Projeto do Colgio:

Bossa Nova and the Rise of Carioca Music In The 1960s.

Sentido da expresso
Influencias
Relaes entre msica e poesia
Relaes entre temas objetivo e subjetivo
Msicas que possuem verses em Ingls
Diferenas entre as letras das musicas em ingls e portugus
Popularidade da musica carioca no contexto Americano
Bossa nova means new trend in Portugese, and refers to a style of music popularized
in Brazil in the late 1950s. Using elements of samba and jazz, bossa nova has had an
indelible influence on jazz since the 1960s.
A key feature of bossa nova is its cool, relaxed style, perhaps owing to the fact that it
was developed in the beachside areas of Rio de Janeiro. Although its rhythmic base is
taken from the intense and highly percussive samba
Many bossa nova songs have worked their way into the jazz repertoire,
especially Jobims The Girl From Ipanema, Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet
Stars), and How Insensitive. Often, musicians will apply the bossa style to
songs that were not originally bossa nova
Jobims Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) was the first bossa nova
recording, made in 1958. It was an instant hit, and kicked off the careers of both
Gilberto and Jobim, as well as the popularity of bossa nova.

http://jazz.about.com/od/introductiontojazz/a/BossaNova.htmrom

De Moraes' lyrics are central to the performance. "Vinicius was an established poet long
before he met up with Jobim," says Nestrovski.

Sadly, that poetry was all but destroyed in the English lyric, which is terrible! For
starters, the rhythm is all wrong. If you sing 'Tall and tan and young and lovely',
everything is on the beat, like a military march. Vinicius's Portuguese lyric: 'Olha que
coisa mais linda/ Mais cheia de graa ' scans very differently. It's languid, swinging,

irregular. The rhythm is displaced. It has an extraordinary mobility which mimics the
movement of the girl passing by.

This represented a shift in Brazilian lyrics. Where samba songs usually refer to the
public sphere carnival, social conflict, politics Bossa nova focuses instead on the
individual and the personal. Gilberto said that bossa nova is not

about tristeza, or sadness, instead it's about 'a touch of sadness'.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/01/bossa-nova-highest-culture-brazil