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Esperanza Spalding is an American jazz musician born in 1984 who plays double bass and sings. She studied at Berklee College of Music and has won several Grammy awards. The set work "Samba Em Preludio" is a bossa nova song written by Brazilian composers and originally intended as a love duet. Bossa nova is a fusion of samba and jazz that developed in the late 1950s and gained popularity in 1964, featuring a slowed down samba rhythm and often solo guitar accompaniment.

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Set Work 8

Esperanza Spalding is an American jazz musician born in 1984 who plays double bass and sings. She studied at Berklee College of Music and has won several Grammy awards. The set work "Samba Em Preludio" is a bossa nova song written by Brazilian composers and originally intended as a love duet. Bossa nova is a fusion of samba and jazz that developed in the late 1950s and gained popularity in 1964, featuring a slowed down samba rhythm and often solo guitar accompaniment.

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GCSE Music – Set Work 8 – Samba Em Preludio


A: Esperanza Spalding B: Samba Em Preludio
• Esperanza Spalding was born in Portland, Oregon, USA in 1984. • This set work is a cover of a song written by Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino and
• After leaving school she developed a love for the bass and concentrated on Vinicius de Moraes. It was originally intended as a love song performed as a duet
this instrument as well as her singing. between a man and a woman.
• She became the singer of an indie band called Noise for Pretend for whom • The ‘em’ is Portuguese for ‘in’.
she wrote songs. • This piece is not really Samba, but is in a style called Bossa Nova that is closely
• She attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied double related to Samba.
bass. After graduating at the age of 20, she was asked to stay on as an • Bossa Nova is a fusion of Brazilian Samba and American Jazz.
instructor. • The style developed in the late 1950s but in 1964, Bossa Nova gained a
• She then formed a jazz trio with whom she recorded her album Junjo in widespread popularity.
2006. This was mostly instrumental but showcased her abilities on the bass. • The style is essentially a slowed down version of Samba, with a slowed down
• She went on to release Esperanza in 2008 from which the set work is taken, version of the Samba rhythm.
Chamber Music Society in 2010 and Radio Music Society in 2012. • Bossa Nova was often performed by a soloist accompanying themselves on
• She sings and plays double bass, electric bass, guitar and acoustic bass guitar, nylon- string guitar, although the piano, organ, double-bass and drums were also
the instrument that she plays in the set work. frequently used.
• She sings in English, Spanish and Portuguese and has a particular love for the • The self accompanied examples also featured a return to a Brazilian folk song
music of Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken. style of vocal delivery, which was much more nasal and subdued that was the
• She won a Grammy Award in 2011 for Best New Artist, the first time a jazz case with Samba.
musician had done so. She has since gone on to win other Grammy awards in • In this set work, the guitar playing is clearly influenced by Flamenco (traditional
other categories. Spanish) guitar styles

C: DR SMITTTH

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