Well, too much blah, blah, blah and I don’t know if all this makes any sense or interest to you……but I tried. A famous habanera is “La Paloma” and in classical music Ravel wrote “Habanera for two pianos” Debussy and Saint Sâns also wrote in Habanera form and, of course, Spanish Albeniz and Falla. The Habanera, another example of the mixing between African and Hispano traditions, follows the tango pattern but in a really slow compass. And it is this Cuban tango that sustains another basic rhythm (kind of slower tango) called Habanera (like the music played by Bebo andChucho Valdés in the video you posted). to impart a slight trace to: her thoughts were tinged with nostalgia. any slight addition vb ( tr), tinges, tingeing, tinging or tinged 3. It is also true that it was in Cuba that Tango Rhythm was absolutely defined and developed (at this time Argentine Tango still wasn’t born so to say). The phrase Spanish Tinge is a reference to the belief that a Latin American touch offers a reliable method of spicing the more conventional 4/4 rhythms. a slight tint or colouring: her hair had a tinge of grey. Jelly Roll’s lovely New Orleans Joys and The Crave are regularly heard at Dixieland festivals. After all, since the earliest days, Dixieland musicians have occasionally played tunes to a Latin beat. the polyrhythmic rhythms from African music arrived to Spain when the Arab domination, and produced some dances (between them el Tanguillo) that later went to America. However, more may be disturbed by that conclusion regarding Spanish tinge. It emerged from a cultural cross wind including Mexico and re-incorporated Cuban and Spanish sounds. Writer Ashawnta Jackson offers a look back at what Jelly Roll Morton referred to as a Spanish tinge. To finish, just to say that while we have been talking about a period of time quite recent, in early XVs. The New Orleans roots of blues and jazz always featured an Afro-Caribbean element. In the twenties, the “Harlem Stride” style also had a slight contact with tango.Īfterwards, tango influence in Northamerican music decresed, till the eighties, when Astor Piazolla made it possible a kind of rebirth of tango, recording his music with jazz musicians from the States and Europe. Its composer said that he started writing a tango, because it was fashion and in request in those days, but that his composition had a sudden shift to a slow blues because that was what he really aimed to do. For years, John Leguizamo, the part-Colombian, part-Puerto Rican writer and actor now starring in his one-man off-Broadway show, 'Spic-O-Rama,' simply called himself Spanish, a word whose noble. In the other way, Scott Joplin’s music was a big influence in brasilian choros and tangos, above all in Ernesto Nazareth’s music (the one you asked me for). In “The Art of Ragtime” (knew of it by references) Shafer and Riedel mention how musicians composed rags mixed with other different styles of music, included tango. Answering (as best as I can…) your question about tango roots…tango, milonga, habanera, tango andaluz, malambo and candombe, all are part of the same musical family and all have their roots in polyrhythmic music.Ībout tango and New Orleans music, the first rhythm influenced by tango was Ragtime.
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