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Orchestras

Every orchestra of the century, grouped by era and in canon order. Each great orchestra’s periods sit on its line, with how often dancers choose a recording from that period.

The Golden Age · the four pillars

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0.4 43 128 43 14 15 8

Carlos Di Sarli

3 25 23 14 39 38

11 30 16 3 11 11

Osvaldo Pugliese

Number above a band: Dances per recording from that period. Dashed edges: boundaries drawn from the cited period research, exact years on the orchestra’s page. Number beside a period: Dances per recording from it. All orchestra periods →

Orchestras today

First recorded from 1985 on and still danced, or known here by their Songs and filmed Dances, most danced first.

Golden Age

Guardia Vieja

After 1955

Not yet dated

341 orchestras named in our sources or filmed, with no dated recording to place them in an era yet.

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