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A Day In The Life Of A Fool (manha De Carnaval)
A Day In The Life Of A Fool (manha De Carnaval)
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Piano solo
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Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa
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Timothy Stapay
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A Day In The Life Of A Fool
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SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1320993 Composed by Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Film/TV,Jazz,Multicultural,Si...
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1320993 Composed by Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Film/TV,Jazz,Multicultural,Singer/Songwriter,Standards,World. Score. 6 pages. Timothy Stapay #909438. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.1320993). A Day In The Life Of A Fool(manha De Carnaval) is arranged for advanced piano.Manhã de Carnaval (Carnival Morning), often referred to as Black Orpheus, is a song by Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and lyricist Antônio Maria. Manhã de Carnaval became one of the first Bossa Nova compositions to gain popularity outside Brazil. Particularly in the United States, the song is considered to be one of the most important Brazilian Jazz/Bossa songs that helped establish the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s. Manhã de Carnaval has become a jazz standard in the U.S., while it is still performed regularly by a wide variety of musicians around the world.
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A Day In The Life Of A Fool (manha De Carnaval)
A Day In The Life Of A Fool (manha De Carnaval)
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Jazz
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Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa
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Dan Jones www
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A Day In The Life Of A Fool
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Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Xylophone - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1148537 Composed by Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa. Arranged by Dan...
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Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Xylophone - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1148537 Composed by Carl Sigman and Luiz Bonfa. Arranged by Dan Jones www.danjonesguitarist.com. Classical,Film/TV,Jazz,Latin,Multicultural,World. Score and parts. 11 pages. DanJonesGuitarist #748703. Published by DanJonesGuitarist (A0.1148537). (Black Orpheus) Manhã de Carnaval Arranged for Xylophone and Guitar by Dan Jones www.danjonesguitarist.com Manhã de Carnaval appeared as a principal theme in the 1959 Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro. It became one of the first Bossa Nova compositions to gain popularity outside Brazil, and in the United States, the song is considered to be one of the most important Brazilian Jazz/Bossa songs that helped establish the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s. Manhã de Carnaval has become a jazz standard in the U.S. and is performed regularly by musicians around the world in its vocalized version or as an instrumental. The song is also known as A Day in the Life of a Fool, Carnival, Theme from Black Orpheus, or simply Black Orpheus. In France, the song is also known as La Chanson d'Orphée. This version for guitar and xylophone is intended for intermediate standard players. My heartfelt thanks go to Harry Bond for his invaluable advice in scoring for xylophone. For a huge range of music for guitar, guitar ensemble, writings, compositions and much more, please visit www.danjonesguitarist.com.
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Bossa for T.D.
Bossa for T.D.
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Jazz Ensemble
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George West
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George West and edited by CHRI
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Bossa for T.D.
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Dubba C Music
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Jazz Ensemble Jazz Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1217081 Composed by George West. Arranged by George West and edited by CHRIS MAGEE. Jazz...
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Jazz Ensemble Jazz Ensemble - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1217081 Composed by George West. Arranged by George West and edited by CHRIS MAGEE. Jazz. Score and Parts. 59 pages. Dubba C Music #813614. Published by Dubba C Music (A0.1217081). Originally composed for jazz great Bill Watrous, Bossa for T.D. is a contrafact based on the chord changes to Tommy Dorsey's famous theme song. Scored for a full big band (5-4-4-4) plus trombone soloist, this chart begins in Bossa Nova style and changes to swing at the out chorus. It is accessable by a good high school or college jazz band. Grade 4.Ranges:Trumpet: Eb6Trombone: G4 (lead); Bb4 (solo - optional 8va on final phrase up to A5)About George West:Trombonist and educator George West (1931-2013) was founder and head of the jazz program at James Madison University for 25 years, from 1971 until his retirement in 1996. He served as bass trombonist and arranger with the U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note from 1953 until 1958, and performed with the Kai Winding trombone Group from 1959 through 1960. George completed his undergraduate degree at Oberlin Conservatory, and earned his masters and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He founded the jazz programs at both schools while he was a student. George also founded the jazz program at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (Muskegon, MI) in 1971 and led that program through 2004. After his retirement from James Madison University, he relocated to Deland, Florida, and led the jazz program at Stetson University until his passing in 2013.
