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Tango Stories: Musical Secrets
Tango Stories: Musical Secrets is a book by Michael Lavocah, edited by Mike Stocks and published by milonga press, that introduces the orchestras of tango dance music chapter by chapter. Unlike the Tango Masters volumes, it covers many orchestras rather than one. The copyright page records a first edition in 2012, a reprint with corrections in 2013, a second edition in 2014 and a revision in 2020 (ISBN 978-0-9573276-4-1).
Copyright page · Publisher
Contents
Part 1 introduces the four orchestras the book calls the 'big four': D'Arienzo, Troilo, Pugliese and Di Sarli. Part 2 has fourteen chapters on other orchestras of the Golden Decade, from Canaro to Demare. Part 3 covers the 1920s, including the era of the sextets and Julio De Caro, and Part 4 returns to the big four. Part 5, Tango stories, has three chapters, followed by a postscript. The appendices cover the anatomy of an orquesta típica and how to listen to tango music, followed by a glossary and an index.
Contents, pp. xi–xii
Use with recordings
An opening note directs readers to the book's website, tangomusicsecrets.com, which has a playlist for each chapter. A margin symbol marks the songs on those playlists, which the author describes as chosen to show each orchestra's sound rather than as best-of lists. Chapters close with recommendations of CDs. The later Tango Masters volume on Francisco Canaro refers back to this book's division of Canaro's career into stages.
How to use this book, p. x · Appendices A–B, pp. 220–222
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- Kind
- Book
- Author
- Michael Lavocah
- Publisher
- milonga press
- Edition
- Second edition, revised 2020
- ISBN
- 9780957327641
- Language
- en
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