[Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

[Michael]

This is exactly my complaint with the "Argentine Tango" danced on "Dancing 
with the Stars." It's been orchestrated to match the 
slow-slow-quick-quick-slow of ballroom (international) style. I remember two 
seasons ago Derek and Kim danced Taquito Militar but it's not the version 
you would hear at milongas. It was difficult to recognize. AT doesn't follow 
a specific cadence which is why DiSarli, Pugliese, Tanturi, Fresedo 
orchestras all sound differently, but they are play tangos.

Michael
I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos at yahoo.com>
To: "Tango-L" <Tango-L at mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music





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


> (PATangoS) wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> It's not that it would be "wrong", it's that it wouldn't be tango. If you 
> put a tango melody to a cha cha rhythm, you
> get a cha cha. If you put it to a rock n' roll rhythm, you get a rock n' 
> roll tune. If you put it to a samba rhythm,
> you get a samba. Dance music is defined by its rhythm. Except for tango, 
> which is (fairly poorly) defined by its
> lack of one.
>

Let me try to clarify.  If a tango melody played straight through to a 
specific rhythm of 1-3-1-&3-4, for example, just to pull some numbers out of 
the air, wouldn't it still be a tango, even if the rhythm is repetitive?  Or 
are you saying that it would have to have some other variation?  And if so, 
why do you say that.

Trini