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ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  1 Bossa Nova ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 1 Bossa Nova
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In this volume you will find old favourites arranged in a modern manner. So there are some “classic” sambas which were much favoured by bandleaders, such as:
  • Alma Carioca
  • Coco de Copacabana
  • Milonga Sentimental, which has recently been recorded by Julio Iglesias entitled Mendiant d’AmourMendiant d'Amour
In this album, you will also find some modernized Mambos:
  • El Divorcio
  • O Amor E Bom, a Brazilian hit which won an award during a carnival in Rio de Janeiro
Some of the highly successful Boleros have also been brought up to date:
  • Aimer
  • Olvidar
  • je n'ai que toi
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  2 Paso Doble ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 2 Paso Doble
Sheet-book melody + figuring

This Album contains 30 Pasos-Dobles carefully selected from amongst the best Pasos-Dobles, which have been taken into the repertoire of a large number of musicians. Amongst them, you will find:
  • Bucaro
  • El Chispero
  • Gaillardo
  • Tonico
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  3 Valses musettes ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 3 Valses musettes
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30 waltzes have been chosen, including some old songs and some popular standards for the accordion, taken from our general catalogue, which started out in 1883. So this retrospective gives you the chance of listening again to:
  • Brin de Muguet , sung by Lisette Jambel
  • Deux Sous D'Violettes , sung by Arletty
  • Fleur de Seine , interpreted by Yves Montand
or
  • Les Hiboux , by Edith Piaf
  • Bling-Bling , rendered by Bourvil
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  4 Tangos Typiques ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 4 Tangos Typiques
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The tango started out in life some time between 1870 and 1880, and it is certain that without the bandoneon, the tango would never have become what it is today. This instrument was invented in 1860 by a German, Heinrich Band. Less than 10 years later, German sailors showed the instrument to Argentineans while their ships were in the port of Buenos Aires. It was generally accepted as part of the tango bands around 1880. In this album there are, amongst others:
  • Amigo Piazzolla
  • Che, Bandonéon
  • Fiesta de Tango
  • Milonga Cortada
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  5 Modern Style ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 5 Modern Style
Sheet-book melody + figuring

The “modern style” dance is derived from jazz with a dominating influence of Afro-American music and rhythm sections which can be varied, giving a variety of styles. This album is also a homage to French and American jazz. In it you will find numbers such as:
  • Blue Harlem
  • Rock and Folk
  • Jerk and Blues
  • Oh Happy day
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  6 CHA CHA CHA ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 6 CHA CHA CHA
Sheet-book melody + figuring

The Cha-Cha, a typical tropical dance, continues to be enjoyed by musicians and dancers who like exotic music. As you go through this album, you will come across different styles, such as:
  • Ay Cupido , Dario Moreno’s big hit
  • Choubidou-Bidou Poï Poï , another big hit from the American, June Richemont
  • Le Coupeur de Tête , recorded by Henri Genes, which won the O.R.T.F (French radio broadcasting authority) Humour Prize
  • Que Lindo Cha Cha , by Xavier Cugat.
  • ...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  7 Madison ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 7 Madison
Sheet-book melody + figuring

The Madison, which was really popular in the Sixties, was one of the solo dances which caught on at that time, like the Twist, the Hully Gully and others. It started in Philadelphia in 1960. In 1961 it featured in the film West Side Story in the long dance sequence. It came to France in 1962 and rapidly became a “must” for dances and parties; in this album, as in all those in this series, you will find a big choice of tunes by composers who are all well established, written out on a score with the chord figuring.

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  8 Valses viennoises ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 8 Valses viennoises
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According to a treatise on choreography written in 1782, Weber was one of the first composers to use the modern form of the slow waltz for his “Invitation to the Waltz”. Then came the Austrian, Johann Strauss, and Beethoven composed eleven Viennese waltzes for seven wind and stringed instruments…As for Schubert, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin and Ravel, they followed the lead at different times and in different styles: noble waltzes, sentimental waltzes, sad waltzes etc…each intended to convey a certain style.

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No  9 Boléros ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 9 Boléros
Sheet-book melody + figuring

The bolero is danced on slow and languorous airs, close to the rumba. It can be danced in various ways. One of them uses much the figures of the tango, but with a different basic step. We are happy to present an album including 30 traditional Boleros among which:

LE TORRENT (IL TORRENTE)
OUBLIE-MOI (Olvidar)
ENAMORADA ( Je te désire)
DESOLACION (Fleur des anciens printemps).
JE T’AIMERAI TOUJOURS
AMPARITO ( Sérenade argentine)
MORE CANDOMBE (Les amoureux de novembre) etc...

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 10 Tangos chantés ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 10 Tangos chantés
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Always Tango has been welcomed in the orchestras.
In this sheet book you'll find titles which were large successes sing or instrumental. These works, selected for their musical quality were not forgotten.
Thanks to new arrangements we can show that past still has future!

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 11 Sécial guinguette ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 11 Sécial guinguette
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To the XIX ème century one came to dance in these cabarets with the doors of Paris. The hammers, square and mazurkas left the place gradually with the waltz haversack, the java, and others dances more exotic like the tango, the rumba or the paso-doble. Today if little of them remained, one attends a true revival for these convivial places who make us rediscover all the richness of this cultural inheritance.

ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 12 Marches ENTREZ DANS LA DANSE No 12 Marches
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MARCH, one of the most popular dances from public, is a music whose practice is easy and enjoyable


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