And far away, against the background of silence, sounds a soft mumbering, whispering, almost like a complaint. ‘With some imagination we can imagine a late afternoon in the Buenos Aires of that time: The last sunrays throw a shadow on the traditional mate (tea, made from the mate-tree, with a high content of caffeine, consumed from a special cup by a large amount of Argentineans and Uruguayans), some are chatting along, others are seated between flowerpots with jasmine, people sitting on the patios, drinking while sunken into thoughts. Because of this forced mingling, dialects, habits and musical styles were combined. There was very little space to share with a lot of people.
The government saw the black people, the gringos (non-spanish Europeans) and the compadres (the gauchos that moved to the city’s) as one of a kind and put them all together in conventillos, living communities with shared patios and washing units, in the suburbs. There wasn’t enough housing and there weren’t enough jobs to provide for them. In 1887 more than half of the inhabitants of Buenos Aires existed of immigrants, the biggest part consisted of Italians. However, they put their standards so high, that no one but kings and queens could live up to it and off course they wouldn’t migrate. With the idea to increase the intellectualism and wealth of the Río de la Plata, the government of Buenos Aires and Montevideo lured Europeans. On the 25th of May in 1810 Argentina claimed her independence. The Spanish colonised the south of America for three century’s. ‘ We want to make clear that the tango is still the soul of the Río de la Plata.’ Luis Labraña & Ana Sebastián I will answer the following research question: How did the tango canción originate, how did it develop until now and how will it develop in the future? How it began… So you can see it as an introduction into the world of the tango canción. Further I described the most important vocal interpreters and their meaning in the history of the tango canción. So I summarised the major happenings in the development of the music and mainly the poetry, naming only some of the important tango poets. But….unfortunately I didn’t have that much time. I would want to analyse all the poetry, extensively describe the poet’s styles, go more into the unity between music and lyrics, describe all the singers extensively, analyse the style of everyone of them. I found it hard to narrow the information down.
This thesis was the perfect opportunity for this. It is important to have a basic knowledge about the history of the music you play. This is a style in which I can keep learning and developing for the rest of my life. I even decided that I want to do a Master of Music in tango. Now since a year I sing with the two orchestras and the guitar ensemble of the department. I started to show my face in the tango department of the conservatory, where I got a warm welcome. I started to open my ears, eyes and heart for it and knew, this is it. Then, about two years ago, because of some musician friends i got in contact with that music again, tango. There i got to discover different beautiful music styles, that i all wanted to explore, but still there wasn’t this click yet. I started to prepair for the audition and got accepted into the first year.
My vocal teacher in Amsterdam introduced me into Brazilian music and told me about the Latin department in Rotterdam. I remember feeling light afterwards, I felt like I discovered a new world.įor some reason after then listening to tango, and mainly Sandra Luna, very intensively for a while, i lost track of it. Although I didn’t understand the lyrics, nor her explanations in between, that were in Spanish as well, It immediately took a place in my heart. In november 2004 I went to a concert of the singer that is quoted above. This all is tango and because of this tango is the longing for yesterday, the pain from today and the hope for tomorrow.’ Sandra Luna ‘Tango contains the whole life: grandparents, children, dogs, streets, the whole volume of the sentiments, the missing, all the sorts of perfume, the suffering and the joy.
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