Tango Music Resources

Structure of the music

• About rythm and syncopation
  Extracts from the Tango-L mailing list
• Rhythm, Meter, and Dance of the Argentine Tango
  by Kristin Wendland (Emory University)
• Analysis of Rodolfo Biagi's compositions
  by Royce Chau (TangoTang, The Hong-Kong Tango Club)
• The Evolution of Tango Music
  by Pablo Aslan (adapted from "Tango Stylistic Evolution and Innovation", UCLA Masters thesis, 1990)
• Tango and Milonga: A close relationship
  by Gabriela Mauriño (Latin American Folk Institute)
• The Latin Influence in Early Jazz
  "We find a tango rhythm in Neil Moret’s Cubanola; in Scott Joplin’s & Louis Chauvin’s Helioprope Bouquet; many of Jelly Roll Morton’s compositions where he uses the rhythm as an ostinato bass pattern; as well as W. C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues."
• El Jazz, The Tango
  by Carlos Suarez (Tango No. 9)
  "Jazz and Tango? But of course! Both had the uncertain origins of any other cultural hero; historically vague, suspicious, perhaps with very few recorded concrete and hard facts about it... "
• Teaching/Dancing Philosophy ...
  by Theo & Marsha Bartek ()
• Music Theory and the Tango
  by Kristin Wendland, Emory University

Styles and evolution

• Stephen and Susan Brown's website
  Incredible website with thousands of links to online resources on tango music, also includes a comprehensive list of styles of tango dance music with the classics.
• Ernesto's Tango Page

Lyrics

• Tango Lyrics Home Page
• Planet Tango's lyrics in English
• Tango Corner's tango lyrics

Online radios and free music

• Radio Cubik Tango
• Todo Tango
• ToTango
• Argentino Tango Podcast