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Instrumental Tango Idioms in the Symphonic Works and Orchestral Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla
The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 5-2008 Instrumental Tango Idioms in the Symphonic Works and Orchestral Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla. Performance and Notational Problems: A Conductor's Perspective Alejandro Marcelo Drago University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Composition Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Musicology Commons, and the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Drago, Alejandro Marcelo, "Instrumental Tango Idioms in the Symphonic Works and Orchestral Arrangements of Astor Piazzolla. Performance and Notational Problems: A Conductor's Perspective" (2008). Dissertations. 1107. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1107 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi INSTRUMENTAL TANGO IDIOMS IN THE SYMPHONIC WORKS AND ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS OF ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. PERFORMANCE AND NOTATIONAL PROBLEMS: A CONDUCTOR'S PERSPECTIVE by Alejandro Marcelo Drago A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Approved: May 2008 COPYRIGHT BY ALEJANDRO MARCELO DRAGO 2008 The University of Southern Mississippi INSTRUMENTAL TANGO IDIOMS IN THE SYMPHONIC WORKS AND ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS OF ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. PERFORMANCE AND NOTATIONAL PROBLEMS: A CONDUCTOR'S PERSPECTIVE by Alejandro Marcelo Drago Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Studies Office of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts May 2008 ABSTRACT INSTRUMENTAL TANGO IDIOMS IN THE SYMPHONIC WORKS AND ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS OF ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. -
Milva Live at the "Bouffes Du Nord" Mp3, Flac, Wma
Milva Live At The "Bouffes Du Nord" mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Latin / Pop / Folk, World, & Country Album: Live At The "Bouffes Du Nord" Country: Germany Released: 1984 Style: Tango, Vocal MP3 version RAR size: 1722 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1618 mb WMA version RAR size: 1763 mb Rating: 4.5 Votes: 877 Other Formats: ASF MOD VOC MPC DTS XM MP2 Tracklist Hide Credits Morire En Buenos Aires 1 4:53 Written-By – Angela Tarenzi, Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer Los Pajaros Perdidos 2 4:06 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Michele Trejo De Carissimo 3 2:50 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla Années De Solitude 4 3:47 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Maxime Le Forestier Balada Para Un Loco 5 5:49 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer Vamos Nina 6 4:27 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer J'Oublie 7 4:28 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, David McNeil Che Tango Che 8 3:49 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Jean-Claude Carrière Preludio Para El Año 3001 9 4:21 Written-By – Angela Tarenzi, Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer Finale "Entre Brecht Et Brel" 10 5:16 Written-By – Astor Piazzolla, Claude Lemesle Companies, etc. Recorded At – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris Manufactured By – Metronome Musik GmbH Distributed By – Metronome Musik GmbH Phonographic Copyright (p) – Metronome Musik GmbH Mixed At – Rüssl Studio Credits Artwork [Cover Design] – Michael Behr Bandoneon – Astor Piazzolla Bass – Hector Console Ensemble – Quintette De Tango Contemporain (tracks: 3) Guitar – O. Lopez Ruiz* Mixed By – Thomas Kuckuck* Piano – Pablo Ziegler Violin – F. Suarez Paz* Notes (P) 1984 METRONOME MUSIC GmbH Recorded live at the Theatre "Bouffes du Nord", Paris, September 29th., 1984 by "Le Voyageur" mobile studio. -
Astor Piazzolla This Is the Story of Travel, Travail and Triumph in the Life
Astor Piazzolla This is the story of travel, travail and triumph in the life of an Argentine musician, Astor Pantaléon Piazzolla. His travels were two-fold: across the continents and through many kinds of music. That he was able eventually to combine these musical strands into something new and distinctively his own was his triumph, but it was long-delayed and there were many travails along the way. Argentina’s spectacular 19th century boom had attracted millions of migrants, including Piazzolla’s Italian grandparents. By the time of Piazzolla’s birth in 1921, it was long over, but the rich ethnic mix it created had left a musical legacy. In the brothels of Buenos Aires, the music and dance of Spain, Cuba and Italy had fused with that of the gauchos and Afro- Argentine ex-slaves to create a new dance form, the tango. Its early manifestations were blatantly sexual and reeked too much of the