Samba em Preludio

Who wrote Samba em Preludio?

• Esperanza Spalding

• Roberto Baden Powell Aquino

• A scout leader called Robert Baden Powell

• No-one, it's a traditional Samba piece

What does bossa nova mean?

• New trend

• Being extra bossy

• New jazz

• New dance

This is a fusion piece. What are the fusions?

• Cuban Son and American Jazz

• African Highlife and American Jazz

• Pop and American Jazz

• Brazilian Samba and American Jazz

What are the performing forces?

• Voice, guitars

• Voice, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass

• Voice, electric guitar, electric bass

• Voice, acoustic bass

What ornaments are played by the acoustic bass?

• Mordents, harmonics, slides, HO, PO

• Mordents, harmonics, trills

• Turns, harmonics, slides

• There are no ornaments

How many main melodies are there?

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

What is the opening texture?

• Monophony

• Homophony

• Polyphony

• Heterophony

What is the language of the lyrics?

• Spanish

• Brazilian

• Portuguese

• English

The falling melodies, low tessitura, sad lyrics and minor key create what sort of atmosphere?

• Happy

• Optimistic

• Wistful

• Sad

The acoustic guitar solo can be described as ...

• Straightforward

• Very similar to the melodies

• Improvised

• Mostly strummed