Stardust | B♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for B♭ — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
Lyrics
1927 - Hoagy Carmichael Sometimes, I wonder why I spend The lonely nights Baby, lonely nights Dreaming of a song Melody my memory And I am once again with you When our love was new, oh babe Each kiss an inspiration That was long ago Now my consolation is In the stardust of a song Beside a garden wall When stars are bright You were in my arms, baby babe The nightingale tells his fairy tale A paradise, where roses bloom Though I dream in vain, oh babe In my heart, it will remain My stardust melody The memory of love's refrain Mama, mmmm, love's refrain
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this Stardust lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Stardust, written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1927, transposed for B♭ instruments — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major second above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in D major (concert C major), in 4/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Year
- 1927
- Key
- D major (written) · C major (concert)
- Edition
- B♭ transposed — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Ballad
- Tempo
- 72 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Great American Songbook
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Stardust chord changes
The chord progression of Stardust transposed for B♭ instruments (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet), written in D major — concert C major — 33 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a trumpet player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| D7♯5 | G6 | % | Gm6 | | % | D Em7 | F♯m7 B7 | Em7 A7 | | Em7 | A7 Adim7 | A7 | D | | Bm7 | E9 | % | A7 | | Adim7 D7♯5 | G6 | % | Gm6 | | % | D Em7 | F♯m7 B7 | Em7 A7 | | Em7 | G | Gm6 | D | | C♯7 F♯7 | G6 B7 E7 | A7 | D6 | | % |
