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A series of interviews with the revolutionary tango musician.

(Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music). 25 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for alto saxophone and piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. Includes Piazzolla's most famous tangos "Libertango" and "Oblivion." Appropriate for the intermediate to early advanced player. Contents: ARTISANE 1 from A Midsummer Night's Dream AUSENCIAS (The Absent) CHANSON DE LA NAISSANCE (Song of the Birth) DANSEE (Dance) from A Midsummer Night's Dream DUO 1 from A Midsummer Night's Dream EL VIAJE (The Voyage) FRACANAPA LA CHANSON DU POPO (The Song of Popo) from Famille d'artistes LIBERTANGO LOS SUENOS (Dreams) MILONGA from A Midsummer Night's Dream MILONGA FOR THREE MILONGA PICARESQUE MUMUKI NUEVO MUNDO (New World) OBLIVION OUVERTURE from A Midsummer Night's Dream PSICOSIS (Psychosis) SENSUEL (Sensual) from Famille d'artistes SIN RUMBO (Aimless) STREET TANGO TANGO FINAL from Famille d'artistes TODO FUE (It All Was) VUELVO AL SUR (I'm Returning South)

Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier vividly capture the life of Piazolla, the Argentinean musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. 42 halftones.

Public Radio personality Tom Schnabel spotlights giants of the global genre like the late Sufi singer Nusrat Feteh Ali Kahn and this year's Grammy winner Milton Nascimiento, making "Rhythm Planet" both an antidote to the latest flavor of pop and an affirmation of music's power. 125 illustrations, 25 in color.

Tracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. Rather than perpetuating the glamorous worldwide conceptions that often only reflect the tango that left Argentina nearly 100 years ago, authors Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland trace tango's historical and stylistic musical trajectory in Argentina, beginning with the guardia nueva's crystallization of the genre in the 1920s, moving through tango's Golden Age (1932-1955), and culminating with the "Music of Buenos Aires" today. Through the transmission, discussion, examination, and analysis of primary sources currently unavailable outside of Argentina, including scores, manuals of style, archival audio/video recordings, and live video footage of performances and demonstrations, Link and Wendland frame and define Argentine tango music as a distinct expression possessing its own musical legacy and characteristic musical elements. Beginning by establishing a broad framework of the tango art form, the book proceeds to move through twelve in-depth profiles of representative tangueros (tango musicians) within the genre's historical and stylistic trajectory. Through this focused examination of tangueros and their music, Link and Wendland show how the dynamic Argentine tango grows from one tanguero linked to another, and how the composition techniques and performance practices of each generation are informed by that of the past.