bordello to be tolerated in polite society. But after some refinement in the salons of Paris it emerged in 1912 to sweep the world. Argentina especially went wild for the tango and its quintessential instrument, the bandoneón, an odd form of concertina with a characteristic tone. A public holiday, July 11, was declared Bandoneón Day, and tango cafés, dance halls and cabaret houses sprang up everywhere to cater for every social stratum. Astor’s father, Vincente, was an enthusiastic tanguero and dreamed that his son would become a bandoneonist. His dream came true but hardly in the way he imagined. It was with great reluctance that Vincente took his family away from this lively scene to search for prosperity in New York and it almost proved disastrous for his son. -
Escúchame, Alúmbrame. Apuntes Sobre El Canon De “La Música Joven”
ISSN Escúchame, alúmbrame. 0329-2142 Apuntes de Apuntes sobre el canon de “la investigación del CECYP música joven” argentina entre 2015. Año XVII. 1966 y 1973 Nº 25. pp. 11-25. Recibido: 20/03/2015. Aceptado: 5/05/2015. Sergio Pujol* Tema central: Rock I. No caben dudas de que estamos viviendo un tiempo de fuerte interroga- ción sobre el pasado de lo que alguna vez se llamó “la música joven ar- gentina”. Esa música ya no es joven si, apelando a la metáfora biológica y más allá de las edades de sus oyentes, la pensamos como género desarro- llado en el tiempo según etapas de crecimiento y maduración autónomas. Veámoslo de esta manera: entre el primer éxito de Los Gatos y el segundo CD de Acorazado Potemkin ha transcurrido la misma cantidad de años que la que separa la grabación de “Mi noche triste” por Carlos Gardel y el debut del quinteto de Astor Piazzolla. ¿Es mucho, no? En 2013 la revista Rolling Stone edición argentina dedicó un número es- pecial –no fue el primero– a los 100 mejores discos del rock nacional, en un arco que iba de 1967 a 2009. Entre los primeros 20 seleccionados, 9 fueron grabados antes de 1983, el año del regreso de la democracia. Esto revela que, en el imaginario de la cultura rock, el núcleo duro de su obra apuntes precede la época de mayor crecimiento comercial. Esto afirmaría la idea CECYP de una época heroica y proactiva, expurgada de intereses económicos e ideológicamente sostenida en el anticonformismo de la contracultura es- tadounidense adaptada al contexto argentino. -
Entrevista Antonio Agri Antonio Agri
Entrevista Antonio Agri Antonio Agri: Es muy difícil en Argentina, la Argentina es muy difícil. Entrevistadora: ¿Y por qué cambió? ¿Por Menem? ¿por todo el gobierno? ¿eso? Antonio Agri: No, no, nunca. Siempre, antes de Menem también, si con Piazzolla hemos sufrido horrores. Nosotros con Piazzolla no trabajábamos nada, nos mordíamos la liebre con Astor, una mentira total. Piazzolla por eso se tuvo que ir también. Entrevistadora: Porque acá no dan plata para la cultura. Antonio Agri: No, aparte es… cuando uno intenta hacer algo que es de cierta calidad no sirve, en este país no sirve. La mediocridad es muy grande, o sea, en Europa también existe la mediocridad. Pero el que vale tiene lugar. Acá el que vale no tiene ningún lugar por eso no hay nadie, o sea, hay gente que se merece estar en algún lugar y no tiene dónde trabajar. Entrevistadora: Por eso ya viajaron a Japón ¿no? Antonio Agri: Sí, fuimos y ya nos contactaron otra vez, pero vamos a lugares, digamos, como si fuera… Allá se sorprendieron todos “¿Pero cómo es un conjunto de cámara?” y va con la noticia, claro. Y tocamos los mismos areglos que se han tocado siempre. La música popular, sacando honrosas excepciones, la cuestión matices, no. Un director de sinfónica acá nos decía:“ No se olviden nunca que los músicos malos tocan fuerte. Solamente músicos buenos tocan bien.” Entrevistadora: Sí, sí. Antonio Agri: Es muy difícil, muy difícil. Bueno, usted dirá. Entrevistadora: Bueno. Yo tengo una pregunta quizás un poco grave, pero yo soy de ascendiente judía y escuché mucho la música klezmer ¿no? Y ahora escuchando el violín en el tango yo me pregunté o me pareció que el estilo o la especie de rubato, de llegar a la nota con glissando me hace recordar mucho la música que conozco allá del este. -
Quinteto Astor Piazzolla – Bio (Revised September 2020)
