Brazilian tunebooks

[Corinto]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Look here = [/font][font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]http://www.funarte.gov.br/partituras-brasileiras-online/[/font]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Lots of Brazilian sheet music. (edit=) About 1200 tunes.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Partituras Brasileiras Online – Música Popular – Vol. 8 is more specifically about gaita/sanfona/accordion.[/font]

 

[JerryPH]

Kind of like Brazilian Fake Books!

Nice find!

 

[Tom]

Cool!

 

[Deleted member 48]

Thank you for this information!

 

[Eddy Yates]

Thanks for this. I sent the link on to a bunch of my Brazilian music fanatics.

 

[wirralaccordion]

Not being familiar with the accordion music of Brazil I would be interested to know if any of these tunes in book 8 might be considered to be "standards" ( to those of us who can claim familiarity with this genre! ). Any ideas please, if not in the book but in general?

 

[donn]

Well ... Vol 8 is mostly northeastern, and my very modest familiarity with Brazilian music tends to lie elsewhere. But my impression is that the really familiar popular tunes from that genre arent here. Asa Branca, for example. I see that Caruaru de Camarão is represented on a couple youtube recordings, at least, so it isnt completely obscure, and its a nice example of that style.

Not all northeastern, though! Not only had I never heard of the tune or the composer, I dont recall that Ive ever heard anything like this: Pra Ti Guira, Gilberto Monteiro. Sort of a sweet, mellow 6/8 with the beat on 2 and 5. A good example of the general case: the sheet music offers little clue as to what this one sounds in the wild.

And of course theres the other books, if by standard you mean familiar popular music.

 

[Corinto]

Another site with hundreds (or thousands) of sheetmusic may or may not have more popular or more known tunes, but maybe not fully legal, or yes.

Link = https://www.superpartituras.com.br/

Then you go to POR GÊNERO and here you can find lots of typical brazilian tunes: Baião, Bossa Nova, Brega, Choro, Forró, Frevo, Maxixe, MPB, Pagode, Samba, Sertanejo, Xote, and more ...

Several versions of Asa Branca and Xote das Meninas ...

The FUNARTE volumes may not have too many popular tunes, because the composers may not want to see their best sheetmusic published in a free volume ... maybe other causes, who knows ...