Product Description
By Mike Strand, ASCAP
This is a bossa nova lead sheet with chord symbols and guitar fret boards, for a jazz or Latin ensemble, large or
small, and a solo instrument (flute, saxophone, guitar, etc.). So it supports a variety of
arrangements, contra facts, and improvisations.
The audio sample is a jazz bossa nova accompaniment, combined with my tune from Finale PrintMusic - a quartet ensemble. In this particular sample, you'll hear a flute carry the tune.
Levantado translates
to "lifted up", and connotes being cheered up or advanced in some way. This tune would serve well at a
graduation party.
Many bossa novas
are in minor keys and convey sadness or melancholy. Levantado is not
your typical "bossa" -- youll hear major chords and ascending melody
motifs, good for a happy occasion.
Libertango, by Astor Piazzolla, was my inspiration for this composition, and he is recognized in the subtitle. The basic structure of Levantado is similar to Piazzolla's piece, but the harmonic progressions and melody in Levantado differ from those in Libertango. The chord base notes in my piece often ascend in the progressions, where they descend in Piazzolla's piece. The melody motifs between the two pieces also differ -- gone are Libertango's repeated 7-note figures, and there are reversals or inversions in my piece relative to Piazzolla's other melodic material.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.