Which years of each orchestra do dancers choose?
Of 48 applied periods on 14 orchestras, Juan D'Arienzo’s Faster with Polito (1938–39) draws the most filmed Dances per recording: 128. The next is Ricardo Tanturi’s With Castillo, at 45.
From 5,273 recordings in the 47 applied periods with counts, on 14 orchestras
Rodolfo Biagi · First orchestra
1938-09-16 → 1942 · 69 recordings · 2,651 filmed Dances · 38 per recording · 72% sung
The surprise of his piano with D'Arienzo applied to a whole orchestra: the shortest, sharpest beat in tango.
567Filmed Dances
Start · 1938-09-16
- 1938Debuts his own orchestra at the Marabú cabaret.Rodolfo BiagiRodolfo BiagiRodolfo Biagi
End · 1942
- 1942Biagi's 1942 instrumentals, like Bélgica, still keep the choppy, sharply syncopated beat of his earlier style, even as orchestras generally slow down and gain more space; that fuller change in Biagi's own sound comes more in 1943.no public source yet
Recordings · most in a year: 20
Filmed Dances · most in a year: 937
From 189 catalogue recordings, 4 of them in no applied period · gold: applied periods; outlined: selected
How much of each period is sung
Share of recordings with a credited singer; voice share of running time where Parts are measured.
- First orchestra50 of 69 · 3 unknown · voice 24.0% of running time, measured on 5872%
- With Amor75 of 84 · voice 47.8% of running time, measured on 5689%
- Late years27 of 32 · 3 unknown · voice share not yet measured84%
The periods (3)
| Period | Dates | Recordings | Filmed Dances | Per recording | Sung | Mean length | Cited |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-09-16 → 1942 | 69 | 2,651 | 38 | 72% | 2:36 | 2 | |
| 1943 → 1956-03-24 | 84 | 1,020 | 12 | 89% | 2:45 | 2 | |
| 1956-03-25 → 1969-09-24 | 32 | 448 | 14 | 84% | 2:40 | 2 |
Singers and line-up, 1938–42
No singer or musician is on record for this period yet.
piano, bandoneons, violins, double bass for 1938–42 not yet citedhelp fill it
How to read this
- Each row is one orchestra; each band is one applied period, from its first day to its last, on a shared 1915–2000 axis.
- Colour is filmed Dances per catalogued recording in that period: the darker the band, the more often dancers choose a record from it. The number inside is that value.
- Choose a band to open the orchestra in depth below. Hatched gold marks days two periods share; each recording counts in one of them and the two are never summed.
What it shows
Juan D'Arienzo holds 3 of the 5 highest periods. The 5 highest: Juan D'Arienzo’s Faster with Polito (128); Ricardo Tanturi’s With Castillo (45); Pedro Laurenz’s With Podestá (43); Juan D'Arienzo’s Slowing down (43); Juan D'Arienzo’s With Biagi (43). All of them fall between 1935 and 1944.
Orchestras whose own highest period comes in 1950 or later, 1 of 13: Carlos Di Sarli’s Calm and grand (39). Across the 47 periods with counts, 3,457 of 5,273 recordings (66%) have a credited singer; for 546, we don’t know yet.
Method and coverage
- 48 applied periods on 14 orchestras; 47 carry recording counts.
- Boundaries: 48 applied periods cite at least one boundary, 0 cite none; 98 boundary citations in all.
- Membership is the stored assignment of each recording to one period of its orchestra. Where two periods share days, each recording still counts in only one, and the two are never summed.
- Filmed Dances are recording-level matches of filmed Performances to catalogue recordings. Sung means a singer is credited; voice share is measured from Parts where they are held.