Contents of this pack:

Audio full-track: solo and base music.

Audio playalong-track: base music.

Score in C/B♭/E♭: Melody.

About this book

We conceived the publications in the “Noel Rosa instrumental” series in order to achieve the following objectives:

- To honor Noel Rosa's memory by recording and publishing his main hits from established arrangements, all in instrumental form.

- To document historical arrangements with transcriptions of melody, countermelody, bass and various improvisations. This is the case with Jacob do Bandolim's improvisations on the live recordings with Elizeth Cardoso and Dino 7-cordas, which until now had never been transcribed and published. In this volume 2 we have transcribed and performed the countermelody improvisations by Carlos Poyares, Orlando Silveira, Benedicto Lacerda, Jacob do Bandolim and Radamés Gnatalli, among others.

- Allow musicians, students and amateurs to play Noel Rosa's main compositions on their instruments. We generated different versions of the same audio, removing solos and countermelodies so that you can play each part.

Another objective of this work was to dedicate short solo improvisation sessions to various songs in this songbook, which have been transcribed into separate scores so that they can be used as a reference.

The improvisation sessions are indicated in the scores with slash notation, and the countermelodies have been removed from the playback tracks in these segments. All the solo improvisations, performed by the virtuoso clarinet player Alexandre Ribeiro, have been transcribed in dedicated scores.

The 7-string line, played by João Camarero, was also transcribed in a dedicated score.

Credits

Adaptations of well-known arrangements: Daniel Dalarossa and Italo Peron
Revisions and harmony transcriptions: Italo Peron
Transcriptions and score editing: Daniel Dalarossa
Mixing and mastering: Daniel Dalarossa
Recordings: Beto Mendonça (Estúdio 185 – SP – March and April of 2024)

Musicians:
Soloists:
Alexandre Ribeiro (clarinet), Izaias do Bandolim (mandolin).
Choro ensemble in “Choro”:
Alessandro Cardozo (cavaquinho), Charlles da Costa (6-string guitar), Netinho Albuquerque (pandeiro), Paulão (7 cordas) (7-string guitar).
Choro ensemble in the other songs:
Henrique Araújo (cavaquinho), Italo Peron (6-string guitar), João Camarero (7-string guitar), Roberta Valente (pandeiro).
Countermelodies:
Daniel Dalarossa (flute, clarinet, sax), Fábio Peron (mandolin).

Choro ensemble

Alessandro Cardozo – cavaquinho
Charlles da Costa – 6-string guitar
Netinho Albuquerque – pandeiro
Paulão (7 cordas) – 7-string guitar

Credits

Harmonic and melodic revision of the second edition: Ítalo Peron
Harmony transcription and revision (first edition): Marco Bertaglia (Chorando pra Pixinguinha, Cuidado Violão, Evocação, O Nó, O Despertar da Montanha) and Ítalo Peron (Choro, Flor do Abacate, Língua de Preto, Meu Caro Amigo, Serpentina, Só para Moer).
Recordings of the choro ensemble, editing, mixing, and mastering: Estúdio Umuarama, by Ricardo Calafate
General revision: Italo Peron
Solo recordings: Estúdio Umuarama (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Estúdio 185 (São Paulo, Brazil), Global Choro Music Studios (Fremont, CA).