Samba Em Prelúdio.

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When was the song composed?
1962.
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What is the song?
A bossa nova.
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What is the song and bossa nova influenced by?
Jazz music.
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Who composed Samba Em Prelúdio?
Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino.
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What is the English translation of the title?
Samba in the form of a prelude.
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What is a prelude?
A short piece written in an improvisation style.
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What language is the piece in?
Portugese.
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When was the Esperanza Spalding version published?
2008.
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What album is the song a part of?
Esperanza.
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What three instruments are used in the song?
A female vox., an acoustic bass guitar and an acoustic guitar.
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In what tessitura is the female vox.?
The lower one.
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What is the range of the female vox.?
A 10th.
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Give three features of the acoustic bass guitar part.
Broken chords, scale patterns and double stopping.
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What three ornaments are used in the acoustic bass guitar part? Give examples for two of them.
A mordent (bar 1), a harmonic (bar 3) and glissandos.
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When does an acoustic guitar join the accompaniment parts?
In bar 23.
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What does the acoustic guitar play on bar 23? (3.)
Chords and melodic fragments between the various vocal phrases.
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In the middle of the song, what does the acoustic guitar have?
A virtuosic solo.
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What doe D.S. al Coda mean?
From the sign to the coda.
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Where is there a D.S. al Coda sign in the score?
Bar 103.
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What is the bar range of the repeated section?
Bars 39-52.
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Where does the coda begin?
Bar 104.
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What is the guitar solo based on?
The chords in section B.
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After the guitar solo, what happens to the two main ideas of the song? (2.)
They are heard in counterpoint in bars 88-103.
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Give the exact structure of the song. (6.)
Intro, verse 1, verse 2, guitar solo, D.S. al coda/repeated section and the coda.
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What is happens in the intro?
The acoustic bass guitar has a solo.
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Give the tempo of the intro.
Free tempo.
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In verse 1, what is repeated (give bar numbers?)
The main idea is varied in bars 12-18.
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When does the introduction to bossa nova begin?
Bar 19.
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In what PART of the song does the acoustic bass guitar join in?
Verse 2.
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What is repeated in variation in bars 39-54?
Verse 2's main idea.
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For the D.S. al coda section, what does the bass part play?
An augmented version of the first vocal melody.
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What does the female vox. sing in the D.S. al Coda section?
A simplified version of the second main idea.
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What plays in the second part of the D.S. al coda section? (3.)
An exact repeat of the variated version of the second main idea, exposed in verse 2.
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What is the coda based on? (2.)
The melody between bars 50 and 53 sung twice over though.
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What is the MAIN texture in the intro?
Monophonic.
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What is the texture of MOST of the song?
Homophonic.
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Between bars 88 and 103, what is the texture?
Contrapuntal.
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What is the key of the music?
B minor.
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What replaces the modulations in the song?
The many chromatic notes.
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Why is the harmony so complex?
As it is based on the jazz influence from bossa nova.
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Give the four chord extensions used in the song.
7ths, 9ths, 11ths and 13ths.
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Give an example of a chromatic chord used in the song and where is this?
Diminished 7th chords, for instance: bars 33 and 35.
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Give two regular chromatic chords used? Give an example.
C and F minor, for instance: in bars 27 and 28.
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What is the ending chord of the song and why is this unusual?
A B minor 13th, which is unusual as jazz songs usually end on an 11th chord.
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What does this do and why?
Leaves a sense that the piece will continue, due to the dischord.
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What is the vocal melody based on in verse 1?
A four note rising figure.
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What is done to the vocal melody in verse 1, between bars 4 and 17?
It is variated.
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What is the range of MOST phrases?
A 7th.
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What is the range of the first phrase?
A 6th.
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What three things create a sad (typical of jazz) mood in the song?
Faling sequences, the lower tessitura used in the female vox. part and the minor key.
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In the frist verse, what is the movement of the melody?
Leaps of 3rds or 7ths.
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What is the movement of the second verse?
ALMOST entirely conjunct.
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How is the main idea in verse 2 variated later on in the verse?
By being transposed up a 4th.
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What is the word setting like in the song?
Syllabic.
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What do the instrumental melodies have?
Improvisatory character.
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In the introduction, what does the acoustic bass guitar part consist of? (2.)
Broken chords and scaled-bass figures.
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When does the accompaniment pattern in bar 2 return?
Bar 7's accompaniment.
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What does the acoustic guitar solo show?
The versatility of the instrument in its upper register.
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What does the guitarist use to add tension?
Fingered tremolo.
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What is the metre of the song?
4/4.
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What is the rhythm of the opening?
Free.
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What achieves the improvisatory feeling of the opening?
The rubato/tiny fluctuations in tempo for expressive effect.
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Why does the introduction have a free tempo?
As there is not strict sense of pulse.
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Why does the rhythm look complex?
As most of it is improvised, through the triplets and syncopation.
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What type of rhythm is used in the song?
Cross rhythms.
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What are crossed rhythms?
They are two rhythmic patterns, which conflict with each other and then occur simultaneously.
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Give two rhythmic features of bossa nova.
Gentle syncopation and dotted rhythms.
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