Samba Em Prelúdio Flashcards
Who is the composer
Esperanza Spalding:
American bassist player and singer
Jazz musician from Latin jazz, cuban jazz fusion
What lyrics
Portuguese
Intro dynamics
- Low volume as a romantic style
- ‘Free time’ - as rubato where it is hard to find a pulse
- harmonic fermenta with a pause
What does the intro do
Bass solo
Intro rhythm
Use of semiquavers
Metric shift to 5-4 in B3 = improvised to fit what is played
Intro context
Use of studio techniques such as ad libs, virtuose
Intro melody
- disjunct melody with wide leaps
- mordents for decoration and ornamentation
Intro instrumentation
Acoustic bass guitar which is a hollow wooden body similar acous guitar
Intro texture
Monophonic
Intro harmony
- key sig = Bm as bossa nova is minor with no modulations
- double stopped chords
- arpeggios
V1 dynamics
Starts with rubato
V1 rhythm
- shift back to 44
- use of syncopated bossa nova bass rhythm
V1 melody
- melodic line is rising arpeggio
- B8 leap of 7th
Vocal line
- low tessitura as a chest voice
- range over minor 10th from E below middle C to G above
V1 instrument
- alto voice
- acoustic bass guitar
V1 texture
MDH but some places where bass is also active creates polyphony
V1 harmony
- B4 use of broken chord of B6 = 6th end
- B4 bass raised 7th as it is the harmonic minor
- double stopped chord
- use of broken chords pattern which is highly complex and technical as if it is it’s own line
V2 differences
- rhythmic fragmentation whereby use of triplets and semiquavers
- active bass known as ragtime piano accompaniment
Chorus main line harmony
Use of a jazzy flattened 5th