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Carioca sheet music
Sheet music for Carioca (Ernesto Nazareth, the Rio de Janeiro pianist who shaped the tango brasileiro, published it in 1913. The style blends the habanera bass with Brazilian choro melody). Every arrangement below is a free PDF with its MIDI file.
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Carioca piano sheet music
The advanced setting follows Nazareth's original in B major across four pages, marked "con dolcezza". The left hand runs a steady sixteenth-note habanera figure while the right hand plays a syncopated choro melody with frequent accents. Five sharps and constant motion make it demanding, but the left-hand pattern repeats, so once it is secure the piece opens up.
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