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Bossa nova is probably the most well-known of all Brazilian music styles. It is a different version of samba, more elaborate, with more advanced music details. Bossa nova’s first generation's impressive international success from the early 1960s was not experienced by its second generation. They built their songs on the high quality of the first generation’s music and achieved a level of excellence that should be better appreciated internationally. Unfortunately, due to its absence in the popular media, younger generations do not know this very important period of Brazilian popular music and most of its singers and arrangers, despite being still active today, are unknown to new audiences. My project will compose and arrange twelve songs based on the aesthetics of the bossa nova second generation, with special attention to its independence of foreign elements and its high musical quality, including harmonic interpolations and elaborate melodies. Regarding the arrangements, the project aims to use the bossa nova second generation’s typical instrumentation of a rhythm section composed of piano, drum, bass, guitar, and percussion and an orchestra based on wind and string instruments.