[Tango-L] What Do You Think? Milonga

[Andrew RYSER SZYMAÑSKI]

--- On Sat, 1/8/09, Keith Elshaw <keith at totango.net> wrote:

> From: Keith Elshaw <keith at totango.net>
> Subject: [Tango-L] What Do You Think?
> To: tango-l at mit.edu
> Date: Saturday, 1 August, 2009, 6:42 PM
> 
> Jack wrote:
> 
> "After all, Milonga only became part of the 'Tango Trinity'
> in the 1930s."
> 
> Uh - no.
> 
> Milonga pre-dated tango.

The milonga we dance nowadays [2 beats to the bar, fastish ,as in Milonga sentimental] only goes back to the 30's. The pre-dating one was a slow dirge played by the payadores towards the end on the 19th Century and hardly ever danced to. Piazzolla revived it in the 50's as "Milonga Campera": "Oblivion", "Milonga del angel" &c....True. the milonga campera eventually became more lively & turned into tango - that could be danced.

Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAÑSKI,
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London, W11 1HE,
07944 128 739.