TANGO E PASO DOBLE
by Jean-François Lézé (1971)
Ref. ava080199
Vibraphone & String Orchestra
TANGO & PASO DOBLE gets inspiration from Argentine Tango.
Argentine Tango, or Rioplatense[i], started to cross boundaries already in the beginning of the 20th century, around 1907, when French sailors brought back home the exotic and sensual Uruguayan tango of Enrique Saborido La morocha, making way for a Parisian tango craze, leading also many Argentinean and Uruguayan artists to travel and even to settle at the French capital. Moulded from the dance, the theme develops with a binary metric, inspired in an Argentinean rhythmic ostinato well known in A.Piazzola tangos.A little witty reference of the Spanish dance Paso doble and its popular use is also present…
[i] Literally “Silver River” [ Rioplatense Spanish a dialect of the Spanish language , mainly spoken in the areas in and around the Río de la Plata basin, in Argentina and Uruguay.]