Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I've received conflicting
information.
Is 'El Lloron' by Canaro/Fama a milonga or a tango?
Thanks,
Jack
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> Is 'El Lloron' by Canaro/Fama a milonga or a tango?
It is considered a milonga. I have several versions including one by Firpo on
a compilation entitled "Las Milongas mas Milongas" Some very early songs could
sound like either until the distinct songs types coalesced into the forms we
now r
> Is 'El Lloron' by Canaro/Fama a milonga or a tango?
It's up to the dancers - some take it as a tangomilonga
with 80 BPM, some rock the dancefloor with double speed.
Some even interpret it as a candombe, but I didn't see
a tango interpretation yet.
Regards
Peter
The question is not dumb, because most djs play "El lloron" as a milonga.
The score is written as "Tango" and not even as "Tango Milonga". The
structure of the bass line is "long-short-short" that is close but
different than the milonga rhythm which is "longer-very
short-short-short". The mel
Jack,
Andy wrote:
This just points out that a few songs are open to interpretation so you just
have to wing it and dance as you feel the response, or as the DJ does.
D'Agostino plays El Portenito as a milonga but few others do. Some of the
earliest tango songs were little of both milonga an
