[Tango-L] types of valses?

[anfractuoso anfractuoso]

Ah, thank you!! That's exactly what I was hoping for. I can't believe
I missed that description of a boston style vals..

By the way, some of the dates are wrong on the excerpt on Rosita Melo
you quoted. She was indeed 14 when she composed this famous vals.
However this happened in 1911, not 1917. She was born in Uruguay to
Italian parents in 1897, not 1903, and emigrated to Argentina around
1899 when she was two years old (not in 1906).

Cheers


On 2/22/07, Ilene Marder <imhmedia at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  A friend was doing some research  and sent me this which happens to explain the 'boston style" vals you mentioned...
>  I had  not been aware of such a designation...but it is explained in the 5th section below, from planet tango...
>  (what I am amzed at is Senorita Rosita Melo wrote the music for this classic  queen of vals when she was 14 years old!)
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>        The making of Desde El Alma
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>        1159       5               by Alberto Paz
>        1159       6               Edited by Valorie Hart
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>        1159       8               Rosita Melo was born in Uruguay in 1903 but she lived in Argentina since 1906. She wrote the music for Desde El Alma, a Boston-style vals, at age 14 in 1917. In 1922 she married poet Victor Piuma Velez who wrote the first set of lyrics for Desde El Alma.
>        1159       9               It was a theme dedicated to the love of a mother. In 1948, Homero Manzi called to tell them that he was interested in including the song in his movie Pobre mi madre querida, but with different lyrics as demanded by the movie script.
>        1159       10               This would not affect the copyright ownership of the song. Piuma Velez and Rosita Melo opposed the idea, and requested that if Manzi wrote new lyrics, Piuma Velez's name should be included as co-author.
>        1159       11               Manzi agreed, the lyrics became famous and the vals, already a classic became universally famous.
>        1159       12        The Boston-vals is a style originated in the city of that name in the United States. It is associated with the piano and its characteristic is that the player does not mark the rhythm with the left hand as it is customary with that instrument.
>        1159       13               The rhythm is marked witht he right hand along with the melody. The left hand only marks the first note of the beat, the bass.