"Choro, Tango, Samba and Ragtime: Easy tunes" is Choro Music new product released for music beginners. This songbook has 6 easy-to-perform songs of different styles (including a duet for soprano/tenor sax).
Musicians of the Ensemble: “Época de Ouro”
André Bellieny – 6-string guitar
Jorge Filho – cavaquinho
Jorginho do Pandeiro – pandeiro
Toni 7 Cordas – 7-string guitar
Arnaldinho do Cavaco – cavaquinho
Guta do Pandeiro – pandeiro Israel Bueno – 6-string guitar Marco Bertaglia – 7-string guitar
The series “Classics of the Brazilian Choro – You are the Soloist!” enables you to discover the Choro style through the incomparable experience of performing the compositions yourself, accompanied by a Choro Ensemble.
Each volume of the series features a famous composer of this amazing music style, including his/her main compositions in a digitally-mastered audio CD and a high-quality printed music book with the corresponding C, Bb and Eb scores, as well as interviews, biography, and relevance of the author to the history of Choro.
This volume of “Choros fáceis/Easy tunes” brings 6 compositions from the Choro, Tango, Samba, and Ragtime repertoire that are deemed easier to play. You will also find a duet for soprano sax and tenor sax to play along with another musician.
Using the CD, listen to the complete stereo tracks (with soloists) for your reference. Tune your instrument (flute, sax, clarinet or mandolin) using the tuning notes. Now have fun being the soloist, using the accompaniment tracks featuring a leading Choro Ensemble from Brazil.
Now you can play along with your own "Choro Ensemble," which will always be there for you, whether at home, on the road or at the beach.
Have fun and good training!
Contents and some full stereo track audio clips:
A Flor Amorosa Joaquim Callado
Gabriela Machado (flute)
Bambino (dueto) Ernesto Nazareth
Daniela Spielmann (tenor and soprano sax)
The Entertainer Scott Joplin
Harvey Wainapel (clarinet)
Lua Branca Chiquinha Gonzaga
Izaías do Bandolim (mandolin)
Specifications:
Size
9 x 12 inches
Number of pages
48
Weight
1.1 lbs.
Presentation
spiral bound
ISBN
978-0-9843085-0-7
*Contents: scores for flute, clarinet, alto/tenor/soprano sax and mandolin, plus 1 CD with 6 songs for you to be the soloist, and 6 full stereo tracks to listen to.
Credits:
Transcription, edition and revision of scores
Tatiana Mazurek
Transcription and revision of harmony
Marco Bertaglia, except for “Lua Branca” and “Gaúcho (Corta-Jaca),” by Roberta Marcinkowski, Luca Raele and Marco Bertaglia; and “Bambino,” by Roberta Marcinkowski and Luca Raele
Mastering
Estúdio Umuarama, by Ricardo Calafate
Recordings “A Flor Amorosa” and “Gaúcho (Corta-Jaca)”: Estúdio 185 (São Paulo, Brazil); “The Entertainer”: Estúdio Umuarama (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); “Último Desejo”: Tonelada Estúdio de Gravação (São Paulo, Brazil); “Bambino”: Cake Walk Estúdio (São Paulo, Brazil); and “Lua Branca”: Yb Estúdios SP (São Paulo, Brazil)