Saudades: Tango

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Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1925
Technique / Medium:
printing
Place of creation:
Brasil

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location details -- Gerard Behague and Everett Helm Latin American Sheet Music Collection, 1917-1969 > Series 1: Brazilian music for voice and piano, ca. 1920s-1940s > Box 1 > Folder 2: C-F. Digital image accession file: 2015-1205044-065a.

Description

Cover artwork for the tango "Saudades", by Cruz e Souza. The cover features an illustration of a dancing man and woman in formal dress with a simple crescent-shaped outline around them. The lyricist Cardoso dos Santos is not mentioned on the cover, but he is identified with his lyrics elsewhere on the sheet music.

Iconclass

43C92
one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple

Musical works

Souza, Cruz e -- Saudades
Lyricist: Cardoso dos Santos Genre: Tango. For voice and piano. Published by Sampaio Araujo & Cia., Rio de Janeiro, 1925.

RIdIM images


Gerard Behague and Everett Helm Latin American Sheet Music Collection, 1917-1969, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Image URLs

image link 1
Sousa Archives data and image

RIdIM record id

4906