Old and New Tango Sounds
(Last modified 15 nov 2007 - scroll for videoclips)
Are old tangos for old people? Were is the punch? A century ago, Astor Piazzolla's Tango Nuevo was a punch for many. It appealed and strengthened the revival of tangodance, young people started learning tangofigures. But some say that the longer you dance and like to step the 2x4 rhythm, the more you like the old tangos, such as Francisco Canaro's. One can't call it the sound of today, but the more we are touched by the subtility of the music, the more we are relating our dancing to the music's rhythm, melody, and mood.
To the ear that has become attuned to the old mixtures, modern "mainstream" electro performances often sound heavy and rhythmically dull. Paradoxically, for dancers of old tangos, the unique musical character comes through more clearly when they are performed with the lighter forces. With a less overpowering punch, one note interferes less with the hearing of simultaneous or neighboring notes. Greater transparency and greater dynamic contrast lend themselves, in turn, to greater rhythmic variety which is a difference that is usually pleasant.
Through subtle changes, the dancers are able to express a deeply emotional story. Such a musical story-line is in Francisco Canaro's music, exuberant gestures don't seem to fit in. Maybe that is why Poema is a favorite, it is a traditional or "Old Guard" tango.
Tango Argentino dance interpretations:
9 x Francisco Canaro's Poema
Music: Eduardo Bianco and Mario Melfi
Lyric: Mario Melfi and Eduardo Bianco
Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro
Singer: Roberto Maida
1935 Buenos Aires (early golden-age)
1- Poema, Pablo Rodriguez & Noelia Hurtado
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Rhythmic Patterns
Rhythmically, the traditional tango is based on the beat of two quarters (dos por cuatro), and is a music mainly dedicated to dance. The pattern of beats have a rythmical stability and are clear to the performer. When listening to the traditional tango "La Cumparsita" and begining to march following the rate of the music, its pulse, you discover that there are noticeably marked pulses and other weaker, and than each marked pulse it is followed by one weak one. The rhythm is a simple pattern of beats of differing weight that tends to repeat itself periodically throughout a music, where the first tends more to be accentuated than the rest. In the case of the Cumparsita, our ear tends to group two pulses, one accentuated or hard followed of one weak one.
Astor Piazzolla stretched the classical harmony and counterpoint and moved the tango from the dance floor to the concert stage. When listening to "Libertango", the rythmical sensation feels very different from the Cumparsita. There are shorter pulses and others have more length or duration, and they can be grouped in a rhythm of two long and one short one, the score is in 'three'. Piazzolla accentuates music in places that do not seem to "fit in" with the pulse, generating therefore the musical illusion of hearing pulses of different duration while, at the same time, the pulse does not change. Doing this type of divided rhythm or compound time signature (compás compuesto), generates a rythmical instability that confuses a rhythm dancer. It is a drastic change in the rythmical conception of the tango and it's visual representation. His tango nuevo compositions tell us something of our contemporary life, dancing it relates much to modern dance choreography.
In a way, as tango as social dancing had died out since 1955, Tango Nuevo gave tango a real audience again. It was a revelation for many, the new language of youth. Except for some "R&R-swing" and a "slow", the habit of dancing was lost. Now, couples wanted to dance on that intense music and connect as never before. In the 80'ies in Europe, young people started learning tango figures. Throughout time, followed the rediscovery of the old rhythm dance orchestras.
More Francisco Canaro Poema's:
2- Poema, Javier Rodrigues & Geraldine Rojas
3- Poema, Chicho Frumboli & Eugenia Parrilla
4- Poema, Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt
5- Poema, Pablo Inza y Moira Castellano
6- Poema, Natacha Poberaj & Fabian Peralta
7- Poema, Carlos Copello and Luna Palacios
8- Poema, Ricardo Vidort y Liz Haight
9- Poema, Angel Coria & Laura Legazcue
Cuando las flores de tu rosal
vuelvan más bellas a florecer,
recordarás mi querer
y has de saber
todo mi intenso mal...
De aquel poema embriagador
ya nada queda entre los dos.
¡Con mi triste adiós
sentirás la emoción
de mi dolor!...
More Tango Reflections, video illustrated:
Dance interpretations on Gallo Ciego
Walking the tango rhythm: 2x4 dos por cuatro
Walking Seduction
Dance is a physical need
Tangowals vals Milena Plebs Ezequiel Farfaro clips
Online Tangolessen videoclips videolessen updated
Carlos Gavito and Maria Plazaola
Showclips Forever Tango - great milongueros
The music's poetic content
It seems that a dancer is more than an organism that merely reacts to sensory information, he also makes a personal interpretation. For telling the story of the music, one has to catch the spririt of the music, the soul, the storyline, not just to the beat. A good dancer is one who makes you see the music. For dancing the music from inside out, the senses need to become conscious and this being sensible must be combined with the ability to direct attention in a self chosen direction, consciously. To make it a living, ongoing event, there must be this, rather magical internal trigger for action. The magical effect of music on people seems to be related to the music's narrative content, the spirit or spacial message. All tangos have a 2x4 rhythm, yet each tango has a different narrative content which changes the dancing. And... each dance couple feels the music differently, the story-making is different.
Regarding hearing music, there are two simultaneous streams of information: through the ears in music that is heard and in thinking music entirely in our brain. Stream 1 is the repetitive pulse (or beat). This is the unrolling canvas so to speak onto which the story of the music, Stream 2, is written or painted. The canvas - the pulse - represents who it is that is telling the story. The pulse is repetitive, the story develops, changes and contrasts. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. The pulse however goes on throughout, repetitively, and has no middle that coincides with the middle of the story. The central nervous system treats those two streams differently. The pulse will tend to go to the feet, the second stream conveys the unfolding story. Phrasing is part of the story stream.
Selected YouTube TangoVideos:
1. TangoClass - instructional vídeos - TangoLessons
2. Milonga and Candombe dancing
3. Tangovals clips - Tango waltzing - Valse - Tangowals
4. Various Great Tangoclips Online fast internet access
5. Fast Links to Selected Tango Dance Vidio Updates
6. Musicality & Humor in Tangodance - videoclips
Click here for MPEG tango vidios - videoklippeinä
Dancing is drawing
The origin of the word dance is: F. Danser, fr. OHG. Dansn to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, the act of drawing spatially closer. Drawing can exist on two levels: action drawing and gesture drawing. Gesture drawing is related to action drawing, both involve the principle of movement, but it goes further than action drawing. Action drawing only deals with physical movement: the action line, the axis. When you do a drawing of what a figure looks like, your drawing can be correct and competent but it will only be what the figure looks like, its appearance without a deeper emotional content. Physical movement however, has a nonphysical counterpart: its essence, its movement identity. Gesture drawing involves not only physical movement, but a deeper concept of essential identity, a search for the internal, a deeper spiritual meaning of things. When you do a gesture drawing of a figure, when you strive to capture the essence, its energy of being, the figure becomes alive. Carlos Gavito's dancing is such a way of gesture drawing. The music is touching him emotionally and he puts that nonphysical content into his movements. Through use of his own sensory and perceptual experience of the music, he is telling an emotional, narrative story.
Click for mpg tangoclips
Such inner liveliness is needed to give dance a soul. It is the active, introspective process that gives content to act of dancing together. One can only make contact if an appearance has a deeper emotional substance. Being drawn to each other, relates to a metaphysical reality: being drawn out of ourselves toward the other, goes beyond the physical act of coming closer...
Movement and the lived-body
Argentine tango is a new orientation of couple dancing. As most dances have a rational-pattern which can be predicted by the follower, the ballast of previous perceptions about strict rules has to be thrown overboard and replaced by a real communication contact, creating a direct non-verbal dialogue. This requires permanent attention and body connection in which movement is experienced. Motion as a form of touch, assumes a line of communication, a haptic listening and responsiveness to the other’s body, and being touched by the music.
Dancers develop this sensitivity in maturity. Mature ballet dancers acquire an attunement to the other that increases their enjoyment of performing. Performing no longer becomes a matter of ‘being seen’, no longer performing an optical illusion of ballerina lightness in front of the mirror, it also invokes the reciprocity of ‘seeing’, ‘touching’ the other, the audience through focus. Focus might be described as a (visual) ‘touching’ of the other, an intercorporeity of subjects mutually constituting each other during the event of performance. Intercorporeity means that the world is capable of encroaching upon and altering us, just as we are capable of altering it. Body and world, like past and present, are "interwoven", hooked together.
Movement as a form of touch is experienced rather than enacted, invisible rather than observable, independent of, rather than dependent on, a body which may be characterized by youth and a capacity for virtuosity, but may equally be old. These experiences can be described as transient moments, allowing passage beyond conscious control, you are not ‘trying to get somewhere’, signaling an intention of an as yet unrealized action: you are ‘already there’. Ekstasis, a Greek word for moving beyond oneself, does not depend on “how high you can get your leg up” or “the brilliance of your pirouettes”.
