music-samba quizlet

• what genre is samba em preludio

  Bossa Nova
• when was samba em preludio written

  1962
• what language are the lyrics in


  portuguese
• instruments used


  Female voice, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar
• what is the acoustic bass guitar

  larger version of the acoustic guitar with 4 strings
• describe the vocal line

  low in the female range
• what is the range of the vocals

  minor tenth
• what is the word setting

  syllabic
• what does the vocal line contain

  many leaps and complex rhythms of triplets semiquavers and rests
• what technique does esparanza use

  rubato
• what is rubato


  slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo
• describe the bass part

  in the beginning there is a florid bass guitar solo
• what does the bass guitar solo at the start contain

  double stops, wide leaps, rapid semiquaver passages, a mordent and a harmonic
• when does acoustic guitar join the accompaniement


  bar 23
• when does acoustic guitar play solo

  between verse 2 and bar 89
• what does the accompanying bass guitar play

  plucked chords and small melodic passages
• describe verse 1 (bars 4-19)

  8 bar idea

  repeated twice with changed ending the 2nd time
• describe intro (1-3)


  florid bass guitar solo
• describe the link (19-22)

  bass solo picks up tempo to move into bossa nova rhythm
• describe verse 2 (23-54)

  16 bar idea repeated twice and changed the 2nd time
• describe guitar solo (55-88)


  played over chords from verse 2
• describe voice and bass duet (89-104)

  bass plays vocal part from 4-11

  voice sings bar 23-38
• describe coda section


  second half of verse 2 with repetitions of last line

  guitar and bass play florid riffs during the last held vocal note
• what is the key

  B minor- typical of bossa novas
• does the music modulate

  no there is just complex harmony
• texture of the introduction

  monophonic
• what is the texture of most of the piece

  homophonic
• texture at bars 89-104


  polyphonic- two of the melodies of the piece are combined
• what do the harmonies show

  the influence of jazz and American pop songs
• describe the harmony


  - frequent chord extensions

  - diminished seventh chord-35

  - flattened 5th chord- 44

  - chromatic chords- bar 31 and bar 27/28
• describe the melody of verse A-4-19


  - 8 bar idea

  series of phrases linked by common arpeggio

  - long downward sequence

  - music descends to a low E in bar 11

  - disjunct- leaps of 3rds and a 7th in bar 8-9

  - melody changes in bar 18- jazzy flattened 5th used

  - bar 12-17 is repeat of 4-9 but has rhythmic changes
• describe verse B- 23-54


  - note values have doubled- there was an increase in tempo at bar 19

  - 16 bar idea (23-28) repeated but with a different ending in bars 39-54

  - entirely conjunct

  - bars 31-34 are in sequence with 23-26 but a 4th higher

  - bar 34-35 repeat the flattened 5th idea from verse 1 twice
• describe the tempo


  in bars 1-3 the tempo is free

  verse 1- slow tempo, lots of rhythmic rubato

  bar 19- tempo doubles

  free tempo-bar 114
• describe the metre


  4/4
• describe the rhythm of verse 1

  complex but never syncopated enough to lose the beat

  - frequent triplets and rests

  - bass part has syncopated rhythms
• descrube rhythm of verse 2

  longer note values in vocal line

  notes tend to be syncopated a quaver before the beat

  few triplets

  bar 23- bass part plays standard bossa nova rhythm (dotted crotchet and quaver pairs)

  bar
• what is the structure

  1. introduction

  2. verse 1

  3. link

  4. verse 2

  5. guitar solo

  6. voice and bass duet

  7. coda section