--- 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, 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.

Trini de Pittsburgh


      

_______________________________________________
Tango-L mailing list
Tango-L@mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l

Reply via email to