Ecstasy does not mean ‘body-less’, but rather ‘time-less’, rapture is not a disembodied state but rather an embodied experience outside time. Ekstasis and the ability to recall movement through body memory, support the notion of embodied consciousness. It is the body and its corporeally inscribed memories of movement that offers the embodied self the possibility of rescue from fragmentation. Recovering the inner self through dancing relates directly to body memory, the lived-body. Dancing can be a way of incorporating past into present and, especially in the face of physical ageing and the contemporary fear of being touched, maintaining continuity and inner growth.
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Music Gestures and the act of hearing
- A musician's ear:
A pianist says: "There’s nothing quite like learning to play a piece of music to really get inside it. Once I’m inside it, once I’m feeling through the piece with my own hands and working through its many parts with the microscope of learning, once I really start to “get it” about the music … it’s just staggering."
There is an unique spirit to every composer and every piece of music, and it’s the spirit that counts. If an artistic performance is to reflect the true spirit, a musician must first show a respect and an affection for the music. A violinist or singer performing with real sensitivity, immediately captures the one's attention and imagination. When the spirit of the music is characterized by counterpoint marking, clarity in the articulation is needed, every note has its place. In a contrapunta piecel, clarity of contrapuntal line is predominant, it dictates a slow and intentional interpretation. It is very important to display the architecture of the music, a good performer will study the architecture and reflect it in performance. Balance is vital too. Tempi also are extremely important. If the tempo is too slow, the piece drags. If too fast and vital, detail is lost and the performance reflects harmful haste. Many authentic performances adopt unsteady tempi, so that the music seems to move in waves.
- A dancer's ear:
Saber escuchar la música... The legendary dancer Carlos Gavito, recognized milonguero and Zen philosopher of the tangodance, says : The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. First, to dance it is to know how to listen to music. For example, Julian Plaza's “Nocturna” - Nocturnal- is like listening to the street at night, it is incredible, all dance... es como escuchar la calle Corrientes de noche. Es increíble cómo escuchás los ruidos y los bocinazos. Todo eso tiene que estar cuando bailás. In the music are all the steps. The low one, marks the walk of the man with all the problems of existence. There is the violin, which sounds as the woman.. That's why, when one is dancing and a very pretty part of violin comes, he has to say to the woman: "Dance me, dance me, bailame, bailame". Later the piano, that is the moment at which both are walking together. Then there is a comunión of movements. And El Bandoneón, in which lives the spirit of tango Argentino. It is like a pomp of soap and I get there in, inside. The pomp moves inside with me, but I do not move. This is essential to learn in tangodance, the real dance, that of the silence, of following the melody.
Carlos Gavito: The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the tango. "Lo importante es saber para qué queremos bailar. Bailamos una soledad que tenemos dentro de nosotros y no la podemos ocupar con nada. Ese vacío al que le ponemos movimiento es el tango."
Carlos Gavito (°1942), started his career as a tango dancer in 1965 in Buenos Aires. He joined the cast Forever Tango on December 1995, dancing and choreographing two classics of the show "S.V.P" and "A EVARISTO CARRIEGO", with Marcela Duran. He was a true representative of the so-called milonguero style, very close up and passionate dance. Carlos Gavito spent half of his life looking for this moment of illumination in the dance, his choreographies astonished people of the contemporary dance. He passed away on the 1st of July 2005.
Gavito Videoclip here ... and new here
Sound Imaging
Hearing music is more than listening, it is touching all of the senses simultaneously. In singing, the body's pulsations are protruded on to a stream of breath, thus revealing the singers emotions and offering a target for affective identification for the listeners. Even when listening to sounds of musical instruments, a part of the listening experience is a notion of the bodily activities that produce the sounds. A player's sense of a musical style is primarily felt in contact with the instrument, and can not be acquired through discourse. The physical effort to create sound is already part of the music. The bandoneón, originally ment as a small church organ, needs the musician's whole body to express a boundary-transcending sound. A musician is expressing himself through his instrument and connecting awareness to the whole body. He is not unpacking a digital audio format. Dancing on life music feels much different from a mp3 audio file which encodes music into a technological form. We interact through all our senses, the sensing body in movement has much more layers than its visual image, which often generates abstract images.
Concerning active listening and the ear, it has two facets. The mechanics of hearing are straightforward and well understood, but the action of the brain in interpreting sounds is still a matter of dispute among researchers. The mechanisms of sound interpretation are poorly understood, in fact is not yet clear whether all people interpret sounds in the same way. Until recently, there has been no way to trace the wiring of the brain, no way to apply simple stimuli and see which parts of the nervous system respond, at least not in any detail. Most studies in psycho-acoustics deal with the sensitivity and accuracy of hearing. We might assume that sound of a particular waveform and frequency sets up a characteristic pattern and that the brain deals with these patterns in the same way it deals with visual patterns on the retina. If a pattern is repeated enough we learn to recognize that pattern as belonging to a certain sound, much as we learn a particular visual pattern belongs to a certain face. The absolute position of the pattern is not very important, it is the pattern itself that is learned. It does appear to be a learned ability and about sensitivity, the ability to sense something. Each time we have learned to identify a particular pattern or recognition of disability awareness, we become more one with the soul of the music.
more here
The expressive power of music emerges originally from the more open and abstract musical story stream. But a piece may be well phrased and otherwise well performed, but without the pulse it lacks vitality and presence. This pulse affects the microstructure (duration and loudness) of each note played. Within the notes of a beat, variations as small as one millisecond are sensed, and each composer has his own unique way of incorporating microdurations into their work. Similarly, variations of a few percent in the loudness of a tone also has a marked effect on the emotional meaning of the composition.
Tango Figures
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Accueil vidéos séquences de tango d'un clic.
Partly Translations
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En français:
Lle tango Argentin
Tango porteño est un sentiment intérieur. Pour communiquer dans une danse, le sentiment doit être exploré et éprouvé à l'intérieur. La danse se produit entre les personnes dans une association intime. Elle a une qualité intime, il est presque comme si votre associé de danse est une partie de vous. Cette intimité dans la danse de couples est révolutionnaire. L'homme et la femme dansent étroitement ensemble et créent un dialogue direct et non-verbal. Faisant ce qu'elles veulent. Pour ceci, la créativité et la sensibilité est voulue des danseurs. Il est au sujet d'exprimer des émotions et la capacité de diriger l'attention dans une direction choisie. Pour créer une représentation coordonnée, une impulsion interne est sentie. Cette communication fait à la danse de tango une nouvelle orientation de la façon que les couples dansent ensemble. Vraisemblablement, ce changement répond à l'esprit de temps à la fin du siècle, comme la psycho-analyse autour de 1900. Accueil vidéos séquences de tango d'un clic.
In italiano
Argentijnse tango
Tango è una sensazione interna. Per comunicare in una danza, un ballo, la sensibilità - la sensazione deve essere esplorata e provata dentro, all'interno. La danza si produce tra le persone in un'associazione intima. Ha una qualità intima, è quasi come se il vostro socio di danza sia una parte di voi. Quest'intimità nella danza di coppie è rivoluzionaria. L'uomo e la donna ballano strettamente insieme e creano un dialogo diretto e non verbale. Facendo ciò che vogliono. Per questo, la creatività e la sensibilità è voluta dei ballerini. È su esprimere su emozioni e la capacità di dirigere l'attenzione in una direzione scelta. Per creare una rappresentazione coordinata, un impulso interno è sentito. Questa comunicazione fa alla danza di tango un nuovo orientamento nel modo che le coppie ballano insieme.
Em português:
Argentinské tango, dançarinos argentinos.
Tango é um sentimento interno. Para comunicar numa dança, o sentimento deve ser explorado e provado dentro. A dança produz-se entre as pessoas numa associação íntima. Tem uma qualidade íntima, quase está como se o vosso associado de dança é uma parte de vocês. Esta intimidade na dança de casais é revolucionária. Dançarinos, O homem e a mulher dançam estreitamente juntos e criam um diálogo directo. Fazendo que querem. Para isto, a criatividade e a sensibilidade é queridas dos dançarinos. Está a respeito de exprimir de emoções e a capacidade de dirigir a atenção numa direcção escolhida. Para criar uma representação coordenada, um impulso interno é sentido. Esta comunicação faz à dança de tango uma nova orientação da maneira que os casais dançam juntos.
Auf deutsch:
Tango Argentynskie Tanzphilosophie
Argentinische Tango ist ein inneres Gefühl. Um in einem Tanz in Verbindung zu stehen, muß das Gefühl nach innen erforscht werden und erfahren werden. Der Tanz geschieht zwischen Leuten in einer vertrauten Teilhaberschaft. Er hat eine vertraute Qualität, es ist fast, als wenn Ihr Tanzpartner ein Teil von Ihnen ist. Diese Nähe im Paartanz ist revolutionär. Der Mann und die Frau tanzen nahe zusammen und verursachen einen direkten, ohne Worte Dialog. Tun, was sie wünschen. Für dieses wird Kreativität und Empfindlichkeit von den Tänzern gewünscht. Er ist über das Ausdrücken von von Gefühlen und von von Fähigkeit, Aufmerksamkeit in einer gewählten Richtung zu verweisen. Für das Verursachen einer koordinierten Darstellung, wird ein interner Antrieb abgefragt. Diese Kommunikation bildet den argentinischen tango Tanz eine neue Lagebestimmung in der Weise, die Paare zusammen tanzen.
