Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-10 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
  --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Myk Dowling poli...@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,

Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-10 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Myk Dowling poli...@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

Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-10 Thread 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

Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-10 Thread Myk Dowling
On 11/06/10 08:16, Trini y Sean (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