Sheet Music: Score
SalTango : Tango & Salsa for orchestra / Daniel Rojas.
by Daniel Rojas (2021)
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- Instrumentation: 2 Flutes (flute 2 doub. piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 Clarinets in B flat (clarinet 2 doub. clarinet in A), 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, percussion (3 players: timbale kit; congas (pair); güiro, bongo bell, triangle), strings.
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As the title suggests, this piece draws on two Latin American
music-dance genres, tango and salsa, both of which are
historically andmusically related. The milonga is a sub-genre of
tango that has been a staple dance within the Argentine and
Uruguayan dance halls sincethe early days of tango. The milonga
features the habanera rhythm, which was brought to the eastern
coast of South America by Cuban sailors.It is a suggestive and
dance-provoking one-bar cell that consists of a rising and
falling pitch contour made famous in the West by Bizet's
'Carmen'.
Salsa derrived from Cuban music and developed in the United
States and the Caribbean nations of Latin America. Salsa, as for
much Afro-Cuban music, finds it's rhythmic source in the
clave (pronounced klah-veh), a two-bar pattern
traditionally executed by the claves (a pair of resonant sticks)
that establishes the order and resulting interaction between
tension and resolution across the various rhythmic layers.
SalTango is intended as an ebullient and gregarious
piece that draws the orchestra and audience together in a
celebration of life and human emotions.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (30p. -- A3 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — An adept amateur or student orchestra to professional level due to the many rhythmic demands.
Duration: 5 mins, 45 sec.
Includes program and performance notes.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc in relation to this work:
Marques Danzon, Ginastera, Revueltas, Aaron Copland, Astor Piazzolla, Elena Kats-Chernin, Mambo, Cuban, Argentina, Latin America, South America, Caribbean, Leonard Bernstein, Westside Story.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 979-0-720244-34-1
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