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Bossa Nova U.S.A. by Sharp Eleven Music - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, Recorder, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Trumpet or Violin Solo
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Performed by: Sharp Eleven Music: Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Alto Saxophone; 3 pages -- Jazz~~Brazilian Jazz~~Cool~~World Fusion~~Solo Instrumental~~Bossa Nova
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Bossa Nova U.S.A. by Dave Brubeck - Leadsheet
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Performed by: Dave Brubeck: Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Leadsheet;Instrument/Chord...
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Performed by: Dave Brubeck: Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Leadsheet;Instrument/Chords, instruments: C Instrument; 1 pages -- Jazz~~Brazilian Jazz~~Cool~~World Fusion~~Bossa Nova
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Bossa Nova U.S.A. by Dave Brubeck - Piano/Chords
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Piano, Guitar (duet)
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Bossa Nova U.S.A.
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Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Pi...
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Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Piano/Chords, instruments: Guitar;Piano; 5 pages -- Jazz~~Cool~~Bossa Nova
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A Day In The Life Of A Fool
A Day In The Life Of A Fool
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Saxophone Quartet: 4 saxophones
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Butch Baker, James Brown, Jame
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James Pybus
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A Day In The Life Of A Fool
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James Pybus
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Saxophone Quartet,Woodwind Ensemble Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.764751 Compo...
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Saxophone Quartet,Woodwind Ensemble Alto Saxophone,Baritone Saxophone,Soprano Saxophone,Tenor Saxophone - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.764751 Composed by Butch Baker, James Brown, James Jess R. Brown, Wade A Kirby, and Wade Kirby. Arranged by James Pybus. Contemporary. 16 pages. James Pybus #6688903. Published by James Pybus (A0.764751). Manhã de Carnaval (Carnival Morning) is a song by Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and lyricist Antônio Maria. It appeared as the main theme in the 1959 Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro by French director Marcel Camus. The song has become a jazz standard in the U.S. where it is also known as A Day in the Life of a Fool, Carnival, Theme from Black Orpheus, or simply Black Orpheus. Manhã de Carnaval became one of the first Bossa Nova compositions to gain popularity outside Brazil; it has been recorded by a wide variety of artists worldwide. This arrangement for SATB Saxophone Quartet features the alto in an optional improved solo. It can be used in a variety of concert and performance settings. Duration is 4:13. Contact me at james.pybus56@gmail.com.
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Bossa Nova U.S.A. by Dave Brubeck - Piano Solo
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Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: In...
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Dave Brubeck - Bossa Nova U.S.A. Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 1 pages -- Jazz
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Dave Brubeck: Bossa Nova U.S.A. - piano solo
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Virtualsheetmusic
Instantly printable sheet music by Dave Brubeck for piano solo of MEDIUM skill level. / jazz
Instantly printable sheet music by Dave Brubeck for piano solo of MEDIUM skill level. / jazz
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Bossa Nova U.S.A.
Bossa Nova U.S.A.
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Bossa Nova U.S.A.
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Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music
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SheetMusicPlus
By Dave Brubeck. By Dave Brubeck. For Piano. Jazz. 6 pages. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music ...
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By Dave Brubeck. By Dave Brubeck. For Piano. Jazz. 6 pages. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music
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The Girl from Ipanema for Solo Trumpet & Piano
The Girl from Ipanema for Solo Trumpet & Piano
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Trumpet, Piano
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Keith Terrett
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The Girl from Ipanema for Solo
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Music for all Occasions
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SheetMusicPlus
By Various. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 8 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions...
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By Various. Arranged by Keith Terrett. Score, Set of Parts. 8 pages. Published by Music for all Occasions
Arranged for Solo Bb Brass & Piano "Garota de Ipanema" ("The Girl from Ipanema") is a Brazilian bossa nova and jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English lyrics were written later by Norman Gimbel.
