Was it Janis or Steven who wrote:
> There are two rhythms in milonga:
>
> 1) double rhythm -- two steps in two beats of music; and
> 2) triple rhythm (called traspie) -- three steps in two beats of music (like
> a triple step in swing).
I'm not a trained musician, except for piano lessons as a pre-teen, but the
three steps/notes in two beats sounds like what I remember being called a
"triplet" in musical notation. For the life of me I don't think I've ever heard
such a thing in tango, except rarely, and certainly not to an extent to justify
its being a description of a class of milonga songs. OTOH I have heard and seen
a lot of traspie done to double-time or half-beats or (incorrectly but
popularly called) synchopation. In this mode, you've got 4 notes/steps in two
beats.
I'd be interested in some examples of milongas that use triplets with three
steps/notes in two beats.
J
TangoMoments.com
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