar 19
- Longer note values
- Difficult to hear pulse
- Pitch
- Rising arpeggio
- Movement of 3rds
- Rising and falling idea
- Sequence
- 1st notes descend by a semitone
- E below female range
- Bar 34-35 repeat the flattened 5th idea
- 2 Main melodies
- Flattened 5th preparing for the descent
- All phrases span a 7th apart 1st
- 8 bar idea
- Harmony- Shows influence of jazz + american popular songs and are quite complex
- Texture/Structure
- Mainly homophonic
- Polyphonic - 2 melodies combined
- D.S sign - music comes back to bar 39
- Intro - verse 1 - Guitar solo - Verse 2 - Coda
- Texture/Harmony
- Diminished Chords
- Chromatic Chords
- Bm11
- Flattened 5th chord
- Harmony = tonal
- Chords based around 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th
- No cadences in the classical sense
- Frequent chord extensions
- Context
- Genre = Bossa Nova
- 4 Grammy Awards
- Bossa Nova = New Trend
- Mixes elements of Brazilian Samba with Jazz
- Written in 1962
- Influenced by Jazz, blues, funk and Latin American Music
- Instrumentation
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