En español:
Nada hay tan íntimo y público a la vez… como bailar. El tango, como toda manifestación popular, nace espontáneamente en Argentina, resultado de la necesidad de expresión del pueblo, a fines de la década de 1870. Es el lenguaje del cuerpo que permite al alma expresar sus sentimientos, pasión y fuerza que crea y se recrea en la belleza y la dinámica del movimiento. Fuertes emociones, en particular, que llevan a los órganos a un punto de exaltación que espontáneamente se manifiesta a si mismo a través de movimientos más o menos rítmicos que constituyen lo que se podría considerar como danzas naturales. Las expresiones espontaneas, como tambien el arte de bailar, pueden ser descritos como una expresión de los sentimientos por medio de los movimientos del cuerpo mas o menos controlados por el propio sentido rítmico. El baile, como arte era utilizado para varios propósitos. El arte existe en todos lados de la ciudad y en formas infinitas.
El Tango es un sentimiento interior. Para comunicar en una danza, el sentimiento debe explorarse y probarse dentro. La danza se produce entre las personas en una asociación íntima. Tiene una calidad íntima, casi está como si su asociado de danza es una parte ustedes. Esta intimidad en la danza de pares es revolucionaria. El hombre y la mujer bailan estrechamente juntos y crean un diálogo directo y no verbal. Haciendo lo que quieren. Para esto, la creatividad y la sensibilidad se quieren de los bailarines. Está con respecto a expresar emociones y la capacidad de dirigir la atención en una dirección elegida. Para crear una representación coordinada, se siente un impulso interno. Esta comunicación hace a la danza de tango una nueva orientación de la manera que los pares bailan juntos.
La sensualidad del tango, la conexión corporal, puede ser muy pesada, apasionada, y seria. En el tango no existía la regularidad de las viejas danzas como el vals o la polca y por eso fue necesario creer una técnica en la cual la pareja podía realizar una figura en el momento sin anticipación. El lugar donde se desarrolló más el tango al principio del sigo XX fue dentro de las burdeles donde los hombres bailaban en una forma mucho más sensual que permitirían las estrictas reglas sociales de la sociedad respetuosa. La mujer tenía que seguir siempre el hombre paso por paso moviéndose con sus caprichos y así se fue formando la estructura de la danza que se sigue bailando hoy en día. En un baile tan íntimo, no se puede bailar con cualquier hombre. Así que la mirada tiene un papel muy importante en la cultura del tango. La mirada en el baile es intima pero liviana. La mirada también existe en relación al publico, que está siempre presente en los milongas. El tango es como un espejo, en su capacidad de reflejar todo el desarrollo de una identidad social y relaciones sociales.
Las transformaciones en el espíritu del tango
La pregunta que se impone, es: ¿ por qué el tango, música del instinto sexual y de la algarabía prostibularia se convierte en tan pocos años en un discurso que afirma valores morales tan opuestos a los que le dieron origen? ¿Por qué el placer se transmuta en condena y el regocijo en melancolía ?
Entre 1900 y 1910 ese incipiente tango que se expresaba en prostíbulos y arrabales de las afueras de la ciudad, empezó lentamente a ganar terreno en los cabarets y pequeños teatros de Buenos Aires. De sus origines el tango fue una expresión cultural degenerado muy particular a la situación social Argentina, pero cuando el tango fue aprobado al exterior se convirtió de repente en una imagen de la identidad nacional. Igualmente, se concretan ciertos símbolos sociales que pasarán a formar parte del folklore ciudadano. Para los élites Argentinos el tango todavía pertenecía a otro sector de la sociedad, y implicaba una identidad ajena de los inmigrantes, los guapos, las prostitutas y todo un mundo nocturnal y peligroso de la calle. La música es otra forma de arte que es muy importante en la cultura argentina. Muchos argentinos hablan de ella con tanta pasión y orgullo. La historia del tango entra así en un contexto más amplio de historia de gente exiliada y ilegítima en búsqueda de una identidad propia, reconocimiento y dignidad.
El tango, apadrinado por los grupos sociales que el centro no admitía: inmigrantes, veteranos del ejército, ex-esclavos, todos proletarios en busca de una nueva vida que superara el perfil miserable y promíscuo de su marginación. El Lunfardo, una lengua que muchos asimilan a gente de mala vida, empleada para que resultara incomprensible a las autoridades. En ese "idioma" popular ya por entonces característico de los bajos fondos, predominan los términos de diversos dialectos italianos, con algo de café gitano español y el argot francés. El tango lo elegirá posteriormente como su lengua predilecta, ya ampliamente divulgada por el teatro y el intercambio personal que se hacía en los numerosos sitios bailables, y otros lugares no muy santos, entre "niños bien" del centro y "compadritos" orilleros. Así, el tango pasa a los cafés y bares del centro, donde el contacto entre las diferentes clases sociales resulta ya cosa normal y corriente. Es en los salones donde comienza una nueva etapa para la música ciudadana, sea como música como para danza. Cuando el tango "se hace decente", sin cortes ni quebradas, para alegrar fiestas de familia, viviendo un notable auge que arranca a principios de la década del '30 y eclosiona con una popularidad sin igual entre 1940 y 1960. Cuando se extiende a toda la ciudad y se convierte en la música de Buenos Aires, cuando proliferan compositores y poetas, es el mismo tango el que dice de sí mismo ser un veneno que fascina, capaz de llevar a las almas más nobles por el camino del mal. Hoy, merced a la llegada de oleadas de turistas extranjeros que hacen florecer la economía e incentivan la inversión en locales de entretenimientos y academias de baile, el tango está viviendo un renacer que algunos años atrás nadie hubiera imaginado.
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(Last modified 15 nov 2007 - scroll for videoclips)
Are old tangos for old people? Were is the punch? A century ago, Astor Piazzolla's Tango Nuevo was a punch for many. It appealed and strengthened the revival of tangodance, young people started learning tangofigures. But some say that the longer you dance and like to step the 2x4 rhythm, the more you like the old tangos, such as Francisco Canaro's. One can't call it the sound of today, but the more we are touched by the subtility of the music, the more we are relating our dancing to the music's rhythm, melody, and mood.
To the ear that has become attuned to the old mixtures, modern "mainstream" electro performances often sound heavy and rhythmically dull. Paradoxically, for dancers of old tangos, the unique musical character comes through more clearly when they are performed with the lighter forces. With a less overpowering punch, one note interferes less with the hearing of simultaneous or neighboring notes. Greater transparency and greater dynamic contrast lend themselves, in turn, to greater rhythmic variety which is a difference that is usually pleasant.
Through subtle changes, the dancers are able to express a deeply emotional story. Such a musical story-line is in Francisco Canaro's music, exuberant gestures don't seem to fit in. Maybe that is why Poema is a favorite, it is a traditional or "Old Guard" tango.
Tango Argentino dance interpretations:
9 x Francisco Canaro's Poema
Music: Eduardo Bianco and Mario Melfi
Lyric: Mario Melfi and Eduardo Bianco
Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro
Singer: Roberto Maida
1935 Buenos Aires (early golden-age)
1- Poema, Pablo Rodriguez & Noelia Hurtado
(scroll for more interpretations)
Rhythmic Patterns
Rhythmically, the traditional tango is based on the beat of two quarters (dos por cuatro), and is a music mainly dedicated to dance. The pattern of beats have a rythmical stability and are clear to the performer. When listening to the traditional tango "La Cumparsita" and begining to march following the rate of the music, its pulse, you discover that there are noticeably marked pulses and other weaker, and than each marked pulse it is followed by one weak one. The rhythm is a simple pattern of beats of differing weight that tends to repeat itself periodically throughout a music, where the first tends more to be accentuated than the rest. In the case of the Cumparsita, our ear tends to group two pulses, one accentuated or hard followed of one weak one.
Astor Piazzolla stretched the classical harmony and counterpoint and moved the tango from the dance floor to the concert stage. When listening to "Libertango", the rythmical sensation feels very different from the Cumparsita. There are shorter pulses and others have more length or duration, and they can be grouped in a rhythm of two long and one short one, the score is in 'three'. Piazzolla accentuates music in places that do not seem to "fit in" with the pulse, generating therefore the musical illusion of hearing pulses of different duration while, at the same time, the pulse does not change. Doing this type of divided rhythm or compound time signature (compás compuesto), generates a rythmical instability that confuses a rhythm dancer. It is a drastic change in the rythmical conception of the tango and it's visual representation. His tango nuevo compositions tell us something of our contemporary life, dancing it relates much to modern dance choreography.
In a way, as tango as social dancing had died out since 1955, Tango Nuevo gave tango a real audience again. It was a revelation for many, the new language of youth. Except for some "R&R-swing" and a "slow", the habit of dancing was lost. Now, couples wanted to dance on that intense music and connect as never before. In the 80'ies in Europe, young people started learning tango figures. Throughout time, followed the rediscovery of the old rhythm dance orchestras.
