So You Think You Know Tango?
Explore Argentine Tango's music, dance, and poetry in this beginner-friendly course. Discover its history, culture, and modern relevance.
Explore Argentine Tango's music, dance, and poetry in this beginner-friendly course. Discover its history, culture, and modern relevance.
This two-week mini-course is designed for music lovers, musicians, and dancers interested in learning more about the Argentine Tango. It explores the many dimensions of Argentine Tango music, including its origins, popularization during the Golden Age, dissemination abroad, evolution into an artistic music-dance form, and adoption by Argentine and international art-music composers. The course aims to provide learners with an authentic and holistic tango experience by intersecting scholarly studies of history, theory, and culture with knowledge of instrumental performance practices. Learners will also explore basic tango gestures, steps that embody the music, and the poetry of tango, gaining a comprehensive understanding of this multifaceted art form.
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What you'll learn
Gain an appreciation for the Argentine Tango as a multidimensional art form, including music, dance, and poetry
Understand the components that make a tango
Explore the early history and development of tango music
Learn about tango instrumentation, melody, rhythm, and meter
Analyze tango as poetry and its literary significance
Understand basic tango dance movements and their connection to the music
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There are 2 modules in this course
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the Argentine Tango, covering its musical, dance, and poetic aspects. The curriculum is divided into two modules. The first module explores the many dimensions of tango and tango music, including its early history, instrumentation, melody, rhythm, and meter. It also covers the development of instrumental tango and features an interview with tango musicians. The second module focuses on tango words and movements, examining tango as poetry and dance. It includes interviews with dancers, demonstrations of basic steps, and discussions on tango's evolution. Throughout the course, learners engage with various learning materials including videos, readings, quizzes, and discussion prompts, providing a multi-faceted learning experience about this rich cultural art form.
The Many Dimensions of Tango and Tango Music
Module 1 · 3 Hours to complete
Tango Words and Movements
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
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Expert in Music Pedagogy and Argentine Tango
Kristin Wendland is a Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Music at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches undergraduate music theory and history and culture classes at all levels. With over fifteen years of extensive work in Argentine tango, she has developed courses on tango music and dance, established the Emory Tango Ensemble— for which she arranges music and provides coaching—and co-authored Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music with Kacey Link (Oxford, 2016). Throughout nearly two decades of annual travel to Buenos Aires, Wendland received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, organized two professional development institutes on Argentine tango through the College Music Society in 2007 and 2009, and directed a three-week Emory Tango Music and Dance Summer Study Abroad Program in July 2011.
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