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The Manual compiles in a concise and unencrypted manner the experience of the first ten years of the Emilio Balcarce Tango Orchestra School, systematizing the theoretical and practical study of the styles of the Típicas (tango orchestras) of the 1940s and ‘50s.
The Manual establishes parameters for how to listen to and recognize the particularities of each style, based on the systematic investigation of each style and the classes of the Masters who played in those orchestras. In each chapter, a particular orchestral style is presented. Every chapter has information that contextualizes historically the featured orchestral style, as well as an introduction to the musicians associated with that style.
Careful aesthetic design of the book makes this specialized educational material highly engaging. The format and language of the principal text is accessible to a general public, while the specific musical analysis (clearly more technical) is elaborated in the appendix of the book.
The Manual includes a DVD, which offers a complete and detailed analysis of each one of the arrangements mentioned in the written text. The DVD contains the sheet music for each musical example used in the book, the complete arrangement of each work analyzed for the style in question, and specific commentaries about the musicians’ correct execution of the music according to the characteristics of the style. Also, brief videos present some specific hand positions on individual instruments, each particular to a type of arrangement (or “yeite”) of the orchestral style being studied.
This ambitious project will be a work of reference for anyone interested in profoundly studying the language of orchestral tango. And while the general public will be able to encounter the musical and stylistic secrets of the famous tango orchestras, the musician will find and enormous quantity of information and resources until now inaccessible.
“The Manual of Tango Orchestral Styles” is an fundamental outreach project that will change our way of listening to the tango and give us a deeper way of appreciating this art form.
Idea and Direction: Ignacio Varchausky
Historical investigation and writing: Andrés Casak
Musical Analysis: Andrés Linetsky
With the collaboration of the Masters Emilio Balcarce, Leopoldo Federico, Horacio Salgán, Néstor Marconi, Raúl Garello, Carlos Pazo, José Colángelo and Víctor Lavallén among others.
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| D´Arienzo Orchestra | Orqueta Troilo Orchestra | Di Sarli Orchestra |
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| Pugliese Orchestra | Gobbi Orchestra | Salgán Orchestra |
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| Piazzolla Orchestra |
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