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Tabu

Composed by Margarita Lecuona - Digital Sheet Music

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Scoring:	Piano/Vocal
Instruments:	Piano Voice, range: B3-D5
Range:	Voice:
Pro Credit Eligible:	Yes
Interactive:	Yes
Pages:	5
Product #:	MN0044630
Lyrics:	Contains complete lyrics

Tabu digital sheet music. Contains printable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file.

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Title:	Tabu
Composed by:	Margarita Lecuona
Instruments:	Piano Voice, range: B3-D5
Scorings:	Piano/Vocal
Original Published Key:	G Major
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0044630
Price:	$5.99 Includes 1 print + interactive copy with lifetime access in our free apps. Each additional print is $4.99
Number of Pages:	5
Average Rating:	Rated 4/5 based on 1 customer ratings
Top Review:	"The original song has suffered from much adaptation, reinterpretation from the very start,..." continued \| Read reviews
Lyrics Begin:	Alma del Africa lejana llena mi pecho de canla el pobre congo uhi jo de uesclavo an ora siempre las palmeras las foscas selvas primitivas de dioses misteriosos y de fieras Ochún y fa Obatalaba Chango y Yemayá

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Composed by:	Margarita Lecuona
Additional Performers:	Xavier Cugat Art Tatum Lecuona Cuban Boys
Arranger:	A. Brito
Number of Pages:	5
Form:	Song
Instruments:	Piano Voice, range: B3-D5
Scoring:	Piano/Vocal
Original Published Key:	G Major
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0044630
Metronome:	q = 108
Genres:	Latin Jazz Latin World Cuban Standards Traditional Pop

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Composer:	Margarita Lecuona
Lyricist:	Margarita Lecuona
Date:	1934
Publisher:	Peer International Corporation
Product Type:		Musicnotes
Product #:	MN0044630
Lyrics Begin:	Alma del Africa lejana llena mi pecho de canla el pobre congo uhi jo de uesclavo an ora siempre las palmeras las foscas selvas primitivas de dioses misteriosos y de fieras Ochún y fa Obatalaba Chango y Yemayá

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The original song has suffered from much adaptation, reinterpretation from the very start, to the extent that the original meaning tends to get lost, especially in English adaptatiions (where it is almost exclusively known today as an instrumental, and from the start if ever sung at all in english, slushy romantic words were substituted. This version here is not the orginal as sung by the author, because it has an extra verse added by her cousin Ernesto Lecuona that is used in a more well-known recording by the Lecuona Cuban Boys. In my view that detracts from the pure meaning of the orginal by introducing the (no doubt valid but) tangential male concerns about racial prejudice against black men mixing with white women. In its pure form it is the longing of the descendants of slaves for the ancestral spirit gods of africa. And a remarkable creation by the original author. For this reason I always sing it in Spanish and never without those additional lines shown in this version. The musical arrangement here is unexceptionable, though of course it is the percussion, rhythm and soulful delivery that makes the performance (lacking in the Cuban Boys recording I might add.)

Acky

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