Aquarela do Brasil
Ary Barroso
SambaEb2/4
126
chords
19
different scales
11
tonal centres
First bars
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
One hundred and twenty-six chords, seventy-two of them dominants. It's the most dominant-driven tune in this library, and that's not a detail: the dominant is the chord that allows the most choice.
Fifty-six chords have more than one defensible reading — nearly half. Eleven tonal centres across six sections. That's why Aquarela sounds completely different in each musician's hands: everyone is choosing, even without knowing they chose.

