Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-11 Thread John Lowry
However, the wording of your original post implies that the rhythmic pattern does not necessarily have to adhere to a pattern that we would recognize as tango. Trini de Pittsburgh I'm not criticising Joaquin; he is making a truly heroic effort to define something that is very nebulous. Myk,

Re: [Tango-L] Recognizing Tango Music

2010-06-11 Thread Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Myk Dowling poli...@gmail.com wrote: A rhythm is a pattern of strong and weak beats overlaying the basic time signature. And that's the difference between tango and other dance music. Other dance music has a specific rhythm that must be followed for the dance to

[Tango-L] recognizing tango

2010-06-11 Thread Charles Roques
Following the thread for the last couple of days, I would offer that tango does indeed have a very steady and consistent rhythm, like all or most music, and no more or less variable than any other. Dancing to the melody of it, or any other music, seems to be more of an advanced stage that one

Re: [Tango-L] Death of tango?

2010-06-11 Thread Shahrukh Merchant
macfro...@aol.com wrote: I've lived here in BsAs for 7 years and the milongas I go to are just as packed with locals as ever I do see lower attendance this month, both from tourists (it's off-season for the tourists, is the explanation), but also from locals, at the two regular milongas I