Tune Req: La Camparsita

Subject: La Camparsita
From: alison
Date: 09 May 02 - 01:50 AM

yep, me again looking for another tango........ this is the one they used in "Some like it hot" when Jack Lemoon and Joe E Brown tangoed the night away............

anyone got a simple melody line (or MIDI) with or without guitar chords...

thanks

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Cumparsita
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 May 02 - 02:22 AM

Hi, Alison - the same page has a simple MIDI arrangement of "La Cumparsita."
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: alison
Date: 09 May 02 - 02:25 AM

yeah... I know... I'm just living in hope that someone else has done a REALLY simple one and has it languishing in their computer somewhere... if not I'll get round to it in the next few days...

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: Genie
Date: 09 May 02 - 02:41 AM

I actually have some sheet music for La Cumparsita, which I got from a Latin-American songbook at the Portland, OR public library. A bunch of fake books have it also. If you like, I will try to send it to you [if I can find my sheet music stash], but it really is pretty easy to find if you have access to a medium-sized city library.

"La Cumparsita," BTW, means "the masked one," I think.

Genie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: alison
Date: 09 May 02 - 05:41 AM

thanks... its probably in the "fiddler's fake book" which I should be able to get hold of this weekend....


slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: Escamillo
Date: 09 May 02 - 06:40 AM

This time musicrobot brought the MidiTeca site which has a very good version for piano, violin and bandoneon:

www.geocities.com/Baja/3061/tango.html

Note that there are many versions of tangos in the net. One group is the Euro-American style (which in my humble opinion is a grotesque military march for dancers to walk rigidly across the room with a rose in their teeth) and the other is a sensual, seducing dance of turns and cadences which is the original tango from Argentina and Uruguay. I am in favor of the original, as in everything :))

Un abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: masato sakurai
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:12 AM

Recordings by Miguel Villasboas y su Orquesta and G.Matos Rodriguez are HERE.
LA CUMPARSITA - Tango's Most Famous Song for background information, with lyrics.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Tune Req: La Camparsita
From: alison
Date: 09 May 02 - 09:35 PM

thanks everyone

slainte

alison