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"Desafinado" is arranged in a relaxed bossa-nova improvisational style.

Desafinado began as a hit in Brazil before spreading to the United States. Though the popularity of Jobims The Girl from Ipanema sometimes overshadows Desafinado, the latter is still widely preferred among musicians when sets call for a bossa nova hit.

In 1961, Desafinado received a boost in popularity when Dizzy Gillespie performed the tune at the Monterey Jazz Festival as part of a musical safari.

Desafinado translates to out of tune in English. Though discord in the composition is limited to the standard blues flat fifth, the lyrics draw a parallel between a lack of harmony in music and discord in human relationships. Mendoncas lyrics depict a man pursuing a beautiful, perfect woman, yet all his actions and advances are construed as out-of-key.

Jobim's musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Among his teachers were Lúcia Branco and, from 1941 on, Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a German composer who lived in Brazil and introduced atonal and twelve-tone composition in the country. Jobim's mother established a school where Jobim would begin taking lessons on the piano; this is when he would meet Koellreutter.  Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and by the Brazilian composers Ary Barroso and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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