Tangos

Subject: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 22 Sep 98 - 03:20 PM

I am looking for Tangos (sheet music, songbooks) with lyrics in either English or Spanish. I've found some websites with lyrics, but I am still looking for books I can get either through a library or bookstore. There are a few tangos in 'abc' on the web, also. Thanks for any referrals.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: The Shambles
Date: 22 Sep 98 - 03:54 PM

Have you tried Finland? The Tango is very big there still. Honest.

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 22 Sep 98 - 08:38 PM

The tango has revived all over the world. We have a weekly tango dance here in this little town in Montana.
alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Henry
Date: 22 Sep 98 - 11:18 PM

Same around here : Montréal , Québec .

Subject: RE: Tangos
From:
Date: 25 Sep 98 - 06:12 PM

Tons of tango sheet music in Buenos Aires and nothing in the rest of the world, that´s a fact. And the Net seems to have some copyright-problems with sheet music. whoever looks for something in particular, write me, maybe I can help. Daniel

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Malena
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 05:53 PM

I just found an interesting Site: http://laue.ethz.ch/cm/partit/scores.html godd luck, Daniel

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 06:25 PM

Malena, thanks for that link! and Daniel, thanks for your email. I may need your resources after I track down specific songs. Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 27 Sep 98 - 05:56 AM

Malena, Yes, thanks, cool link. I have a collection of Tangos arranged for Violin/Guitar, I got them from Caliendo Music Publishing, 10061 Riverside Drive, #242, Toluca Lake Cal. 91602. Or 1-888-tango42. But I can't recall off hand, ever hearing anyone SING a Tango.

Frank i.t.s.

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 98 - 11:28 AM

Frank, check out the Tango lyrics sites at:

http://www.hooked.net/~tangoman/letras.htm

ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/local/rec/argentina/letras/tangos

http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~b-astigu/argentina/tangos/mail2.html

In the US, tangos are usually mixed into the genre "Torch Songs". I found one in a 1957 songbook called Torchy. The tango is 'Careless Lips (Tango Roulette)'. I also have a songbook of Latin American folk music that has a tango song (urban folk) in the section on Argentina, along with country dance songs. I am trying to put something together to sing with accordian accompanist. I like to dance the Tango, so I am trying to track down the sheet music or more songbooks.

Julio Iglesias, in his recording called "Tango" wrote this: "This album is dedicated to my parents. I believe I was born because of a Tango."

alice in montana

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 27 Sep 98 - 12:42 PM

Another interesting link on singing tango music.

Gardel Sings Better Every Day
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/sam/arg2.htm

alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 02:30 AM

And please don't forget that classic in the DT "The Masochism Tango". I note that there is no tune for it in the DT. I do have a score for it somewhere - will look it up next week when I've finished travelling.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 11:39 AM

Thanks, John. a.

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Malena
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 02:33 PM

Hey Frank, don´t they sing tangos in the swamps? Singing is almost as important in Argentine tango as is playing. Carlos Gardel is a GOD in Argentina (I don´t like him too much personally). Whoever wants to visit a really nice Tango Website, try the Cueva de Krak (it´s in Spanish though). They have MIDI-files to download (some terrible, some really nice) and quite a lot of RealAudio Music. It´s a really beautiful site of Tango Adicionados. It´s at: www.geocities.com/Baja/3061/index.html Daniel

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 04:24 PM

Daniel, are you using two sign on names, [e-mail], and Malena? I'm finding lots of lyrics... now I just have to track down the notation. Thanks for the additional links. alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Barbara
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 01:04 AM

Berryman and Berryman have a funny - yes it is - Tango called Pushing Spring on their Double Yodel CD/tape. The gist of it being it's a serious mistake to get between a Minnesotan and her garden at the beginning of spring, even [especially?] if you have lust in your heart.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 10:09 AM

My next area of searching is the Tango mailing list. If anyone knows of recordings of women singing tango songs, I'd appreciate the information. Thanks. alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Malena
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 04:33 PM

Hi Alice, I just stepped into this page a few days ago and answered your thread with my email-adress (danielmarsch...), then learned how to become a member and I found out that the name Daniel was already taken, to I choose Malena (which is actually the name of a really beautiful tango), so Malena=Daniel, easy, eh? Singing Tango has always been a very male and macho thing, but there are some female singing recordings, I know some old ones, look f.i. for the names of Cecilia Gomez and Rosita Barrios. Good luck, Daniel (or should I say Malena?) PS: actually in this tango Malena is a woman how sings the tango like nobody does (Malena canta el tango, como ninguna), but then again, this song is sung by men...

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 06:00 PM

Thanks, Daniel. I began to see after searching that singing the Tango may be a male territory. I just asked the MIT Tango listserv for referrals to female recordings, so, considering there are hundreds of serious Tango professionals and fans on the list, it will be interesting to see what kind of responses I get.

Welcome to the Mudcat! I love your explanation of 'Malena'.

alice in montana

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: JB3
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 04:27 AM

Alice, if you are still looking for tangos, I have an old (published in 1936) collection of Xavier Cugat's that has sheet music and words to

El Tango De Reve
La Cumparsita
Adios Muchachos
El Relicario
A Media Luz
El Choclo
and Tango in D
BR> All classic tangos. I could send you xeroxed copies by snail mail.

June

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: JB3
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 04:52 AM

Alice, if you are still looking for tangos, I have an old (published in 1936) collection of Xavier Cugat's that has sheet music and words to

El Tango De Reve
La Cumparsita
Adios Muchachos
El Relicario
A Media Luz
El Choclo
and Tango in D
BR> All classic tangos. I could send you xeroxed copies by snail mail.

June

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: malena
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 03:20 PM

Hey June,

if you don´t mind, sending snailmail overseas, I´d love you for that!

Daniel Marsch

Brücke 19

42499 Hückeswagen

Germany

If you look for something, I have quite a few sheets, Daniel

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 12 Oct 98 - 03:39 PM

June, Thanks! I can't get to my message page here at the Mudcat. Could you please email to me at [e-mail] ? Thanks again. Alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 25 Feb 03 - 10:56 AM

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 02:26 PM

Ok, Ok, so I am reviving an old thread I started (that has the first part cut off), back in '98 when I was taking tango classes. Here it is 2006 and I am going back to Tango! I've had a long bout of foot pain and distractions like having to make a living, but I'm excited to be joining in the tango culture that has grown here in .... Montana. My teacher has been going to Argentina for many years and bringing Argentine dancers here to do workshops. The tango craze gathered momentum in the 1990's and has spread across the world. More tango music available now. We even have two rival dance teachers here in this little town!   Any new Mudcatters (since 1998) who are tango fans, singers, dancers?

Alice

Subject: RE: Tangos
From: Alice
Date: 28 May 06 - 04:05 PM

Found restored recordings with sound clips at this site:
http://www.totango.net/restorations.html
and a bit on the destruction of tango master recordings that were purposely burned by RCA in
Buenos Aires.

alice