Music
- Created by: Lone-wanderer
- Created on: 26-01-15 12:47
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- Tango
- Dance steps
- Abrubt head turns and leg kicks followed by flowing passages
- steps heavily based on improvisation
- Danced anti clockwise around the outside o the ballroom
- Danced in an embrace
- Instruments
- Played with a sextet
- 2 violins
- Piano
- 2 bandoneons
- Double bass
- Origins
- 1880's in slums and bars of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Tango Nuevo- classical and jazz influeneces
- Electro Tango - electric and traditional
- Characteristics
- Accented notes
- Nostalgic lyrics
- 4 beats in a bar
- Melancholy mood
- Syncopated ostinato
- Staccato followed by smooth passages
- Sudden dynamic changes
- Use of glissandos
- Composers
- Stravinsky
- Satie
- Albeniz
- Cage
- Dance steps
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