More Francisco Canaro Poema's:
2- Poema, Javier Rodrigues & Geraldine Rojas
3- Poema, Chicho Frumboli & Eugenia Parrilla
4- Poema, Ney Melo & Jennifer Bratt
5- Poema, Pablo Inza y Moira Castellano
6- Poema, Natacha Poberaj & Fabian Peralta
7- Poema, Carlos Copello and Luna Palacios
8- Poema, Ricardo Vidort y Liz Haight
9- Poema, Angel Coria & Laura Legazcue
Cuando las flores de tu rosal
vuelvan más bellas a florecer,
recordarás mi querer
y has de saber
todo mi intenso mal...
De aquel poema embriagador
ya nada queda entre los dos.
¡Con mi triste adiós
sentirás la emoción
de mi dolor!...
More Tango Reflections, video illustrated:
Dance interpretations on Gallo Ciego
Walking the tango rhythm: 2x4 dos por cuatro
Walking Seduction
Dance is a physical need
Tangowals vals Milena Plebs Ezequiel Farfaro clips
Online Tangolessen videoclips videolessen updated
Carlos Gavito and Maria Plazaola
Showclips Forever Tango - great milongueros
The music's poetic content
It seems that a dancer is more than an organism that merely reacts to sensory information, he also makes a personal interpretation. For telling the story of the music, one has to catch the spririt of the music, the soul, the storyline, not just to the beat. A good dancer is one who makes you see the music. For dancing the music from inside out, the senses need to become conscious and this being sensible must be combined with the ability to direct attention in a self chosen direction, consciously. To make it a living, ongoing event, there must be this, rather magical internal trigger for action. The magical effect of music on people seems to be related to the music's narrative content, the spirit or spacial message. All tangos have a 2x4 rhythm, yet each tango has a different narrative content which changes the dancing. And... each dance couple feels the music differently, the story-making is different.
Regarding hearing music, there are two simultaneous streams of information: through the ears in music that is heard and in thinking music entirely in our brain. Stream 1 is the repetitive pulse (or beat). This is the unrolling canvas so to speak onto which the story of the music, Stream 2, is written or painted. The canvas - the pulse - represents who it is that is telling the story. The pulse is repetitive, the story develops, changes and contrasts. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. The pulse however goes on throughout, repetitively, and has no middle that coincides with the middle of the story. The central nervous system treats those two streams differently. The pulse will tend to go to the feet, the second stream conveys the unfolding story. Phrasing is part of the story stream.
Selected YouTube TangoVideos:
1. TangoClass - instructional vídeos - TangoLessons
2. Milonga and Candombe dancing
3. Tangovals clips - Tango waltzing - Valse - Tangowals
4. Various Great Tangoclips Online fast internet access
5. Fast Links to Selected Tango Dance Vidio Updates
6. Musicality & Humor in Tangodance - videoclips
Click here for MPEG tango vidios - videoklippeinä
Dancing is drawing
The origin of the word dance is: F. Danser, fr. OHG. Dansn to draw; akin to dinsan to draw, the act of drawing spatially closer. Drawing can exist on two levels: action drawing and gesture drawing. Gesture drawing is related to action drawing, both involve the principle of movement, but it goes further than action drawing. Action drawing only deals with physical movement: the action line, the axis. When you do a drawing of what a figure looks like, your drawing can be correct and competent but it will only be what the figure looks like, its appearance without a deeper emotional content. Physical movement however, has a nonphysical counterpart: its essence, its movement identity. Gesture drawing involves not only physical movement, but a deeper concept of essential identity, a search for the internal, a deeper spiritual meaning of things. When you do a gesture drawing of a figure, when you strive to capture the essence, its energy of being, the figure becomes alive. Carlos Gavito's dancing is such a way of gesture drawing. The music is touching him emotionally and he puts that nonphysical content into his movements. Through use of his own sensory and perceptual experience of the music, he is telling an emotional, narrative story.
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Such inner liveliness is needed to give dance a soul. It is the active, introspective process that gives content to act of dancing together. One can only make contact if an appearance has a deeper emotional substance. Being drawn to each other, relates to a metaphysical reality: being drawn out of ourselves toward the other, goes beyond the physical act of coming closer...
Movement and the lived-body
Argentine tango is a new orientation of couple dancing. As most dances have a rational-pattern which can be predicted by the follower, the ballast of previous perceptions about strict rules has to be thrown overboard and replaced by a real communication contact, creating a direct non-verbal dialogue. This requires permanent attention and body connection in which movement is experienced. Motion as a form of touch, assumes a line of communication, a haptic listening and responsiveness to the other’s body, and being touched by the music.
Dancers develop this sensitivity in maturity. Mature ballet dancers acquire an attunement to the other that increases their enjoyment of performing. Performing no longer becomes a matter of ‘being seen’, no longer performing an optical illusion of ballerina lightness in front of the mirror, it also invokes the reciprocity of ‘seeing’, ‘touching’ the other, the audience through focus. Focus might be described as a (visual) ‘touching’ of the other, an intercorporeity of subjects mutually constituting each other during the event of performance. Intercorporeity means that the world is capable of encroaching upon and altering us, just as we are capable of altering it. Body and world, like past and present, are "interwoven", hooked together.
Movement as a form of touch is experienced rather than enacted, invisible rather than observable, independent of, rather than dependent on, a body which may be characterized by youth and a capacity for virtuosity, but may equally be old. These experiences can be described as transient moments, allowing passage beyond conscious control, you are not ‘trying to get somewhere’, signaling an intention of an as yet unrealized action: you are ‘already there’. Ekstasis, a Greek word for moving beyond oneself, does not depend on “how high you can get your leg up” or “the brilliance of your pirouettes”.
Ecstasy does not mean ‘body-less’, but rather ‘time-less’, rapture is not a disembodied state but rather an embodied experience outside time. Ekstasis and the ability to recall movement through body memory, support the notion of embodied consciousness. It is the body and its corporeally inscribed memories of movement that offers the embodied self the possibility of rescue from fragmentation. Recovering the inner self through dancing relates directly to body memory, the lived-body. Dancing can be a way of incorporating past into present and, especially in the face of physical ageing and the contemporary fear of being touched, maintaining continuity and inner growth.
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Music Gestures and the act of hearing
- A musician's ear:
A pianist says: "There’s nothing quite like learning to play a piece of music to really get inside it. Once I’m inside it, once I’m feeling through the piece with my own hands and working through its many parts with the microscope of learning, once I really start to “get it” about the music … it’s just staggering."
There is an unique spirit to every composer and every piece of music, and it’s the spirit that counts. If an artistic performance is to reflect the true spirit, a musician must first show a respect and an affection for the music. A violinist or singer performing with real sensitivity, immediately captures the one's attention and imagination. When the spirit of the music is characterized by counterpoint marking, clarity in the articulation is needed, every note has its place. In a contrapunta piecel, clarity of contrapuntal line is predominant, it dictates a slow and intentional interpretation. It is very important to display the architecture of the music, a good performer will study the architecture and reflect it in performance. Balance is vital too. Tempi also are extremely important. If the tempo is too slow, the piece drags. If too fast and vital, detail is lost and the performance reflects harmful haste. Many authentic performances adopt unsteady tempi, so that the music seems to move in waves.
- A dancer's ear:
Saber escuchar la música... The legendary dancer Carlos Gavito, recognized milonguero and Zen philosopher of the tangodance, says : The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence. First, to dance it is to know how to listen to music. For example, Julian Plaza's “Nocturna” - Nocturnal- is like listening to the street at night, it is incredible, all dance... es como escuchar la calle Corrientes de noche. Es increíble cómo escuchás los ruidos y los bocinazos. Todo eso tiene que estar cuando bailás. In the music are all the steps. The low one, marks the walk of the man with all the problems of existence. There is the violin, which sounds as the woman.. That's why, when one is dancing and a very pretty part of violin comes, he has to say to the woman: "Dance me, dance me, bailame, bailame". Later the piano, that is the moment at which both are walking together. Then there is a comunión of movements. And El Bandoneón, in which lives the spirit of tango Argentino. It is like a pomp of soap and I get there in, inside. The pomp moves inside with me, but I do not move. This is essential to learn in tangodance, the real dance, that of the silence, of following the melody.
Carlos Gavito: The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the tango. "Lo importante es saber para qué queremos bailar. Bailamos una soledad que tenemos dentro de nosotros y no la podemos ocupar con nada. Ese vacío al que le ponemos movimiento es el tango."
Carlos Gavito (°1942), started his career as a tango dancer in 1965 in Buenos Aires. He joined the cast Forever Tango on December 1995, dancing and choreographing two classics of the show "S.V.P" and "A EVARISTO CARRIEGO", with Marcela Duran. He was a true representative of the so-called milonguero style, very close up and passionate dance. Carlos Gavito spent half of his life looking for this moment of illumination in the dance, his choreographies astonished people of the contemporary dance. He passed away on the 1st of July 2005.
