Pass Pertama di Pertunjukan Tango - Langkah Pertama: Pilihan Musik
Sesekali, kami menemukan sepotong musik yang hampir semua orang sukai. Tango ke Evora adalah contoh yang bagus. Semua orang ingin menari dengan musik itu. Sayangnya, ini sama sekali tidak menghasilkan kinerja yang bagus karena secara konsisten lilting dan mengalir dengan sedikit perubahan dalam dinamika musik.
Idealnya, carilah perubahan kecepatan serta perubahan tekanan dramatis pada musik. Biasanya, jika musik tidak memiliki bagian yang mengalir dan bagian yang lebih tajam atau lebih dramatis, tidak benar-benar mendukung jenis variasi koreografi yang harus berhasil.
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Nama artis
Judul lagu:
Andén
Judul Album:
Situs Artis:
http://www.astillerotango.com.ar/
(Diparafrasekan dari situs web): Astillero dibentuk pada tahun 2005 dengan tujuan untuk menciptakan dan memainkan komposisi baru mereka sendiri, seperti yang dilakukan para guru tango masa lalu.
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Nama artis
Judul lagu:
Bailongo
Judul Album:
The Rough Dancer dan Cyclical Night-Apasionado
Situs Artis:
(Diparafrasekan dari wikipedia): tango Piazzolla berbeda dari tango tradisional dalam penggabungan unsur jazz, penggunaan harmoni dan disonansi yang diperluas, penggunaan tandingan, dan usaha ke bentuk komposisi yang diperluas. Seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh psikoanalis Argentina Carlos Kuri, perpaduan Piazzolla dengan tango dengan berbagai elemen musik Barat lainnya yang begitu terkenal itu begitu sukses sehingga menghasilkan gaya individu baru yang melampaui pengaruh ini.
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Nama artis
Judul lagu:
Bordoneo Y 900
Judul Album:
Situs Artis:
(Diparafrasekan dari creativetango.com): Warna Tango didirikan dan disutradarai oleh Roberto Alvarez. Mengutip Roberto Alvarez: "Musik kami difokuskan pada tango apa: tariannya. Tango mengalami masa-masa sulit, saat orkestra dilarutkan."
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Nama artis
Carlos Di Sarli
Judul lagu:
9 Punto
Judul Album:
RCA Victor 100 Años: Carlos Di Sarli
(Diparafrasekan dari todotango.com): Dia, seperti tidak ada orang lain, tahu bagaimana menggabungkan irama irama tango dengan struktur harmonis, yang tampaknya sederhana, namun penuh dengan nuansa dan kehalusan.
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Nama artis
Judul lagu:
Tidak ada hal lain yang penting
Judul Album:
Situs Artis:
(Dari situs web): Sejak mereka terbentuk pada tahun 1993, band rock orkestra Finlandia Apocalyptica telah merilis enam album studio yang menampilkan sejumlah instrumental berbasis cello bersama dengan beberapa lagu berbasis vokal. Apapun gaya yang telah mereka jelajahi - dari selingan atmosfer hingga cepat, irama pemukulan - musik mereka mencengkeram, dinamis dan penuh melodi.
- 00:05
- When you listen to this music, is this a good performance music?
- 00:09
- And, it's very driving, which is good, because it really makes you want to move.
- 00:14
- But, on the other hand, and this is Anden by Astillero,
- 00:19
- It's like this the whole song. Which is a lot of drive. And so, eventually, you have enough.
- 00:25
- So, here he's talking. There's a little of variety. But it's actually not varied enough.
- 00:29
- It's a great song. It has a lot of drive. You want that drive. But you want more variety.
- 00:35
- Likewise, this song, Bailongo by Astor Piazzolla has this great energy.
- 00:42
- But, likewise, it stays more or less the same most of the song.
- 00:46
- So, one thing you want is variety.
- 00:48
- So that the music...
- 00:52
- Can give you natural excuses to change what you're doing. So you keep the audience's attention, right?
- 00:58
- So they can zone out very easily. And you want to make sure it stays varied, so they don't.
- 01:02
- So, this is Bordoneo y 900.
- 01:08
- And this is ... Very varied, actually, it has this da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and...
- 01:15
- And then it changes. This is same song, completely new energy. So, this is a good choice.
- 01:21
- And, in general, you want songs that have more drive to them, as well.
- 01:26
- So, for example, if you look at some of the traditional stuff,
- 01:28
- Which is beautiful music, but not what you normally perform to.
- 01:32
- Because, for example... let's see.
- 01:37
- So, this doesn't have the same drive to it.
- 01:39
- So, you might do this in a demo, for social dancers. But you wouldn't do it on a stage, for non-tango dancers.
- 01:46
- Or, even as a dramatic thing, stage tango, right?
- 01:48
- It doesn't have that same "Boom", that makes you want to, really sort of agonizing move... Agonizingly beautiful movement.
- 01:55
- Now, there is this rule of thumb I'm saying, that you want the songs to have drive, and be varied.
- 02:00
- But there are exceptions. So, for example, you'll see, on our website we'll have... Let's see, what's it called...
- 02:08
- "Nothing else matters" by Apocalyptica.
- 02:12
- And it doesn't have a lot of variety at all.
- 02:15
- But it's really beautiful. And so, there are some songs which fall in this class of sort of sweet beauty.
- 02:20
- Which, as long as you can stay in this energy of the romanticism of it, it really works.
- 02:25
- I would say this shouldn't be a first performance, though,
- 02:27
- Because it's a tougher thing to do. You don't have this variety to keep the audience's interest.
- 02:36
- In general, though, there's also... I want to make the comment, that...
- 02:40
- For some of the performances that we've choreographed or done,
- 02:43
- There's a free program "Audacity". And you can do a little bit of music editing.
- 02:48
- So, for example, if a song is too long. You usually don't want a routine which is to a 5 minute song.
- 02:53
- Right? No matter how good you are, it's hard to keep the audience's interest for 5 minutes.
- 02:57
- So, what you'll do is you can just find a chunk, where it's very natural to take out a piece of music and smush it together.
- 03:04
- Where you might do a cross-fade. Or you might fade it to nothing. Cut out a chunk, then fade it back in. Something like that.
- 03:12
- And... So, summary: we have music that has lots of variety, has a lot of drive.
- 03:18
- Target length is between 2 and a half and 3 and a half minutes. If it's longer, you can cut it.
- 03:22
- And all rules are made to be broken.