On 28 Feb 2007 at 16:11, Christopher Smith wrote: > > Argentine tango music always ends on the dominant, which sounds > pretty open. Could that be an example? >
Let me clarify a little here. I've been living in Buenos Airess for 8 years now, playing bandoneon in different tango groups and i can tell you that the music always (at least what i've heard) ends on the tonic. But i can imagine where the idea of Tango ending on the dominant comes from. It's a convention to play the dominant forte or ff and the tonic piano or pp, and there are different styles where the final tonic is barely audible. You may have listened the Osvaldo Pugliese's Orchestra, they usually ended with the whole Orchestra playing the dominant ff or fff on the second beat of the last bar, then a silence on the third beat, and just on the fourth beat, the Piano and maybe some of the strings played the tonic. Regards Rafael Velasco _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