Gavito Videoclip here ... and new here
Sound Imaging
Hearing music is more than listening, it is touching all of the senses simultaneously. In singing, the body's pulsations are protruded on to a stream of breath, thus revealing the singers emotions and offering a target for affective identification for the listeners. Even when listening to sounds of musical instruments, a part of the listening experience is a notion of the bodily activities that produce the sounds. A player's sense of a musical style is primarily felt in contact with the instrument, and can not be acquired through discourse. The physical effort to create sound is already part of the music. The bandoneón, originally ment as a small church organ, needs the musician's whole body to express a boundary-transcending sound. A musician is expressing himself through his instrument and connecting awareness to the whole body. He is not unpacking a digital audio format. Dancing on life music feels much different from a mp3 audio file which encodes music into a technological form. We interact through all our senses, the sensing body in movement has much more layers than its visual image, which often generates abstract images.
Concerning active listening and the ear, it has two facets. The mechanics of hearing are straightforward and well understood, but the action of the brain in interpreting sounds is still a matter of dispute among researchers. The mechanisms of sound interpretation are poorly understood, in fact is not yet clear whether all people interpret sounds in the same way. Until recently, there has been no way to trace the wiring of the brain, no way to apply simple stimuli and see which parts of the nervous system respond, at least not in any detail. Most studies in psycho-acoustics deal with the sensitivity and accuracy of hearing. We might assume that sound of a particular waveform and frequency sets up a characteristic pattern and that the brain deals with these patterns in the same way it deals with visual patterns on the retina. If a pattern is repeated enough we learn to recognize that pattern as belonging to a certain sound, much as we learn a particular visual pattern belongs to a certain face. The absolute position of the pattern is not very important, it is the pattern itself that is learned. It does appear to be a learned ability and about sensitivity, the ability to sense something. Each time we have learned to identify a particular pattern or recognition of disability awareness, we become more one with the soul of the music.
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The expressive power of music emerges originally from the more open and abstract musical story stream. But a piece may be well phrased and otherwise well performed, but without the pulse it lacks vitality and presence. This pulse affects the microstructure (duration and loudness) of each note played. Within the notes of a beat, variations as small as one millisecond are sensed, and each composer has his own unique way of incorporating microdurations into their work. Similarly, variations of a few percent in the loudness of a tone also has a marked effect on the emotional meaning of the composition.
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Accueil vidéos séquences de tango d'un clic.
Partly Translations
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En français:
Lle tango Argentin
Tango porteño est un sentiment intérieur. Pour communiquer dans une danse, le sentiment doit être exploré et éprouvé à l'intérieur. La danse se produit entre les personnes dans une association intime. Elle a une qualité intime, il est presque comme si votre associé de danse est une partie de vous. Cette intimité dans la danse de couples est révolutionnaire. L'homme et la femme dansent étroitement ensemble et créent un dialogue direct et non-verbal. Faisant ce qu'elles veulent. Pour ceci, la créativité et la sensibilité est voulue des danseurs. Il est au sujet d'exprimer des émotions et la capacité de diriger l'attention dans une direction choisie. Pour créer une représentation coordonnée, une impulsion interne est sentie. Cette communication fait à la danse de tango une nouvelle orientation de la façon que les couples dansent ensemble. Vraisemblablement, ce changement répond à l'esprit de temps à la fin du siècle, comme la psycho-analyse autour de 1900. Accueil vidéos séquences de tango d'un clic.
In italiano
Argentijnse tango
Tango è una sensazione interna. Per comunicare in una danza, un ballo, la sensibilità - la sensazione deve essere esplorata e provata dentro, all'interno. La danza si produce tra le persone in un'associazione intima. Ha una qualità intima, è quasi come se il vostro socio di danza sia una parte di voi. Quest'intimità nella danza di coppie è rivoluzionaria. L'uomo e la donna ballano strettamente insieme e creano un dialogo diretto e non verbale. Facendo ciò che vogliono. Per questo, la creatività e la sensibilità è voluta dei ballerini. È su esprimere su emozioni e la capacità di dirigere l'attenzione in una direzione scelta. Per creare una rappresentazione coordinata, un impulso interno è sentito. Questa comunicazione fa alla danza di tango un nuovo orientamento nel modo che le coppie ballano insieme.
Em português:
Argentinské tango, dançarinos argentinos.
Tango é um sentimento interno. Para comunicar numa dança, o sentimento deve ser explorado e provado dentro. A dança produz-se entre as pessoas numa associação íntima. Tem uma qualidade íntima, quase está como se o vosso associado de dança é uma parte de vocês. Esta intimidade na dança de casais é revolucionária. Dançarinos, O homem e a mulher dançam estreitamente juntos e criam um diálogo directo. Fazendo que querem. Para isto, a criatividade e a sensibilidade é queridas dos dançarinos. Está a respeito de exprimir de emoções e a capacidade de dirigir a atenção numa direcção escolhida. Para criar uma representação coordenada, um impulso interno é sentido. Esta comunicação faz à dança de tango uma nova orientação da maneira que os casais dançam juntos.
Auf deutsch:
Tango Argentynskie Tanzphilosophie
Argentinische Tango ist ein inneres Gefühl. Um in einem Tanz in Verbindung zu stehen, muß das Gefühl nach innen erforscht werden und erfahren werden. Der Tanz geschieht zwischen Leuten in einer vertrauten Teilhaberschaft. Er hat eine vertraute Qualität, es ist fast, als wenn Ihr Tanzpartner ein Teil von Ihnen ist. Diese Nähe im Paartanz ist revolutionär. Der Mann und die Frau tanzen nahe zusammen und verursachen einen direkten, ohne Worte Dialog. Tun, was sie wünschen. Für dieses wird Kreativität und Empfindlichkeit von den Tänzern gewünscht. Er ist über das Ausdrücken von von Gefühlen und von von Fähigkeit, Aufmerksamkeit in einer gewählten Richtung zu verweisen. Für das Verursachen einer koordinierten Darstellung, wird ein interner Antrieb abgefragt. Diese Kommunikation bildet den argentinischen tango Tanz eine neue Lagebestimmung in der Weise, die Paare zusammen tanzen.
En español:
Nada hay tan íntimo y público a la vez… como bailar. El tango, como toda manifestación popular, nace espontáneamente en Argentina, resultado de la necesidad de expresión del pueblo, a fines de la década de 1870. Es el lenguaje del cuerpo que permite al alma expresar sus sentimientos, pasión y fuerza que crea y se recrea en la belleza y la dinámica del movimiento. Fuertes emociones, en particular, que llevan a los órganos a un punto de exaltación que espontáneamente se manifiesta a si mismo a través de movimientos más o menos rítmicos que constituyen lo que se podría considerar como danzas naturales. Las expresiones espontaneas, como tambien el arte de bailar, pueden ser descritos como una expresión de los sentimientos por medio de los movimientos del cuerpo mas o menos controlados por el propio sentido rítmico. El baile, como arte era utilizado para varios propósitos. El arte existe en todos lados de la ciudad y en formas infinitas.
El Tango es un sentimiento interior. Para comunicar en una danza, el sentimiento debe explorarse y probarse dentro. La danza se produce entre las personas en una asociación íntima. Tiene una calidad íntima, casi está como si su asociado de danza es una parte ustedes. Esta intimidad en la danza de pares es revolucionaria. El hombre y la mujer bailan estrechamente juntos y crean un diálogo directo y no verbal. Haciendo lo que quieren. Para esto, la creatividad y la sensibilidad se quieren de los bailarines. Está con respecto a expresar emociones y la capacidad de dirigir la atención en una dirección elegida. Para crear una representación coordinada, se siente un impulso interno. Esta comunicación hace a la danza de tango una nueva orientación de la manera que los pares bailan juntos.
La sensualidad del tango, la conexión corporal, puede ser muy pesada, apasionada, y seria. En el tango no existía la regularidad de las viejas danzas como el vals o la polca y por eso fue necesario creer una técnica en la cual la pareja podía realizar una figura en el momento sin anticipación. El lugar donde se desarrolló más el tango al principio del sigo XX fue dentro de las burdeles donde los hombres bailaban en una forma mucho más sensual que permitirían las estrictas reglas sociales de la sociedad respetuosa. La mujer tenía que seguir siempre el hombre paso por paso moviéndose con sus caprichos y así se fue formando la estructura de la danza que se sigue bailando hoy en día. En un baile tan íntimo, no se puede bailar con cualquier hombre. Así que la mirada tiene un papel muy importante en la cultura del tango. La mirada en el baile es intima pero liviana. La mirada también existe en relación al publico, que está siempre presente en los milongas. El tango es como un espejo, en su capacidad de reflejar todo el desarrollo de una identidad social y relaciones sociales.
Las transformaciones en el espíritu del tango
La pregunta que se impone, es: ¿ por qué el tango, música del instinto sexual y de la algarabía prostibularia se convierte en tan pocos años en un discurso que afirma valores morales tan opuestos a los que le dieron origen? ¿Por qué el placer se transmuta en condena y el regocijo en melancolía ?
