[Tango-L] NA-E: Tango music course in BA

[Ilene Marder]

In line with recent discussions about difficulty of learning tango 
music....Here is info on a tango music seminar in July in BA..... check 
out the web site for complete details and bios...
Ilene
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July 1 - July 13, 2007
CMS Summer Institute
Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and Practice
Buenos Aires, Argentina

In partnership with
the Academia Nacional del Tango
Conservatorio de Estilos "Argentino Galván"
Avenida de Mayo 833
1084 Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.anacdeltango.org.ar 
http://www.conservatoriogalvan.com.ar/index1.htm

Description

The CMS Institute "Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and 
Practice," will intersect tango scholarly studies with practical musical 
and cultural experience and provide participants with an authentic and 
holistic tango music experience in the city of the art-form's birth, 
Buenos Aires. The two-week intensive program will consist of a series of 
specially designed class activities, including seminars, instrumental 
group classes, and ensemble practice, given by The Conservatorio de 
Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galván" of the National Academy of Tango, 
as well as tango cultural and field excursions, organized by the 
Institute Director, Kristin Wendland. Seminar topics will give 
participants a broad overview of the history, poetics, repertory, and 
analysis; individual, group, and ensemble lessons will include 
bandoneón, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice; and 
cultural and field excursions will include tango music concerts and 
shows, tours of tango institutions, and visits to tango historic sites.

Musicians and scholars who do not play bandoneón, piano, violin, double 
bass, guitar, flute, or sing, may attend all academic seminars and 
participate as observers in the instrumental, vocal, and ensemble classes.

For traveling companions of Tango Institute participants, there will be 
a parallel program of tango dance classes and Argentine culture classes 
run by local arrangements coordinator Inés Freixas. (Please see "Culture 
Options.") Tango dance classes and time in milongas (tango dance halls) 
will be scheduled for traveling companions during the afternoon and 
evening while the Institute participants are in seminars and classes. 
Note: Although the program for Tango Institute Participants is very 
full, there will be some opportunities for those interested to take 
tango dance classes, and may be arranged on-site in Buenos Aires with 
the local arrangements coordinator.

Descriptions of the Institute Seminars and Classes

Note: Seminars and classes will be conducted in a series. All seminars 
will have Spanish-English translators.

Seminar: Tango History and Poetics (Arias, with guests Ferrer, Garello, 
and Montes) This seminar will give an overview of the history of tango 
styles with a philosophical focus and aesthetic comparison with other 
significant musical movements that ran parallel to the development of 
tango from the late 19th century to the present, such as late 
romanticism, post-tonal idioms, and the use of academic counterpoint in 
popular genres.

Seminar: Analysis and Repertory (Julián Graciano) Musical analysis 
applied to tango repertory from the 19th century to the present from the 
perspective of form, harmony, rhythm, etc.

Seminar: Introduction to Tango Performance (performance maestros; see 
list of instrumental faculty) Group break-out sessions by instrument: 
bandoneón, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice. Will 
cover specific knowledge of orchestral styles and techniques, as well as 
solo experimentation of yeites—special effects specific to tango styles.

Seminar: The Art of Teaching in Tango (Marcela Judith González and Juan 
Trepiana) The poetics of pedagogy. The art in the teaching and the 
teaching of the art will open a space of debate to reflect and to 
analyze the ways of transmitting and teaching the language of the tango 
as expression of the popular art in the framework of the academic and 
formal teaching. Will include a curriculum design for the teaching of 
the tango.

Vocal Seminar: (Maestra María José Mentana) Review of technical 
experience of the participants focusing in the necessities of the tango 
genre and significant concepts of tango interpretation; consideration of 
phonetics and comprehension of literary themes.

Instrumental Seminar: Elements of Ensemble and Orchestral Practice 
(Oscar De Elía) Manner in which instruments function in the tango 
orchestra, experiencing the stylistic resources used by the diverse 
significant tango orchestras. Basic concepts of tango orchestral 
conducting. Specific ensembles will be grouped after registration and 
specific repertory will then be selected.

Tutorials: (Assistants from the Conservatory) Special one-on-one tutors, 
including recent graduates of the Conservatory, young professionals, and 
advanced students, will assist participants during individual practice 
sessions.

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Call for Papers and Lecture-Demonstrations

To promote a cultural exchange between North-American musicians/scholars 
and our Argentine hosts (and also to broaden funding possibilities from 
participants' institutions), the Institute will include an attendee 
presentation session during the first week of the program.

Applicants may submit a 500-word abstract for a 20-minute paper or 
lecture-demonstration on topics related to jazz or tango-jazz intersections.

