--- On Sat, 1/8/09, Keith Elshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Keith Elshaw <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Tango-L] What Do You Think?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, 1 August, 2009, 6:42 PM
>
> Jack wrote:
>
> "After all, Milonga only became part of the 'Tango Trinity'
> in the 1930s."
>
> Uh - no.
>
> Milonga pre-dated tango.
The milonga we dance nowadays [2 beats to the bar, fastish ,as in Milonga
sentimental] only goes back to the 30's. The pre-dating one was a slow dirge
played by the payadores towards the end on the 19th Century and hardly ever
danced to. Piazzolla revived it in the 50's as "Milonga Campera": "Oblivion",
"Milonga del angel" &c....True. the milonga campera eventually became more
lively & turned into tango - that could be danced.
Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAÑSKI,
23b All Saints Road,
London, W11 1HE,
07944 128 739.
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