Entre 1900 y 1910 ese incipiente tango que se expresaba en prostíbulos y arrabales de las afueras de la ciudad, empezó lentamente a ganar terreno en los cabarets y pequeños teatros de Buenos Aires. De sus origines el tango fue una expresión cultural degenerado muy particular a la situación social Argentina, pero cuando el tango fue aprobado al exterior se convirtió de repente en una imagen de la identidad nacional. Igualmente, se concretan ciertos símbolos sociales que pasarán a formar parte del folklore ciudadano. Para los élites Argentinos el tango todavía pertenecía a otro sector de la sociedad, y implicaba una identidad ajena de los inmigrantes, los guapos, las prostitutas y todo un mundo nocturnal y peligroso de la calle. La música es otra forma de arte que es muy importante en la cultura argentina. Muchos argentinos hablan de ella con tanta pasión y orgullo. La historia del tango entra así en un contexto más amplio de historia de gente exiliada y ilegítima en búsqueda de una identidad propia, reconocimiento y dignidad.
El tango, apadrinado por los grupos sociales que el centro no admitía: inmigrantes, veteranos del ejército, ex-esclavos, todos proletarios en busca de una nueva vida que superara el perfil miserable y promíscuo de su marginación. El Lunfardo, una lengua que muchos asimilan a gente de mala vida, empleada para que resultara incomprensible a las autoridades. En ese "idioma" popular ya por entonces característico de los bajos fondos, predominan los términos de diversos dialectos italianos, con algo de café gitano español y el argot francés. El tango lo elegirá posteriormente como su lengua predilecta, ya ampliamente divulgada por el teatro y el intercambio personal que se hacía en los numerosos sitios bailables, y otros lugares no muy santos, entre "niños bien" del centro y "compadritos" orilleros. Así, el tango pasa a los cafés y bares del centro, donde el contacto entre las diferentes clases sociales resulta ya cosa normal y corriente. Es en los salones donde comienza una nueva etapa para la música ciudadana, sea como música como para danza. Cuando el tango "se hace decente", sin cortes ni quebradas, para alegrar fiestas de familia, viviendo un notable auge que arranca a principios de la década del '30 y eclosiona con una popularidad sin igual entre 1940 y 1960. Cuando se extiende a toda la ciudad y se convierte en la música de Buenos Aires, cuando proliferan compositores y poetas, es el mismo tango el que dice de sí mismo ser un veneno que fascina, capaz de llevar a las almas más nobles por el camino del mal. Hoy, merced a la llegada de oleadas de turistas extranjeros que hacen florecer la economía e incentivan la inversión en locales de entretenimientos y academias de baile, el tango está viviendo un renacer que algunos años atrás nadie hubiera imaginado.
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Word Reference: Music - The art of arranging
sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition,
as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. - The science and the
art of tones, or musical sounds, i.e, sounds of higher or lower pitch,
begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various
degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the
principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of
tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please
the ear. Not all sounds are tones. Sounds may be unmusical and yet please
the ear. Music deals with tones, and with no other sounds. Melody; a rhythmical
and otherwise agreeable succession of tones. Harmony; an accordant combination
of simultaneous tones. The written and printed notation of a musical composition;
the score. Dance: To move with measured steps,
or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or
in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements,
(commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhytmically.
- Origin: F. Danser, fr. OHG. Dansn to draw; akin to
dinsan to draw, the act of drawing spatially closer to the
spirit of music.
The word "to draw" illustrates more aspects of the nonphysical or symbolic interaction. Drawing power: the capacity for attracting people. Being drawn to something or to each other, relates to a metaphysical reality: being drawn out of ourselves toward the other, goes beyond what is perceptible to the senses, beyond the physical act of comming closer... the physical gets a nonphysical - symbolic content. Men are being drawn into teasing younger women. Men and women are being increasingly drawn to younger skin elasticity. People are being drawn up to shape their appearance, sexual orientation has been drawn into political debate. Attention is being drawn to women's empowerment and gender equality.
Counterpoint focuses on melodic interaction rather than harmonic effects generated when melodic strands sound together. It was elaborated extensively in the Renaissance period, but composers of the Baroque period brought counterpoint to a kind of culmination, and it may be said that, harmony then took over as the predominant organising principle in musical composition. The late Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote most of his music incorporating counterpoint. The form or compositional genre known as fugue is perhaps the most complex contrapuntal convention. A fugue is a type of piece written for counterpoint for several independent musical voices. A fugue begins with its subject (a brief musical theme) stated by one of the voices playing alone in the tonic key. The tonic is the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically centered. A second voice then enters and plays the subject, while the first voice continues on with a contrapuntal accompaniment. The second voice "answers" it with the same theme as the subject, but played in the dominant.
Compound meter: ritmo compuesto (Spanish), tempo composto (Italian), zusammengesetzter Takt (German), Zusammengesetzte Taktart (German), mesure composée (French). Compound time signatures show the number of notes in every bar (or measure) rather than the number of beats.
More General Vocabulary / Vocabulario:
musical - acoustical - acoustics - Amusement - entertainment, rhythm, measure, rhyme, accompaniment arrangement
comedy composition drama genre
Spanish : background music nf música de fondo
ballet music nm ballet
café with live music café de música en vivo
chamber music nf música de cámara
choral music música de coro
dance music nf música de baile
dance music nf música dance
disco music n música disco
ear for music (Music) nm oído (Música)
electronic music nf música electrónica
gospel music nf música gospel
incidental music (Music) nf música incidental (música)
incidental music (Music) nf música de escena (música)
instrumental music nf música instrumental
liturgical music nf música litúrgica
make music hacer música
military music nf música militar
music director nm director de música
music fan nm aficionado a la música
music festival nm festival de música
music hall nm teatro
music lover nmf amante de la música
music notation nf escritura musical
music paper nm pentagrama
music performance interpretación de la música
music piece nf pieza musical
music program (US) nm programa musical
music room nm salón de música
music school nf escuela de música
music score nf obra de música
music style nm estilo musical
music theme nf tema musical
music theory nf teoría de la música
perform music v tocar música
polyphonic music nf música polifónica
pop music nf música pop
popular music nf música popular
sacred music nf música sacra
symphonic music nf música sinfónica
vocal music música vocal
written music nf música escrita
baile - bailar, dançar dança
French : danse dance = noun-feminine
dansent danser dansez dansons
a music you can dance to nf musique dansante
academy of music académie de musique
art music musique artisanale
background music musique d'ambiance
ballet music musique de ballet
café with live music nm beuglant (lieu)
chamber music musique de chambre
classical music musique classique
college of music école de musique
concert music musique de concert
concert of classical music concert d'orchestre
country music musique country
country music nf country (musique) anglicisme
dance music musique de danse
disco music nm disco group musical dancegroup
ear for music oreille musicale
electronic music musique électronique
ensemble music musique d'ensemble
gospel music nf musique religieuse
house music nf house music
incidental music fond musical, musique de film
instrumental music musique instrumentale
light music musique légère
liturgical music musique liturgique
make music v faire de la musique
middle-of-the-road music musique grand public
military music musique militaire
mood music music d'ambiance
music box (US) boîte à musique
music centre nf chaîne (de musique)
music critic critique de musique
music director directeur musical
music division organisation
music drama œuvre dramatico-musicale
music fan fan de musique
music festival festival de musique
music hall nm cabaret
music hall nm music-hall
music hall nm théâtre de variétés
music lover amateur de musique
music lover nm mélomane
music notation notation musicale
music of the spheres musique des sphères
music paper papier à musique
music performance performance musicale
music piece morceau de musique
music program (US) émission musicale
music room nf salle de musique
music school école de musique
music score nf partition
music speech parole musicale
music stand pupitre à musique
music style nm style de musique
music style nm style musical
music theme nm thème musical
music theory nf théorie musicale
music-copying v copier de la musique
music-like adj musical
music-mad adj mélomane
music-making v faire de la musique
part music musique d'ensemble
perform music jouer de la musique
play music v jouer de la musique
polyphonic music musique polyphonique
pop music musique pop
popular music musique populaire
rock music musique rock
sacred music musique sacrée
set to music - mettre en musique
symphonic music musique symphonique
the music of the spheres la musique des sphères
the new music la nouvelle musique
tune music v accorder (instrument de musique)
vocal music musique vocale
word music la musique des mots
written music musique écrite
Italian: academy of music nm conservatorio
art music musica artistica
background music musica di sottofondo
ballet music musica da balletto
chamber music musica da camera
choral music musica da coro
church music musica da chiesa
classical music musica classica
college of music scuola di musica
concert music nm concerto
country music musica country
country-and-western music musica country
dance music musica dance
ear for music avere orecchio
electronic music musica elettronica
ensemble music ensemble, esecuzione d'insieme
ethnic music musica etnica
face the music (face the consequences) affrontare le conseguenze
v affrontare coraggiosamente una situazione difficile
folk music musica popolare
folk-music festival festival di musica popolare
incidental music musica di sottofondo
incidental music musica di accompagnamento
instrumental music musica strumentale
light music musica leggera
liturgical music musica liturgica
make music v suonare (fare musica)
military music musica militare
minister of music direttore del coro
mood music mood music
music box carillon
music centre impianto stereo
music centre nm stereo (impianto)
music critic critico musicale
music director direttore musicale
music division divisione musicale
music drama dramma musicale
music drama melodramma
music fan fan (fan musicale, seguace)
music festival festival musicale
music form forma musicale
music hall sala per concerti
music hall teatro di varietà
music lover amante della musica
music maker nm compositore
music notation notazione musicale
music of the spheres musica celestiale
music paper spartito
music paper carta da musica
music performance esecuzione (performance musicale)
music piece pezzo musicale
music program (US) programma musicale
music room stanza musicale
music school scuola di musica
music style stile musicale
music theme tema musicale
music theory teoria musicale
music-loving amante della musica
music-mad matto per la musica
music-making nm compositore
play music suonare la musica
polyphonic music musica polifonica
pop music musica pop
popular music musica popolare
program music programma musicale
rock music musica rock
sacred music musica sacra
set to music mettere in musica
sheet music spartito (mus)
the music of the spheres la musica delle sfere
the new music nuova musica
to have an ear for music (idiom.) nf avere orecchio per
vocal music nf musica vocale
written music nf musica scritta
German: to add music to mit Musik unterlegen
to face the music die Suppe auslöffeln
to make music musizieren
to make music Musik machen
to set to music vertonen
to set sth. to music etw. vertonen
to tap one's foot to the music mit dem Fuß den Takt schlagen
academies of music die Konservatorien
academy of music [mus.] das Konservatorium
background music die Begleitmusik
background music die Hintergrundmusik
background music musikalische Untermalung
beat-music der Schlager
book of music das Notenbuch
book of music das Notenheft
canned music die Konservenmusik
chamber music die Kammermusik
church music die Kirchenmusik
classical music die Klassik
classical music klassische Musik
dance music die Tanzmusik
family music die Hausmusik
folk music die Volksmusik
folk music volkstümliche Musik
incidental music die Bühnenmusik
instrumental music die Instrumentalmusik
light music die Unterhaltungsmusik
lover of music der Musikfreund | die Musikfreundin
military music [mil.] [mus.] die Militärmusik
mood music die Stimmungsmusik
music critic der Musikkritiker
music engraving der Notenstich
music festival die Musiktage Pl.
