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Encyclopedia > Nuevo tango

Nuevo tango or Tango nuevo is a form of music, which was born as elements of jazz and classical music were incorporated into traditional Argentinian tango. The most important composer of this style is Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionized tango by introducing new instruments (e.g. Saxophone, electric guitar) and new forms of harmonic and melodic structures into the traditional tango ensemble. Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition. ... Argentina is a Spanish-speaking country in southern South America, situated between the Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... Astor Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) is widely considered the most important tango composer of the latter Twentieth Century. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ... In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency. ... Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ...


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el NUEVO TANGO: P1 (0 words)
The truth is I was ashamed to tell her that I was a tango musician, that I had worked in the whorehouses and cabarets of Buenos Aires.
Tango musician was a dirty word in Argentina when I was young.
He was very conscious of the tango's lineage, and went to great efforts to preserve the essence of the tango.
The Guide: Nuevo Tango in BA (418 words)
If you talk to these dancers, some will say they are dancing “tango nuevo”; others will say that they are simply dancing tango.
Since these kinds of movement and exploration are often called nuevo tango, we have adopted that terminology for this guide.
In Buenos Aires, nuevo tango is generally danced in practicas, as opposed to milongas (although there are a couple of milongas aimed at the nuevo tango dancers).
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