Morgan Zaccardo Homework #3 The Rioplatense Tango The history and development of tango can be divided into three stages, the first stage being La Guardia vieja, or Old Guard, which lasted until 1920. During this time, tango had emerged as a genre of instrumental music. The form during this time consisted of three parts, with different sections (ABC). This form usually uses four instruments: flute, violin, guitar and bandoneon. The most famous tango ever written is from this time period, Gerardo
The word tango is most likely from African origin and referred to popular music and dance celebrations that the slaves performed throughout the Caribbean and Atlantic coastal regions. The genre overlapped with milonga, candombe and the Cuban habanera. During the 20th century, around the time that the urbanized samba emerged in Brazil, the tango emerged as an independent dance genre. The rioplatense tango arose in poverty stricken areas known as arrabeles in the outskirts of Buenos Aires and Montevido
around his own figure, a crowd begins to form, and soon there are more couples that join into this social dance. This is the scene for the beginning of the Argentine tango. The tango was not always the elegant dance reserved for famed ballrooms, but rather, it had its début on the streets of Buenos Aires with the poor of Argentina. Tango was the result of a booming agricultural economy with no one to work for it. The poor of Argentina were simply the already poor immigrants from Europe who sought a
around his own figure, a crowd begins to form, and soon there are more couples that join into this social dance. This is the scene for the beginning of the Argentine tango. The tango was not always the elegant dance reserved for famed ballrooms, but rather, it had its début on the streets of Buenos Aires with the poor of Argentina. Tango was the result of a booming agricultural economy with no one to work for it. The poor of Argentina were simply the already poor immigrants from Europe who sought a
“Just move the body it also mean exercise”. Exercise has many benefits with your body, it’s help you to strong body and healthy. A lot of people know about this point but they rather ignore it. Now, there is a new activity, it uses music to take that and use a few time, also known as ballroom dance. That is a sport and is enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Arcangeli’s 1994 study found the following: Dance was regarded as having a bearing on health in number of ways. On one
Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay a new genre of music was evolving. This new genre of music eventually came to be called the Argentine Tango. Tango music evolved from the interaction of many different cultures, and it continues to evolve and branch out into many subgenres. Beginning around 1880 the first traces of the Argentine tango were beginning to fall into place. (History 2005) This occurred through the convergence of music of the many cultures which were found in the area. Immigration
right arm around her. The Tango is the third dance to use this hold for couple dancing. The Viennese Waltz is the first dance done in this couple hold. It was very popular in Europe in the 1830’s. Couple dancing before the Viennese Waltz was very formal and did not involve a lot of physical contact just mainly holding hands. About 10 years after the Viennese Waltz came the Polka. Also taking Europe by storm, the Polka became the newest craze to use this scandalous new hold. Tango was extremely different
United States of America, there once was this dance that evolved in a slave state known as South Carolina, Charleston, and a dance called Argentine Tango that evolved in america after being brought into the nation through global expansion. Both of these authentic dances exemplify a specific movement of techniques that gives the dance its power and name. Tango gives us a sensational feel that articulates adequate movements and creates richer, profound appearance. The Charleston dance brings out the joy
Bernardo Bertolucci Bernardo Bertolucci is an expressionist filmmaker in the sense that the style of his films transgresses the realities of everyday life and the traditional cinematic way of depicting it. He achieves this through many techniques such as original camera shots or compositions that only we, behind the camera, could see. Bertolucci also paints his films in a light that creates a surrealist or "metarealist" mood and aura. The Conformist is shot with camera angles that evoke an
SWOT ANALYSIS Running the SWOT Analysis on The Crystal Ballroom – Sizzling Salsa Workshop, we can see there are multiple dimensions to the ballroom, including both positive and negative aspects. The ballroom has several unique strengths which could be utilized to improve performance and attract more customers. Salsa has been a relatively untapped area within the Crystal Ballroom, so this creates an opportunity for our product. There has been a shift on perception on salsa and ballroom dancing
There is no dance like Tango that has so much connection, intensity and passion. Tango is the dance of love as its beauty grabs ones attention leaving a desire to see more. It creates exciting and attractive images that inspire many associations, as well as interpretations such as passion, sensuality, gender, nationality, and a universal form of art. Tango evokes an elusive relationship between music and dance. “A Feeling that is danced, a secret danced between two people, a walking embrace. It’s
Orchestra School of Music at the University of Miami called "Frost" located in Coral Gables offered last Saturday, September 27, a concert with talented youth and with already experience in music, directed by Terence Blanchard and Scott Flavin, and as director John Daversa. On that evening the talented young exposed certain styles and rhythms with instruments such as saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, violin, cello, viola, drums and vocals, creating a genre of classic and jazz music. As we have previously
As I witnessed Lotus festival I experienced music as politics in an impactful way. One theme remained prevalent throughout the festival and which was the stars to end world violence. Maryann Talia Pau, who I heard tell her inspiring story about her idea to weave one million stars to support the end world violence. This mission was taken wholeheartedly at the festival where people of all ages helped construct these stars in support and hung them up on-stage at Buskirk-Chumley Theater. These stars
Latin Music is combination of all types of sounds, rhythms, beats, and vocals. This type of music is the product of influences of different cultures from different periods and the behavior of society due to the Columbus exploration of the Americas. Many things were exchange and adapted because of this. Even though there were a lot of tragic and traumatizing events that happened the development of Latin music was one of the positive things that happened. This essay is going to be about the History
An orchestra concert is a show where people perform their music pieces to people like their parent, friends, or others. I had the same thing on May fifth. During that night, groups of students from sixth, seventh, and eighth played pieces the director, Mr. Dean chose. My classmates and I had many improvements from the year before but some mistakes were included. Instead of first telling what the groups or the group I was in I want to start out with saying what I did. First, I maintained the tempo
the stage playing the music with them and bringing back that person I used to be. It had a wide variety of different instruments included in the performance that caught my attention. By just watching the performers play the music just spoke to me even, because it made me feel really connected with the musical pieces that they were playing. I was not familiar with the composers and the pieces that were being played the reason for this is that I don’t listen to classical music unless I must, but going
Music Concerts I went to my first classical concert which was performed by Benjamin Pila. Honestly, I did not expect too much on this concert, because I had thought all the classical styles of music is boring. I just wanted to go to the concert to get my credits and go home. However, contrasting with my former thought, I was amazed with the music of artist Pila. That was the reason why I could not wait to attend the second concert, which is perform by the artist from Thailand Ekschai Jearakul. The
Valencia College’s Osceola Campus in conjunction with the Valencia College's East Campus Music Department and the Humanities Speakers Series. Mr. Attesti is a famous Italian pianist that has performed in some of the most prominent concert halls in the world. He played the piano at the age of six and performed his first concert when he was eleven year old. Mr. Attesti wants to convey the evolution of music from the Classical era to the Contemporary era. Three historical eras were presented in the
you might call an expert on music. Our piece had to be under three minutes, but time was not a major priority. We were instructed to use four different instruments: the piano, the clarinet, any type of saxophone and any sort of percussion. The final piece of mine and all the other students taking this course was played on the 22nd November at ‘St Michael’s And All the Angels’ Church, as part of a local music festival, open to everyone with a ticket. The music was be played by ‘Tacet Ensemble’
and profound style of jazz music. His development in jazz was one of the most spectacular in the history of music, as demonstrated by more than fifty years of sustained achievement as an artist which led him to be known as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Duke’s music was so original, he called it “American Music” rather than jazz. Based on his success, it’s unlikely to think that he was not even attracted to music in his younger years, however music clearly became a very important