Details
- Ensembles:
- String Orchestra String Trio
- Genres:
- 20th Century Standards TV Movies Multicultural Tango
- Composers:
- Carlos Gardel
- Publishers:
- Natalia Chmielewska
- Format:
- Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Late Intermediate
- Musical forms:
- Tango
- Artist:
- Carlos Gardel
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 7
SKU: A0.1632576
Composed by Carlos Gardel. Arranged by Natalia Chmielewska. This edition: pdf. 20th Century, Chamber, Film/TV, Multicultural, Standards, World. 7 pages. Natalia Chmielewska #1200921. Published by Natalia Chmielewska (A0.1632576).From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Composer(s): Carlos Gardel
Lyricist(s): Alfredo Le Pera
"Por una Cabeza" (pronounced [ˈpoɾ ˈuna kaˈβesa]) is a tango song written in 1935 with music by Carlos Gardel and lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera.
The name is a Spanish horse-racing phrase meaning "by a head", which refers to a horse winning (or losing) a race narrowly – by just the length of its head. The lyrics speak of a compulsive horse-track gambler who compares his addiction for horses with his attraction to women.
Alfredo Le Pera was born in Brazil, son of Italian immigrants. Le Pera and Gardel died in an aeroplane crash in Medellín, on Monday, June 24, 1935.
"Por Una Cabeza" is featured in a famous tango scene in Martin Brest's film Scent of a Woman (1992), in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993), and in James Cameron's True Lies (1994).
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