Song
Cuatro Compases
Who recorded it
Every version2Earliest we hold: Ricardo Tanturi, 1942
Versions of Cuatro Compases recorded 1942
Cuatro Compases is a tango.
Cuatro Compases was published in 1942.
Cuatro Compases was composed by Atilio Bruni.
The lyrics of Cuatro Compases are by Oscar Rubens.
The song
The piece as people name it, whoever plays it.
2 orchestras recorded it
44 Dances filmed to it
Who wrote it
- Music
- Atilio Bruni
- Words
- Oscar Rubens
- Written
- not yet cited · help fill it
- First played
- not yet cited · help fill it
Source: TangoCloud catalogue
Lyrics
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Buena como nadie, linda como el sol, reinaba por su pinta en el salón. Bailando un tango nació nuestro romance, mientras la orquesta tocaba estos compases. Cuatro compases que alegraron mi triste corazón con un divino amor. Tango milongón, suave y , que puso el encanto entre mis brazos. Hoy, junto al calor de su tierno amor enterré la angustia de un fracaso. Ya no lloro la maldad de aquélla; ¡ahora vivo tan feliz con ella! Suena bandoneón, que mi corazón quiere esos compases recordar. Buena como nadie, linda como el sol, me trajo la alegría de su amor. Se ha iluminado de nuevo el alma mía al son de un tango que escucho todavía. Cuatro compases milongueros que fueron la emoción de un nuevo y dulce amor.
English · machine translation
Good as anyone, pretty as the sun, she reigned by her looks in the salon. Dancing a tango our romance was born, while the orchestra played these bars. Four bars that gladdened my sad heart with a divine love. Tango milongón, soft and compadrón, that put the charm between my arms. Today, next to the warmth of his tender love I buried the anguish of a failure. I no longer mourn the wickedness of that one; now I live so happily with her! Bandoneon sounds, that my heart wants to remember those bars. Good as no one, beautiful as the sun, She brought me the joy of her love. My soul has been illuminated again to the sound of a tango I still listen to. Four milonguero bars that were the emotion of a new and sweet love.
Every version
Computed from the catalogue, not yet written by anyone
2 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 1 more we know of
a version people dance tono Dances matched yet: something to listen to
The leader is Miguel Caló, 1942, with 68% of the 44 filmed dances matched to a version of this song.
“No match yet” means no filmed dance is tied to that version so far, not that nobody dances it. Dances whose music we have not identified are left out.
Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.
One recording
A dated take, with its sound and the couples dancing it.
Couples filmed dancing this recording · 30 Performances
Danced to it
Music from 1942 · danced on film 2008–2023
2008: 1, 2009: 3, 2010: 2, 2012: 2, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 2, 2016: 1, 2017: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 2, 2023: 2
Where it is danced
The places our videos show it danced, by performances filmed there.
Filmed sets
One Couple dancing three or four songs at one Occasion, every song known. What was danced on film, not what a DJ played.
3 of 4 complete sets on film
Mariano Bielak and Paula Gurini
In the order danced: the video titles number them
- 1Cuatro CompasesRicardo Tanturi, 1942
- 2Yunta de oroColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez), 2003
- 3Sacale puntaEdgardo Donato, 1938
- 4Bajo un cielo de estrellasMiguel Caló, 1941
Alper Özdemir and Ilgın Teti̇kcan
2015 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Yunta de oroColor Tango (Roberto Alvarez), 2003
- 2Cuatro CompasesMiguel Caló, 1942
- 3InfamiaJuan D'Arienzo, 1941
- 4Que tiempo aquelFrancisco Lomuto, 1938
Eugenia Eberhardt and Sebastian Posadas
2009 · In upload order: nobody has said the order danced
- 1Canción de rangoRodolfo Biagi, 1943
- 2La guiñadaAdolfo Carabelli, 1932
- 3Cuatro CompasesRicardo Tanturi, 1942
Read more
- EntryAtilio BruniPerson
- EntryOscar RubensPerson
- EntryCuatro recuerdosComposition
- EntryCuatro palabrasComposition
- EntryCuatro campanadasComposition
- EntryCuatro vidasComposition
- EntryCuatro noviosComposition
- EntryCuatro lágrimasComposition
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Data: recordings, facts and sources
In other catalogues3
TodoTango · tema/1807
tango.info · Z0000060518
MusicBrainz · 4a192e17-2d56-48f0-aee3-a3187414ceb2source
Is a1
Is a Tango
Published1
Published 1942
Composer1
Composed by Atilio Bruni
Lyricist1
Lyrics by Oscar Rubens
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