music for strings die Streichmusik
music lesson der Musikunterricht
music library die Musikbibliothek
music lover der Musikliebhaber die Musikliebhaberin
music-lover der Musikliebhaber
music notebook das Notenheft
music paper das Notenpapier
music publisher der Musikverlag
music rest das Notenpult
music school die Musikschule
music shop [mus.] [comm.] die Musikalienhandlung
music shop das Musikgeschäft
music stand das Notenpult
music stand der Notenständer
music stand das Pult
music store die Musikalienhandlung
music supplies die Musikalien Pl.
music teacher der Musiklehrer
music theory die Musiktheorie
music wire der Stahldraht
operatic music die Opernmusik
piece of music das Musikstück
pop music die Schlagermusik
recorded music die Schallplattenmusik
sacred music die Kirchenmusik
serious music ernste Musik
setting to music vertonend
sheet music Musik auf Notenblättern
sheet music die Noten
sheet music die Notenblätter
sheet of music das Notenblatt
sweet music liebliche Musik
theme music die Titelmusik
theory of music die Musiktheorie
vocal music die Vokalmusik
evening of music and entertainment bunter Abend
music for brass instruments die Blasmusik
music-hall song das Couplet
music-making in the home die Hausmusik
music printing paper das Notendruckpapier
palm court music die Kaffeehausmusik
pop music programAE die Schlagersendung
pop music programmeBE die Schlagersendung
record of dance music die Tanzplatte
twelve tone music die Zwölftonmusik
twelve-tone music die Zwölftonmusik
broadcast for public-address die Fahrgastraumbeschallung
academy of music - musicar
Nederlands - conservatorium
make music musiceren, muziek maken
music-book muziekboek music-box muziekdoos
music-lesson muziekles music-lover muziekliefhebber
bal, danspartij dans dansen
piece of music stuk, muziekstuk
school of music muziekschool
theory of music muziekleer
Staptechniek, staptechnieken, lichaamsbalans, basisstap,
stap, technieken, balans, bewegen, muzikalitit, muzikant, ritmiek,
aandacht, technisch, tempowisseling, cadans, cadanz, danspassen.
det lät som musik i mina öron - sensuell [sensu'el:] sinnligt sinnliga
sensuellt sensuella sinnlig, vällustig - sensuell man sensual man - carnal, physical
musik - musiken - arrangerade melodiskt, rytmiskt - harmoniskt
Tanz - dances – dancer – danced – to dance tanzen
barn dance der Bauerntanz
barn-dance der Ländler
barn dance Tanzveranstaltung mit ländlicher Musik
basse dance der Tieftanz
belly dance der Bauchtanz
dance arborAE Naturpavillon für Tanzveranstaltungen
dance arbourBE Naturpavillon für Tanzveranstaltungen
danceband die Tanzkapelle Orkester
dance floor das Parkett
dance floor die Tanzfläche
dance floor der Tanzplatz
dance hall der Tanzboden
dance hall die Tanzdiele
dance hall das Tanzlokal
dance music die Tanzmusik
dance orchestra das Tanzorchester
dance rhythm der Tanzrhythmus
death dance der Totentanz
exhibition dance der Schautanz
folk dance der Volkstanz
free dance der Ausdruckstanz
grotesque dance der Grotesktanz
lap dance erotischer Tanz in unmittelbarer Nähe eines Kunden
lap dance Striptease über dem Schoß des Zuschauers
last dance der Kehraus
last dance der Rausschmeißer
leaping dance der Springtanz
line dance der Linientanz
longways dance der Fronttanz
popular dance der Modetanz
round dance der Kreistanz
round dance der Reigen
square dance der Squaredance
square dance der Volkstanz
sword-dance der Schwertertanz
tap dance [mus.] der Step
tap-dance der Stepptanz
toe-dance der Spitzentanz
waggle dance [biol.] der Schwänzeltanz - Bienen
war dance der Kriegstanz
competition ballroom dance [sport.] der Turniertanz
record of dance music die Tanzplatte - pair das Paar
senses pl. die Gefühle die Sinne
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The word "to draw" illustrates more aspects of the nonphysical or symbolic interaction. Drawing power: the capacity for attracting people. Being drawn to something or to each other, relates to a metaphysical reality: being drawn out of ourselves toward the other, goes beyond what is perceptible to the senses, beyond the physical act of comming closer... the physical gets a nonphysical - symbolic content. Men are being drawn into teasing younger women. Men and women are being increasingly drawn to younger skin elasticity. People are being drawn up to shape their appearance, sexual orientation has been drawn into political debate. Attention is being drawn to women's empowerment and gender equality.
Counterpoint focuses on melodic interaction rather than harmonic effects generated when melodic strands sound together. It was elaborated extensively in the Renaissance period, but composers of the Baroque period brought counterpoint to a kind of culmination, and it may be said that, harmony then took over as the predominant organising principle in musical composition. The late Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote most of his music incorporating counterpoint. The form or compositional genre known as fugue is perhaps the most complex contrapuntal convention. A fugue is a type of piece written for counterpoint for several independent musical voices. A fugue begins with its subject (a brief musical theme) stated by one of the voices playing alone in the tonic key. The tonic is the pitch upon which all other pitches of a piece are hierarchically centered. A second voice then enters and plays the subject, while the first voice continues on with a contrapuntal accompaniment. The second voice "answers" it with the same theme as the subject, but played in the dominant.
Compound meter: ritmo compuesto (Spanish), tempo composto (Italian), zusammengesetzter Takt (German), Zusammengesetzte Taktart (German), mesure composée (French). Compound time signatures show the number of notes in every bar (or measure) rather than the number of beats.