The deadline for submission is January 19, and notification will be by 
February 16. Proposals should be submitted to Institute Director Kristin 
Wendland at kwendla at LearnLink.Emory.Edu. All-email submissions with 
attachments are strongly encouraged. Audio recordings of representative 
material are required for lecture-demonstration proposals; attachment of 
mp3 files is strongly encouraged.

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Registration and Estimated Cost

Deadline for registration is Friday, April 20. A minimum of 20 
registrants will be required for this institute to occur. CMS strongly 
encourages interested persons to register as soon as possible, but to 
wait until receiving official confirmation that the quota has been met 
before purchasing airline tickets. In the event this institute is 
cancelled, all monies paid to CMS are refundable.

Click here to register online on the CMS secure server.


Participants' Basic Expenses

Institute Tuition $850
Average airfare to Buenos Aires* $1,100
Lodging ($60 per night x 13) $780
Meals @ $25 X 13 days $325
TOTAL $3,055
*AIRFARE DETAILS— Price estimate from October '06. Delta (from Atlanta 
and Houston), American (from NY and Miami), and United (from New York 
and Miami) fly to Buenos Aires. Participants are encouraged to obtain an 
estimate based on their own point of origin.

Optional Expenses—Please see Culture Options.

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Personnel and Faculty

Institute Organizer

Kristin Wendland is Board Member for Music Theory for The College Music 
Society. She teaches music theory at Emory University, where she also 
gives a course "Tango: Argentina's Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit," 
both as a Freshman Seminar and as a 300-level course on the June Summer 
Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires. She has read papers, participated 
in panel sessions, and led demonstration workshops on Argentine tango 
and music theory topics for The College Music Society, the Society for 
Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She recently 
organized, co-directed, narrated and performed on an Argentine tango 
program of music and dance by Tangueros Emory and Friends in March 2006. 
Wendland has traveled to Argentina for eight extended trips since 2000, 
and so she knows the city of Buenos Aires as well as its world of tango. 
She received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, which 
enabled her to give a seminar in Schenkerian analysis at the Universidad 
Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires and to pursue her research in the 
music of Argentine tango for seven months. While in Buenos Aires, she 
studies tango piano styles and arranging with the composer/pianist Sonia 
Possetti. Wendland is currently working on a tango music anthology and 
making arrangements for the Emory Tango Ensemble.

Coordinator of Classes and Seminars

Marcela Judith González received her Licenciada en Psicopedagogía 
(equivalent to a Masters' degree in Pedagogy) from the University 
Salvador in November, 1986. Since 2003, she has been the Pedagogical 
Coordinator for the Conservatorio de Estilos tangueros Argentino Galván, 
Academia Nacional del tango, where she designs special programs and 
coordinates the degree programs in arranging, instrumental, and vocal 
tango styles. She organized a series of special tango seminars for the 
World Tango Festival in Seville, Spain, in March 2005, and also gave a 
paper entitled, La enseñanza artística en el Tango: desafíos actuales 
(The Art of Teaching Tango: Challenges Today). Before coming to the 
Conservatory, she worked in her field of the psychology of pedagogy at 
other institutions in Argentina, such as Instituto Movilizador de Fondos 
Cooperativos, P.N.U.D/ B.I.R.F Promin-San Cayetano, Instituto 
Universitario Nacional de Arte, and the General de Cultura y Educación 
Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Local Arrangements Coordinator

As the daughter of an Argentine diplomat, during her childhood and 
adolescence Ines Freixas Thays lived and studied in Spain, England, and 
the USA. After graduating from high school in the USA, she returned to 
Argentina and studied in the Catholic University, graduating as an 
English teacher. For the past 23 years she has lived in the Province of 
Buenos Aires, in contact with the strongest traditions of the Argentine 
people. At present, Freixas Thays works in a bilingual school in the 
city of Buenos Aires and has also worked as a Berlitz instructor 
teaching both English and Spanish.

Faculty from the Conservatorio de Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galván"

INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES
Bandoneón: Maestro Osvaldo Montes
Piano: Maestro Oscar De Elía and Juan Trepiana
Violin: Maestro Fabían Betero
Double Bass: Maestro Domingo Diani
Guitar: Maestro Aníbal Arias and Ramón Maschio
Voice: Maestra María José Mentana
Flute: Alejandro Martino
HISTORY and THEORY CLASSES
Juan Trepiana
Marcela Judith González (see biography above)
Horacio Ferrer
Raúl Garello
Julián Graciano
Faculty Biographies