(Piano Solo Personality). 28 piano arrangements from the tango master, including: Adios nonino * Buenos Aires Hora Cero * Detresse * El mundo de los dos * Fievre (Fiebre de Tango) * Greenwich * Iracundo * La fin del mundo * Nuevo Mundo * Presentania * Recuerdo New York * Se Termino (C'est fini) * Tango choc (Doudou) * Tanguisimo * Te quiero tango * and more. Includes bio.

Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. It first establishes parameters for tango scholarship and then offers ten in-depth profiles of representative tangueros within the genre's historical and stylistic trajectory.

The Art of Tango offers a systematic exploration of the performance, arrangement and composition of the universally popular tango. The author discusses traditional practices, the De Caro school and the pioneering oeuvre of four celebrated innovators: Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann. With an in-depth focus on both reception and practice, the volume and its companion website featuring supplementary audio-visual materials analyse, decode, compare and discuss literature, scores and recordings to provide a deeper understanding of tango’s artistic concepts, characteristics and techniques. River Plate tango is explored through the lens of artistic research, combining the study of oral traditions and written sources. In addition to a detailed examination of the various approaches to tango by the musicians featured in this book, three compositions by the author embodying creative applications of the research findings are discussed. The volume offers numerous tools for developing skills in practice, inspiring new musical output and the continuation of research endeavours in the field. Illustrating the many possibilities of this musical language that has captivated musicians and audiences worldwide, this book is a valuable resource for everyone with an interest in tango, whether they be composers, performers, arrangers, teachers, music lovers or scholars in the field of popular music studies.

(Piano Solo Personality). 28 piano arrangements from the tango master, including: Adios nonino * Buenos Aires Hora Cero * Detresse * El mundo de los dos * Fievre (Fiebre de Tango) * Greenwich * Iracundo * La fin del mundo * Nuevo Mundo * Presentania * Recuerdo New York * Se Termino (C'est fini) * Tango choc (Doudou) * Tanguisimo * Te quiero tango * and more. Includes bio.