Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Dance Music-
Waltz and Tango
- Tango
- 2/4 or 4/4 time with
4 beats in a bar
- moderate tempo
- regular phrases
- Dotted rhythms
- Syncopation
- common rhythms
in tango
- minor key
- Jazzy chords
- Typical Tango instruments
- The bandoneon
- violin
- intruments from a
classic tango
orchestra
- Scraping wood
instrument is common
- guiro
- Where it started...
- Started in Argentinian
backstreets in the 1890's
- rhythm comes from African beats and it
is influenced by the Spanish
- Different types of tango
- Ballroom tango
- Jazz tango
- tango nuovo
- Strong feeling of walking
- Angular rhythms
- Viennese Waltz
- Triple time- 3/4
- 1 bar per second
- oom-cha-cha accompaniment
- Lower strings play this
- Slow, harmonic rhythm
- speeds up towards
end of section
- Rubato
- Phrases of equal length
- often in pairs
- Simple harmony
- mostly I, IV or V
- Instruments
- melody
- flutes
- violins
- strings (see right)
- Where it started...
- an Austrian country dance originally
- music in 3/4 and had hopping steps.
- by late 18t century, hops were replaced by slides
and the Waltz became a fashionable urban dance
- It differed from other dances with its turning steps
and the couples circling on a dance floor
- The closed hold made the dance seem
more daring as it meant there was close
contact
- the couple bow and curtseyed
before dancing
- Would have been danced by men and
women in public and private ballrooms by
the upper and middle class