Tango Nuevo

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As Tango Nuevo ( Spanish for new tango , sometimes Neotango ) refers to the style of development, the Tango Argentino further to contemporary forms and art claims. This includes the further development and synthesis of classical tango music with modern, mostly popular musical means and the further development and variation of the forms and elements in Tango Argentino.

Compositional renewal

Astor Piazzolla in 1971

The compositional renewal of the tango is initially linked to Astor Piazzolla : his compositions of a Tango Nuevo , which were written from 1955 after his return to Argentina , are designed as concert music and are therefore “not danceable, at least not in the conventional sense. Rather, they encourage concentrated listening. Piazzolla developed the tango further and assimilated very different influences for this purpose. ”Instead of the same repetition of the predictable rhythmic patterns, the recourse to the familiar harmonic vocabulary and the simple forms of the traditional tango, Piazzolla modernized the tango by recourse to the European art music, Argentine folklore and jazz changed its form and modified its rhythms. He used the counterpoint and the fugue form. He also resorted to harmonious innovations and the tonal language of Béla Bartók , Sergei Prokofjew , Igor Stravinsky and Heitor Villa-Lobos , which gave him dissonances, edgy melodies and progressive formal concepts. With recourse to progressive jazz and the third stream , concepts were also developed to structure the improvisational part in his compositions (for example on the album Summit with Gerry Mulligan ). From 1974 even electronic music found its way into his compositions. Nevertheless, Piazzolla's Tango Nuevo never lost the romantic and the passion, drama, eroticism and vehemence of traditional tango, so that tango always remains tangible. This is reinforced by the recourse to the characteristic timbres of the violin and the bandoneon (whose playing technique Piazzolla perfected), but can also be experienced in interpretations without a bandoneon.

Piazzolla also expanded the range of instruments to include guitar and drums. His record release Libertango (from 1974 and recorded in Milan) became the prototype of this new tango and includes two of his most famous compositions, Libertango and Adios Nonino .

Other protagonists of the musical Tango Nuevo are Juan José Mosalini , Luis Borda and Dino Saluzzi .

Dance renewal

Currently (2008) the Tango Nuevo dance contains completely improvised, but manageable steps that reflect the traditional basis of the dance steps of the classical Tango Argentino . There is also the Neotango , in which steps from the salsa , ballroom dance and swing have immigrated. Tango Nuevo dancers include Gustavo Naveira , Mariano Frúmboli , Fabián Salas , Sebastián Arce , Pablo Veron, BA Tango and Homer Ladas . The Tango Nuevo is danced either to traditional tango music or more contemporary forms up to Electrotango , such as those currently published by the Gotan Project , Bajofondo , Tanghetto or Narcotango .

Gustavo Naveira commented on the concept of Tango Nuevo as follows: "Tango Nuevo can be regarded as the phase after 1980, in which the danced tango reached its highest technical and artistic development."

See also

literature

  • Johannes Feldmann-Bürgers: Tango and Jazz: Cultural Interrelations? LIT-Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2416-0

Individual evidence

  1. Eckhard Weber: Matices . ( Memento from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) is-koeln.de
  2. Tango Danza , 3/2008, p. 5