zur Tangogeschichte - 5

Der musikalische Hintergrund des Tangos, eine grobe Zusammenfassung:
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The history of tango starts around the the year 1870, when, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, dances and songs of different origins came together.

The Cuban seamen who sailed the commercial route between the Caribbean Sea and the Río de la Plata brought the habanera, a slow dance in 2/4 time. The payadas, improvisations that the gauchos sung with the guitar, had become milongas when they got to the suburbs of the city. [...]

But the tango doesn't only have blood of habeneras, payadas and milongas.

In the second half of the XIXth century, Spanish theatre companies came to Buenos Aires and they included habeneras and Andalusian tangos in their plays. The Andalusian tango was a variation of the habenera but more cheerful and light-hearted.

To all this, one has to add the contribution of the slaves and their candombes, their pulsing rhythm and improvised steps and that of the Italian immigrants who loved to sing and were able to play instruments.

The tango then was born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, it has something of the candombe, much of an habanera, rests of milonga and Andalusian tangos and a bit of Italian music.
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Mónica Gloria Hoss de le Comte, The Tango