Clase de Milonga Traspié with music by Francisco Canaro. Our finale for Encuentros D'Tango Seminar.

Our finale for Encuentros D'Tango goes back to the origins from the candombes to the Milonga Traspié and its journey from Habaneras, polkas and payadas. https://corrientessocialclub.co.uk/blog/encuentros-d-tango-autumn-seminar-with-mina-and-giraldo/

Francisco Canaro wrote various milongas and candombes, in today's video his orquesta interpret Candombe, with music and lyrics by Francisco Canaro:

"Candombe of the candombes
for candombe
I give my love.
Negrito de los candombes
I give you candombe
if you love me".

"The milonga is the living folkloric genre par excellence in my land (...) it is a rhythm that receives Afro influences and, by the way, it also comes from the folklore of the south of Spain, the Andalusian folklore, like a good part of our folklore. But it includes a vast area of the southern cone, the Argentinean pampas and the Uruguay". . ( Alfredo Zitarrosa, radio interview, Madrid 1976) Alfredo Zitarrosa was the greatest exponent of the milonga genre in Uruguay. It coexisted with the habanera, but reigned in very humble social environments. For this reason, it has even been called the habanera of the poor.

Sebastian Piana, creator of the Milonga porteña (1931) said about the origins of the Milonga and its evolución from rural to a city rhythm: "Certainly. The habanera was almost the mother of tango. The milonga, on the other hand, belonged to country music, what today is known as folklore. Later the milonga arrived in town, but it was not yet that milonga of which I was the forerunner: it was a rural milonga, sung by gauchos, by that country people that, sometimes, improvised".

The Fast-paced and energetic Milonga helped the emergence of Tango

"Since Milonga was one of the preferred dances in the poorer districts of large Argentine cities and rural areas, this music was usually performed using common instruments such as guitars, flutes, violins, pianos, harps, organ-grinders and even paper-combs and was danced everywhere from the specific dance gatherings to the clubs and street events. Same as tango, milonga was for many years viewed by the Argentine high society as the “dance of the poor ”. -© 2021 - Dance Facts

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Видео Clase de Milonga Traspié with music by Francisco Canaro. Our finale for Encuentros D'Tango Seminar. канала Corrientes -Online Tango Academy-