In this unique book, Michael Lavocah takes you on a compelling journey through tango music. He introduces the key personages who shaped tango history and explains how they shaped the evolution of this music, telling their stories in a series of lively vignettes.
I was wondering what to write about in this blog post and I decided to cheat a bit and instead of writing something focused and practical, I would instead do a brain dump. However I will throw the reader a rope by repeatedly asking a focus question throughout so they can hopefully put this brain dump into a useful frame or context. So the focus question is this: What does it mean to be musical? Musicality in terms of Argentine tango dancing has been a long standing interest of mine.
Tango Stories - Musical Secrets Michael Lavocah
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This split tango into two schools, each with its own musical structure and style: The 'evolutionary' school (De Caro School) and the 'traditional' school (Canaro School). The 'evolutionary' school included the orchestras of Julio de Caro, Osvaldo Fresedo, Juan Carlos Cobián, Pedro Maffia, and Cayetano Puglisi. While the 'traditional' school consisted of Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo, Francisco Lomuto, Anselmo Aieta, and Edgardo Donato. "The 'tradional' school stressed the beat, and produced an infinitely more danceable tango."4 Some of the older generation would say, in reference to the evolutionary school, "They have turned tango into church music," because they were working more with melody and harmony. 2ff7e9595c