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Bossa Nova
Means New Trend in Brazilian and is a style of Brazilian music combined with Jazz. It often emphasizes melody over percussion, evoking themes of longing, love, and regret.
Rubato
A musical term meaning to play with a free tempo, allowing the performer to speed up or slow down for expressive effect.
Counterpoint
The technique of playing two or more different melodies simultaneously.
G9 Chord
A chord consisting of a G triad with an added ninth note, commonly used in jazz music.
Fake Book
A collection of jazz pieces containing only lead sheets, requiring musicians to improvise based on their own knowledge.
Enharmonic Equivalent
Two pitches that sound the same but are written differently, requiring a choice between them in music notation.
Lead Sheet
A simplified music sheet containing the main melody and basic chord symbols for improvisation.
Substitution
The practice of using one chord in place of another within a chord progression.
Extended Chord
A chord with additional notes beyond the basic triad, such as ninths, commonly found in jazz music.
Stepwise Movement
Melodic movement by one scale step, often creating a smooth and connected sound.
Substitution
the technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords, or a chord progression.
Origin
This piece is a cover and was originally intended as a male and female vocal duet.
Dynamics
Samba is often loud and associated with carnivals but the dynamics in this piece are much quieter.
Key Signature
The piece is in B minor and this piece is all about the harmony!
Melody features
The melody is syllabic.
Ascending broken chords in the vocals can be heard at the beginning.
There is a mostly step-wise movement in the melody from Verse 2
The melody often consists of the highest notes of extended chords (for example the 13th which is a G in a Bm13th chord) and dissonant notes.
The guitar solo uses tremolo picking and fast arpeggios
Even though this is a modern piece you can still see ornamentation – There is a Mordent in bar 1.
The vocals often use sequences – see bars 4-5.
Jazz Features
-Both the guitar and bass have a solo which is common in jazz.
The chords often feature extended chords which can provide dissonance – jazz harmony.
Monophonic Section
Although the open strings ring (this is called a harmonic) between the 1st and 3rd bar the opening
consists of only a bass guitar and is therefore monophonic.
Texture
Overall the texture is polyphonic/contrapuntal.
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