The book "TANGO COURSE" by Horacio Salgán is the first written from a technical-musical perspective where the Maestro delivers all his knowledge in the construction of Tango and reveals his working methods of his 85 years of career. The purpose of this work is fundamentally to train the student in the execution of Tango. It is a study of Tango; piano, orchestral, rhythmic and harmonic details. It is intended for musicians and the teaching is facilitated with examples in small scores and with audio examples. In the website that is described in the chapter "Contents of the CD" you will find the audio examples that you can download as many times as you want and also listen online. 🎹 "Music is a great Tradition and that the creators receive from their predecessors and leave for their followers. Aníbal Troilo, Alfredo Gobbi, Carlos Di Sarli, Osvaldo Fresedo, Enrique Mario Francini, and others, contributed and enriched with their talent and their personal style to the elevation of Tango. Let's not forget them. " - HORACIO SALGAN 🎹
CHAPTER 13
THE ORCHESTRA
In order to decipher as clearly as possible that which has to do with the position of the instru- ments when working with an orchestration, we should make use of a few simple graphs which rep- resent the main structures or those used most frequently. There are infinite possibilities in an orches- tration, and obviously we can only mention a limited number of them here. The industrious student may resort to listening to good recorded version of tangos, being that it is nearly impossible to acquire orchestrations on sheet music.
We know that nothing can replace attentive listening or live playing.
Let us begin by imagining an extension in the form of a vertical line, within which the instru- ments of the orchestra are placed as follows:
The following configurations are the most common: