{"id":1885,"date":"2012-09-09T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cu-tango.com\/tangonew\/?page_id=1885"},"modified":"2017-04-18T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:12:10","slug":"tango-music-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.cu-tango.com\/tangonew\/tango-music-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Tango Music for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are just getting started in tango dancing, you probably are wondering where to buy music to practice to. This page will point you in a few good directions for good tango music that is suitable for dancing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"a001994more\">\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p><strong>Streaming Sites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to find tango music suitable for dancing on a streaming site, such as Pandora, \u00a0Spotify, or Apple Music, \u00a0search for the following orchestra leaders, who had the most popular dance bands during tango&#8217;s &#8220;Golden Age&#8221; (1935-55). We still play music from these artists for tango dancing, because no contemporary musicians have yet to equal them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Juan D&#8217;Arienzo<\/li>\n<li>Francisco Canaro<\/li>\n<li>Juan Di Sarli<\/li>\n<li>Anibal Troilo<\/li>\n<li>Osvaldo Pugliese<\/li>\n<li>Angel D&#8217;Agostino<\/li>\n<li>Rodolfo Biagi<\/li>\n<li>Edgardo Donato<\/li>\n<li>Miguel Calo<\/li>\n<li>Osvaldo Fresedo<\/li>\n<li>Enrique Rodriguez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Buying CDs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My current recommendation for a first CD is the following. Click the image to sample it on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tango-Federico-Dancemasters-RECORDINGS-REMASTERED\/dp\/B00000JFZT\/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347219502&amp;sr=1-3-fkmr0&amp;keywords=federico+tango+federico%27s+selection\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"tango federico selection\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51gthvWFhQL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other People&#8217;s Recommendation<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Here are some good sources for tango music and recommendations. (I will add to this list in future.)<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benbogart.com\/tangomusic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Bogart&#8217;s recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tejastango.com\/tango_music.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Brown&#8217;s recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milonga.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Lavocah&#8217;s review site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.totango.net\/restore.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Elshaw&#8217;s tango remastering project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandragoratango.com\/archives\/2008\/05\/70_of_the_most.php\" target=\"_blank\">www.mandragoratango.com\/dj<\/a>\u00a0(includes some free downloads)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/champaign.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Champaign Public Library<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/cucatalog.org\/polaris\/Search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=3&amp;type=Keyword&amp;by=KW&amp;term=tango+music&amp;page=0&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM%3d*\" target=\"_blank\">some tango music<\/a> in their lending collection.<\/li>\n<li>And the U of I Music Library has a collection of more than 90 classic tango CDs that they do lend out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cu-tango.com\/tangonew\/?p=1999\" target=\"_blank\">Here are my recommendations for what to listen to from this CD collection.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>U of I Library also allows streaming of some of their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/vf-uiu\/Search\/Home?lookfor=tango&amp;type=all&amp;start_over=1&amp;submit=Find&amp;filter[]=locations:%22uiu_ejournals%22\">tango music collection<\/a>\u00a0(requires login).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.argentinetangoradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">argentinetangoradio.com\/<\/a> <\/b>(Programmed by Balazs Gyenis, Budapest. The only online tango radio 100% dedicated to danceable tangos.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This archive page of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cu-tango.com\/tango\/archives\/music\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">music topics<\/a> my old blog &#8220;The Topic is Tango&#8221; has some choice items of musical interest collected over several years. I will consolidate these things on a new page soon, but they are worth digging through now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are just getting started in tango dancing, you probably are wondering where to buy music to practice to. This page will point you in a few good directions for good tango music that is suitable for dancing. 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