The first commercial recording was in 1962, by Pery Ribeiro. The Stan Getz recording featuring the vocal debut of Astrud Gilberto became an international hit. This version had been shortened from the version on the album Getz/Gilberto (recorded in March 1963, released in March 1964) which had also included the Portuguese lyrics sung by Astrud's then husband João Gilberto. In the US, the single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and went to number one for two weeks on the Easy Listening chart. Overseas it peaked at number 29 in the United Kingdom, and charted highly throughout the world.
Numerous recordings have been used in films, sometimes as an elevator music cliché. It is believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history, after "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The song was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2009, the song was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 27th greatest Brazilian song.
Ipanema is a fashionable seaside neighborhood located in the southern region of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Helô Pinheiro, the woman who inspired the song, in 2006.
The song was composed for a musical comedy titled Dirigível (Blimp), then a work-in-progress of Vinicius de Moraes. The original title was "Menina que Passa" ("The Girl Who Passes By"); the first verse was different. Jobim composed the melody on his piano in his new house in Rua Barão da Torre, in Ipanema. In turn, Moraes had written the lyrics in Petrópolis, near Rio de Janeiro, as he had done with "Chega de Saudade" ("No More Blues") six years earlier.
During a recording session in New York with João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Stan Getz, the idea of cutting an English-language version came up. Norman Gimbel wrote the English lyrics. João's wife, Astrud Gilberto, was the only one of the Brazilians who could speak English well and was chosen to sing. Her voice, without trained singer mannerisms, proved a perfect fit for the song. Ethel Ennis and Nat King Cole have also both recorded the song.
The song was inspired by Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now known as Helô Pinheiro), a seventeen-year-old girl living on Montenegro Street in Ipanema. Daily, she would stroll past the Veloso bar-café, not just to the beach ("each day when she walks to the sea"), but in the everyday course of her life. She would sometimes enter the bar to buy cigarettes for her mother and leave to the sound of wolf-whistles. In the winter of 1962, the composers saw the girl pass by the bar. Since the song became popular, she has become a celebrity.
In Revelação: a verdadeira Garôta de Ipanema ("Revealed: The Real Girl from Ipanema") Moraes wrote that she was "the paradigm of the young Carioca: a golden teenage girl, a mixture of flower and mermaid, full of light and grace, the sight of whom is also sad, in that she carries with her, on her route to the sea, the feeling of youth that fades, of the beauty that is not ours alone—it is a gift of life in its beautiful and melancholic constant ebb and flow."
Ella Fitzgerald recorded this song on her two-disc set of Brazilian music Ella Abraca Jobim, released on the label [[Pablo today}] in 1981.
The legacy of "The Girl from Ipanema" was acknowledged by multiple aspects of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro: the Olympic and Paralympic mascots were respectively named Vinicius and Tom after the song's co-writers by a public vote, while the Olympics' opening ceremony featured a segment themed around the song and the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. Jobim's grandson Daniel performed the song during the segment, which also featured an appearance by Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen. Spotify reported that the song had been streamed on its service 40,000 times per-day in the days following the ceremony (a 1200% increase), while in the U.S., the song reached #5 on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart the following week.
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Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian Reflections
Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian Reflections
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Guitar
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Laurindo Almeida
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Laurindo Almeida - Brazilian R
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By Laurindo Almeida. For Guitar (Classical and Fingerpicking). Brazilian. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music ...
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By Laurindo Almeida. For Guitar (Classical and Fingerpicking). Brazilian. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music
ISBN 9781610655606. A collection of rich harmonic and contrapuntal vocal/ guitar arrangements by the renowned guitarist and composer, Laurindo Almeida. Born in Sao Paulo Brazil in 1917 and immigrating to the U.S. in 1947, it was Almeida who brought the bossa nova style to the United States long before it was so named. With Brazilian Reflections, the always elegant and tasteful Almeida brings his skills as a supreme guitarist and arranger to bear in these stunning arrangements of traditional and modern songs from Brazil. Written in standard notation with Portuguese lyrics. The companion online audio available for download included with this book features Almeida accompanying his wife, soprano Deltra (Didi) Eamon Almeida, in spirited and soulful renditions which reflect their love of this music and their life-long personal/ professional collaboration.
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