D minor · Camelot 7A · 82 BPM
Triste
by Antonio Carlos Jobim
- 82
- BPM
- D minor
- Key
- 7A
- Camelot
- 43
- Danceability
- 96
- Acousticness
Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66 recorded "Triste" for their 1967 album Equinox, one of the earliest covers of the piece. The song had been written that same year by Antônio Carlos Jobim, who composed it with lyrics in both English and Portuguese. Jobim himself made the first recording, an instrumental version for his 1967 album Wave.
He wrote the song in late 1966 while staying at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles. He was waiting for Frank Sinatra to return from a holiday in Barbados so the two could begin work on their collaborative album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, released in 1967. Sinatra eventually sang it with Jobim two years later, during sessions for a planned second album that surfaced as Side A of Sinatra & Company in 1971. Jobim returned to it in 1980, cutting an English-language vocal version for Terra Brasilis.
Other artists took it up steadily over the following decades. Elis Regina recorded it with Jobim for Elis & Tom in 1974, João Gilberto sang it on Amoroso in 1977, and Sarah Vaughan included it on I Love Brazil! that same year. Ella Fitzgerald recorded it for Ella Abraça Jobim in 1981, and Joe Henderson's 1995 album Double Rainbow drew entirely on Jobim's music. Stan Getz and Cybill Shepherd also recorded the song, for their 1980 album Mad About The Boy.
Triste runs at 82 BPM, the tempo of boom-bap hip-hop, reggae and slow R&B. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.93 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 732 ms. It is in D minor, Camelot 7A, which shares its notes with F major and mixes cleanly with G minor and A minor.
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