[Tango-L] Musicality. What is it?

[Bruno Afonso]

Some people can stare at a painting for 10 years and not get it.
Others only need 5 seconds. I hope you get this.

BA

On 12/5/07, Igor Polk <ipolk at virtuar.com> wrote:
> To Huck, who wrote:
> "..you can't dance the song nearly as musically as you could if you did
> know the music intimately."
>
> No. I belive a musical piece has enough hints what is going on. Which are
> obvious for the trained ear.
> - First of all the next bar is similar to the previous. You will get the
> feeling and the rhythical pattern.
> - The second, part of the music later in the piece repeats itself more or
> less. With some variation, but that is what you expect, don't you?
> - the third - dancing to the melody, one can easy follow longer notes,
> sentences, and phrases. Because they are slow: you have plenty of time to
> react and to interpret. IF YOU KNOW HOW !
> - Part of it is that the music is WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR DANCERS ! It
> follows the patterns of Traditional Tango dance. So if you know the dance,
> TRADITIONAL DANCE (!), it MAGICALLY FITS INTO MISIC !
> - And the last, when one has fast reaction, one can immediatelly fit the
> dancing action into the most fastest twist in the rhythmical pattern or
> melody. One is not listening to music there. Instead, a couple completely
> intervines themselves with the music: body is listening. Music moves !  Even
> in Milonga! I can tell you.
>
>
> Ok, Ok, I am going to restrain myself pointing who "plods around clumsily
> like
> Frankenstein's monster."
>
> Igor Polk.
>
>
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