Quinteto Astor Piazzolla – Bio (revised September 2020) In 1960, bandoneonist and composer Astor Piazzolla looked for a new instrument to interpret his ideas and put together his first great quintet. It was an unusual group, especially for tango, as it featured bandoneon, violin, electric guitar, piano, and double bass. Part chamber group, part jazz band, but deeply rooted in the spirit and history of tango, the quintet offered Piazzolla a broad range of resources and possibilities that proved critical for his New Tango. A decade later, Piazzolla, always restless and attuned to the musical trends of the time, dissolved the quintet, experimented with other ensembles, and decided to settle for a time in Europe. But in 1978, back in Buenos Aires, he went back to the sound of the quintet, assembling a new group that would stay with him for the next decade. It was a superb group that performed his, by now, classics, and pushed him to create new masterpieces. Piazzolla's death, on July 4, 1992, marked a new stage for his work. From then on, others would have to continue his efforts and champion his music. With that purpose, Laura Escalada Piazzolla, his companion of nearly 20 years, created the Fundación Astor Piazzolla and, in 1998, founded the Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, a repertory group to perform and update the sound of his emblematic ensemble. Creating an ensemble to play Piazzolla is no easy task. Instrumental virtuosity is indispensable — but not enough. This music also demands street wisdom, boldness, and a certain quality that the maestro called "roña" (grime) — the perfection of the imperfect. -
TANGO… the Perfect Vehicle the Dialogues and Sociocultural Circumstances Informing the Emergence and Evolution of Tango Expressions in Paris Since the Late 1970S
TANGO… The Perfect Vehicle The dialogues and sociocultural circumstances informing the emergence and evolution of tango expressions in Paris since the late 1970s. Alberto Munarriz A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN MUSIC YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO March 2015 © Alberto Munarriz, 2015 i Abstract This dissertation examines the various dialogues that have shaped the evolution of contemporary tango variants in Paris since the late 1970s. I focus primarily on the work of a number of Argentine composers who went into political exile in the late 1970s and who continue to live abroad. Drawing on the ideas of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin (concepts of dialogic relationships and polyvocality), I explore the creative mechanisms that allowed these and other artists to engage with a multiplicity of seemingly irreconcilable idioms within the framing concept of tango in order to accommodate their own musical needs and inquietudes. In addition, based on fieldwork conducted in Basel, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Gerona, Paris, and Rotterdam, I examine the mechanism through which musicians (some experienced tango players with longstanding ties with the genre, others young performers who have only recently fully embraced tango) engage with these new forms in order to revisit, create or reconstruct a sense of personal or communal identity through their performances and compositions. I argue that these novel expressions are recognized as tango not because of their melodies, harmonies or rhythmic patterns, but because of the ways these features are “musicalized” by the performers. I also argue that it is due to both the musical heterogeneity that shaped early tango expressions in Argentina and the primacy of performance practices in shaping the genre’s sound that contemporary artists have been able to approach tango as a vehicle capable of accommodating the new musical identities resulting from their socially diverse and diasporic realities. -
Program Notes
March 7-8, 2020, page 1 programBY DR. RICHARD E. RODDA notes for Harpsi- his Rainbow Body won the First Prize of If Falling Is a Leaf £25,000 in the Masterprize Competition, chord and Strings (2019) a London-based, British-American part- World Premiere nership of EMI, the London Symphony Commissioned by the Allentown Sym- Orchestra, Gramophone magazine, phony Orchestra Classic FM and National Public Radio CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS ■ BORN IN whose winner is chosen jointly by the 1967 public and a panel of experts; Rainbow Christopher Theofanidis, one of Amer- Body has subsequently become one of ica’s most prominent composers, was the most frequently performed pieces by born in Dallas on December 18, 1967, a living composer. and studied at the University of Hous- Theofanidis wrote of If Falling Is a ton (B.M.), Eastman School of Music Leaf, commissioned by the Allentown (M.M.) and Yale University (M.A. and Symphony Orchestra, “The title of this D.M.A.). He has served on the faculty of work is from a poem that was written for the Yale University School of Music since this occasion by a friend of mine, called September 2008; his previous teach- If falling is a leaf. Like the Vivaldi Four ing appointments include the Peabody Seasons, it is inspired from a poem, but Institute in Baltimore, Juilliard School, the poem itself is also responding to a University of Houston, American Festi- David Hockney painting called Autumn val of the Arts and Texas Piano Institute. Leaves. I decided that a single season In summer 2014, he joined the faculties seemed to be in order for this composi- the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Cen- tion, and I love the vibrancy of fall — the ter for the Arts and HighSCORE Festival colors, the wind, the air.” in Italy. -