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Tango Malvern Music


You may soon become fascinated as we did with the seemingly endless variety of tango music available.
A good place to start is the Cuesta Arriba Tango Club
This is a useful resource for tango dancers to find out about music and compile their own collection if they so wish.
We are often asked by dancers during the classes about some of the music we play. The tango music library can be vast as it dates from the 1920’s right up to the present day.
We quite often play music from as early as 1935 and then just a little later on from 2009!
However, due to the popular interest shown, our aim now is to try to include some background info on the music we use, and today we’ll start with one of the earliest yet still most popular orchestras, Francisco Canaro.
He was the original musician to develop tango music starting as early as 1916 and continuing into the 1940’s. During that time he was the innovator behind expanding the musical sextet into a full “orchestra tipica” of well over 30 instruments, and in particular increasing the number of bandoneons and violins.
The most well known song “poema “ (1935) is loved by us all it seems, it is often played at milongas, practicas and during classes- the singer is Roberta Maida who seems perfect for the era, worked with Canaro farily extensively during the 1930’s.