More General Vocabulary / Vocabulario:
musical - acoustical - acoustics - Amusement - entertainment, rhythm, measure, rhyme, accompaniment arrangement
comedy composition drama genre
Spanish : background music nf música de fondo
ballet music nm ballet
café with live music café de música en vivo
chamber music nf música de cámara
choral music música de coro
dance music nf música de baile
dance music nf música dance
disco music n música disco
ear for music (Music) nm oído (Música)
electronic music nf música electrónica
gospel music nf música gospel
incidental music (Music) nf música incidental (música)
incidental music (Music) nf música de escena (música)
instrumental music nf música instrumental
liturgical music nf música litúrgica
make music hacer música
military music nf música militar
music director nm director de música
music fan nm aficionado a la música
music festival nm festival de música
music hall nm teatro
music lover nmf amante de la música
music notation nf escritura musical
music paper nm pentagrama
music performance interpretación de la música
music piece nf pieza musical
music program (US) nm programa musical
music room nm salón de música
music school nf escuela de música
music score nf obra de música
music style nm estilo musical
music theme nf tema musical
music theory nf teoría de la música
perform music v tocar música
polyphonic music nf música polifónica
pop music nf música pop
popular music nf música popular
sacred music nf música sacra
symphonic music nf música sinfónica
vocal music música vocal
written music nf música escrita
baile - bailar, dançar dança
French : danse dance = noun-feminine
dansent danser dansez dansons
a music you can dance to nf musique dansante
academy of music académie de musique
art music musique artisanale
background music musique d'ambiance
ballet music musique de ballet
café with live music nm beuglant (lieu)
chamber music musique de chambre
classical music musique classique
college of music école de musique
concert music musique de concert
concert of classical music concert d'orchestre
country music musique country
country music nf country (musique) anglicisme
dance music musique de danse
disco music nm disco group musical dancegroup
ear for music oreille musicale
electronic music musique électronique
ensemble music musique d'ensemble
gospel music nf musique religieuse
house music nf house music
incidental music fond musical, musique de film
instrumental music musique instrumentale
light music musique légère
liturgical music musique liturgique
make music v faire de la musique
middle-of-the-road music musique grand public
military music musique militaire
mood music music d'ambiance
music box (US) boîte à musique
music centre nf chaîne (de musique)
music critic critique de musique
music director directeur musical
music division organisation
music drama œuvre dramatico-musicale
music fan fan de musique
music festival festival de musique
music hall nm cabaret
music hall nm music-hall
music hall nm théâtre de variétés
music lover amateur de musique
music lover nm mélomane
music notation notation musicale
music of the spheres musique des sphères
music paper papier à musique
music performance performance musicale
music piece morceau de musique
music program (US) émission musicale
music room nf salle de musique
music school école de musique
music score nf partition
music speech parole musicale
music stand pupitre à musique
music style nm style de musique
music style nm style musical
music theme nm thème musical
music theory nf théorie musicale
music-copying v copier de la musique
music-like adj musical
music-mad adj mélomane
music-making v faire de la musique
part music musique d'ensemble
perform music jouer de la musique
play music v jouer de la musique
polyphonic music musique polyphonique
pop music musique pop
popular music musique populaire
rock music musique rock
sacred music musique sacrée
set to music - mettre en musique
symphonic music musique symphonique
the music of the spheres la musique des sphères
the new music la nouvelle musique
tune music v accorder (instrument de musique)
vocal music musique vocale
word music la musique des mots
written music musique écrite
Italian: academy of music nm conservatorio
art music musica artistica
background music musica di sottofondo
ballet music musica da balletto
chamber music musica da camera
choral music musica da coro
church music musica da chiesa
classical music musica classica
college of music scuola di musica
concert music nm concerto
country music musica country
country-and-western music musica country
dance music musica dance
ear for music avere orecchio
electronic music musica elettronica
ensemble music ensemble, esecuzione d'insieme
ethnic music musica etnica
face the music (face the consequences) affrontare le conseguenze
v affrontare coraggiosamente una situazione difficile
folk music musica popolare
folk-music festival festival di musica popolare
incidental music musica di sottofondo
incidental music musica di accompagnamento
instrumental music musica strumentale
light music musica leggera
liturgical music musica liturgica
make music v suonare (fare musica)
military music musica militare
minister of music direttore del coro
mood music mood music
music box carillon
music centre impianto stereo
music centre nm stereo (impianto)
music critic critico musicale
music director direttore musicale
music division divisione musicale
music drama dramma musicale
music drama melodramma
music fan fan (fan musicale, seguace)
music festival festival musicale
music form forma musicale
music hall sala per concerti
music hall teatro di varietà
music lover amante della musica
music maker nm compositore
music notation notazione musicale
music of the spheres musica celestiale
music paper spartito
music paper carta da musica
music performance esecuzione (performance musicale)
music piece pezzo musicale
music program (US) programma musicale
music room stanza musicale
music school scuola di musica
music style stile musicale
music theme tema musicale
music theory teoria musicale
music-loving amante della musica
music-mad matto per la musica
music-making nm compositore
play music suonare la musica
polyphonic music musica polifonica
pop music musica pop
popular music musica popolare
program music programma musicale
rock music musica rock
sacred music musica sacra
set to music mettere in musica
sheet music spartito (mus)
the music of the spheres la musica delle sfere
the new music nuova musica
to have an ear for music (idiom.) nf avere orecchio per
vocal music nf musica vocale
written music nf musica scritta
German: to add music to mit Musik unterlegen
to face the music die Suppe auslöffeln
to make music musizieren
to make music Musik machen
to set to music vertonen
to set sth. to music etw. vertonen
to tap one's foot to the music mit dem Fuß den Takt schlagen
academies of music die Konservatorien
academy of music [mus.] das Konservatorium
background music die Begleitmusik
background music die Hintergrundmusik
background music musikalische Untermalung
beat-music der Schlager
book of music das Notenbuch
book of music das Notenheft
canned music die Konservenmusik
chamber music die Kammermusik
church music die Kirchenmusik
classical music die Klassik
classical music klassische Musik
dance music die Tanzmusik
family music die Hausmusik
folk music die Volksmusik
folk music volkstümliche Musik
incidental music die Bühnenmusik
instrumental music die Instrumentalmusik
light music die Unterhaltungsmusik
lover of music der Musikfreund | die Musikfreundin
military music [mil.] [mus.] die Militärmusik
mood music die Stimmungsmusik
music critic der Musikkritiker
music engraving der Notenstich
music festival die Musiktage Pl.
music for strings die Streichmusik
music lesson der Musikunterricht
music library die Musikbibliothek
music lover der Musikliebhaber die Musikliebhaberin
music-lover der Musikliebhaber
music notebook das Notenheft
music paper das Notenpapier
music publisher der Musikverlag
music rest das Notenpult
music school die Musikschule
music shop [mus.] [comm.] die Musikalienhandlung
music shop das Musikgeschäft
music stand das Notenpult
music stand der Notenständer
music stand das Pult
music store die Musikalienhandlung
music supplies die Musikalien Pl.
music teacher der Musiklehrer
music theory die Musiktheorie
music wire der Stahldraht
operatic music die Opernmusik
piece of music das Musikstück
pop music die Schlagermusik
recorded music die Schallplattenmusik
sacred music die Kirchenmusik
serious music ernste Musik
setting to music vertonend
sheet music Musik auf Notenblättern
sheet music die Noten
sheet music die Notenblätter
sheet of music das Notenblatt
sweet music liebliche Musik
theme music die Titelmusik
theory of music die Musiktheorie
vocal music die Vokalmusik
evening of music and entertainment bunter Abend
music for brass instruments die Blasmusik
music-hall song das Couplet
music-making in the home die Hausmusik
music printing paper das Notendruckpapier
palm court music die Kaffeehausmusik
pop music programAE die Schlagersendung
pop music programmeBE die Schlagersendung
record of dance music die Tanzplatte
twelve tone music die Zwölftonmusik
twelve-tone music die Zwölftonmusik
broadcast for public-address die Fahrgastraumbeschallung
academy of music - musicar
Nederlands - conservatorium
make music musiceren, muziek maken
music-book muziekboek music-box muziekdoos
music-lesson muziekles music-lover muziekliefhebber
bal, danspartij dans dansen
piece of music stuk, muziekstuk
school of music muziekschool
theory of music muziekleer
Staptechniek, staptechnieken, lichaamsbalans, basisstap,
stap, technieken, balans, bewegen, muzikalitit, muzikant, ritmiek,
aandacht, technisch, tempowisseling, cadans, cadanz, danspassen.
det lät som musik i mina öron - sensuell [sensu'el:] sinnligt sinnliga
sensuellt sensuella sinnlig, vällustig - sensuell man sensual man - carnal, physical
musik - musiken - arrangerade melodiskt, rytmiskt - harmoniskt
Tanz - dances – dancer – danced – to dance tanzen
barn dance der Bauerntanz
barn-dance der Ländler
barn dance Tanzveranstaltung mit ländlicher Musik
basse dance der Tieftanz
belly dance der Bauchtanz
dance arborAE Naturpavillon für Tanzveranstaltungen
dance arbourBE Naturpavillon für Tanzveranstaltungen
danceband die Tanzkapelle Orkester
dance floor das Parkett
dance floor die Tanzfläche
dance floor der Tanzplatz
dance hall der Tanzboden
dance hall die Tanzdiele
dance hall das Tanzlokal
dance music die Tanzmusik
dance orchestra das Tanzorchester
dance rhythm der Tanzrhythmus
death dance der Totentanz
exhibition dance der Schautanz
folk dance der Volkstanz
free dance der Ausdruckstanz
grotesque dance der Grotesktanz
lap dance erotischer Tanz in unmittelbarer Nähe eines Kunden
lap dance Striptease über dem Schoß des Zuschauers
last dance der Kehraus
last dance der Rausschmeißer
leaping dance der Springtanz
line dance der Linientanz
longways dance der Fronttanz
popular dance der Modetanz
round dance der Kreistanz
round dance der Reigen
square dance der Squaredance
square dance der Volkstanz
sword-dance der Schwertertanz
tap dance [mus.] der Step
tap-dance der Stepptanz
toe-dance der Spitzentanz
waggle dance [biol.] der Schwänzeltanz - Bienen
war dance der Kriegstanz
competition ballroom dance [sport.] der Turniertanz
record of dance music die Tanzplatte - pair das Paar
senses pl. die Gefühle die Sinne
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