> You cannot make a general pronunciation. There is no such thing as > "Piazolla's music" that is a monolithical slab of black onyx 1:4:9; > it's a collection that encompasses many different styles of music.
Yes, yes. Of course you are right, Alexei. My earlier statement was a huge generalization. I'm not sure I can make a generalization, but let me try again. The Piazzolla music that was thought of as avant- garde, which was written for listening and not for dancing, and which was called "tango nuevo", seems to me, for the most part, to be difficult for most people to dance to in ordinary social dance settings. Because much of Piazzolla's works for quintet are musically very interesting, and beautiful, and because the sheet music is published and readily available in parts for each instrument, I often hear tango ensembles playing these pieces at milongas. I just think that it is bad judgment. Someone commented to me privately that part of the problem is that most dancers are not very good, and have trouble with anything that doesn't have a metronomic beat. A friend of mine once asked me, on this same topic, if I didn't think that tango dancers needed to evolve their dance forms to adapt to newer music, rather than have the newer music adapt to the old dance forms. These are worthwile points to consider. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
