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Evita

(Vocal Selections). The songbook for this movie musical spectacular features 12 beautiful Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice songs. Includes the Oscar-winning single "You Must Love Me" and the mega-hit "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," plus: Another Suitcase in Another Hall * I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You * On This Night of a Thousand Stars * She Is a Diamond * Waltz for Eva and Che * and more.

Paperback: 80 pages

Publisher: Hal Leonard (April 1, 1997)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0793578450

ISBN-13: 978-0793578450

Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.3 x 12 inches

Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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This is a nice collection of piano/guitar/vocal sheet music for the Evita movie (originally a musical). It includes Madonna's single "You Must Love Me" which was written for the movie and not a part of the original Broadway show.I would strongly recommend this book to anyone. The music is great and the arrangements are not too hard to play, for the most part. Personally I had trouble with "And The Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)" because it is in 7/4 time but in general any intermediate pianist should be able to enjoy this collection. "You Must Love Me", "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You" and "On This Night of a Thousand Stars" are particularly good, as well as the popular "Don't Cry For Me Argentina".

Pretty good value but I'm not sure if this is the easy version or if there are "more to it". There are some songs to the cd that I would have wish was on this book.One song download would have cost me $5...why not get the "whole" book of music...and I did.

overall, I like it. but in some areas, the second verses are not written out, they are bunched up as a paragraph at the end. That is not practical if you are singing or playing the music at the same time. It makes it hard to use this music book for performance purposes.

I got this for my sister for Christmas and after I looked through it when it came in the mail, I have full confidence she's going to love it. She'll be using it to learn the vocals but it looks like it would do well for someone wanting to learn to play the songs on the piano or guitar as well. The way it's bound could make it hard to stay balance and open on a music stand though. But other than that small detail, the notes and words all look correct and this would make a great gift for the singer or musician in your life who loves Evita

This isn't that helpful if you just want to play piano versions of the songs, since much of the music is background accompaniment to singers, and is useless without melody line from the singers.

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