1)In the tango, the man keeps the woman guessing, but the music keeps the man guessing. There is no fun in dancing day in day out to the same music: this eventually leads to choreography, the opposite of tango, which is based on improvisation. Anybody who insists that the dancers dance better if they know the piece of music by heart is talking about ballet, not tango. There are many tangos I know so well that I cannot move to them any more, they don't creat any TENSION and bore the pants off me. My ideal milonga would play exclusively music I didn't know - I haven't come across it yet unfortunately!
2) We follow unfamiliar tango music by following basic Western harmony [ie "harmonic rhythm": the chord progressions] that we are all familiar with because we have been hearing it even in our mother's womb [yes, we hear 3 months after conception]; you only need musical training if you want to name those chords. Unfortunately, our innate musicality gets severely castrated once we are made to count beats. And memorise steps. All people then end up in perceiving is a boring pulse that they are made to believe is what dancing is all about. Some might be alert enough to realise eventually that what they are doing has little to do with the music - but this awareness can take 10 years to manifest itself - and then have to shell out more money on usually pedantic "musicality" classes to get back to where they started in the first place. Great! more money for the "teacher".... Cheers, Andy. --- Huck Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Igor Polk writes: > > Because they are slow: you have plenty of time to > > react and to interpret. IF YOU KNOW HOW ! > > "If you know how." Cute. :-) This totally > misses the point I was making, that no matter how > well one can process and react to unfamiliar music > (which means yes, you do know how, thank you very > much), it is still inferior to the musicality that > comes from intimate almost-like-breathing > familiarity > of the music being played. How could it not be? > > > Ok, Ok, I am going to restrain myself pointing who > "plods > > around clumsily like Frankenstein's monster." > > Which effectively means that by posting this > oblique sideswipe, you did NOT restrain yourself in > any way other than a hypocritically technical one. > > I'm sorry that you disagree with my opinion on > musicality, Igor, and I'm also sorry that you can't > express your disagreement without insulting me, and > in a cowardly denying-you're-doing it manner to > boot. > > Huck > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > Tango-L@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > Andrew W. RYSER SZYMAÑSKI, 23b All Saints Road, London, W11 1HE, 07944 128 739. __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! - the World's favourite mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l