[Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Myk Dowling <politas at gmail.com> wrote:

Ah, but Trini, the difference is that La Cumparsita has been forced to 
comply to a rock rhythm, rather than having the free rhythmic structure 
of a tango. As soon as you bind it to a specific rhythm, you break the 
tango.


But, Myk, would it be wrong, though, for a tango to have a specific rhythm?  It could be very boring, but couldn't it still be defined as a tango?  It strikes me that older pieces would have had a repetitive structure.

Trini de Pittsburgh