3233  Bandoneon & Tango- word origins

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:49:43 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Bandoneon & Tango- word origins

Dear list

Concerning the origin of bandoneon, there is an interesting article at

https://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/cronicas/el_bandoneon.asp

The word bandoneon seems to refer to the german word, as said in the list, and besides the theory that BAND identifies the name of their maker and ONEON a reference to similar aerophones instruments, also is considered it could be BAND UNION , since Herr Band made this instrument within a cooperative of luthiers .Later Band-Union change to Band-oneon , I don t know why.

Just a final comment about bandoneon, there has been released locally in Buenos Aires a luxury edition of tango music , with a special box to hold the CDs , shaped as a bandoneon , it is beautiful. The CDs are kept inside the middle part, that opens as a real bandoneon . And the covers of each CD are the same color of the middle part , so they keep embedded .




Tango in Spain : besides the flamenco guitar players , there is a tango or tanguillo , that is sung like the sevillanas, or other tunes alike. Usually the singer has guitar players alongside. One spanish singer, Martirio , has several sevillanas, and since she also sings Tangos like Uno and Volver , is interesting to compare their singing.



The spanish guitars..... Well, it is a separate chapter, because what we call in Argentina "spanish guitar " is not the local guitar , that changed with the years , until now that is known as "guitarra criolla" . Is a matter of sound , it is different from the spanish guitar, that is still being made locally by luthiers , but is known as "spanish guitar / etude guitar / concert guitar " , because it uses more noble woods , and the sound is more .... humming .. To proof if the guitar is good, you tap gently the wood , and it keep sounding on her own , without the string being played. In terms of money .... a criolla guitar can be bought as cheap as ARP 130 (USD 40) with her soft envelope to keep it clean from dust and damage.

Now the spanish guitars... it depends on the quality , but no less than ARP 800 (USD 350 ) , and the envelope is a fyber glass , to keep the instrument clean and also unaffected by external changes of temperature.

Ooopss.. I know this would happen, I keep talking about guitars.....



Back to Tango. Is the flamenco tango in Spain , and the tangos or tanguillos sung alike to sevillanas ,related to the tango of Buenos Aires ??? The answer maybe "yes, if we take into account the habaneras of Cuba " . It could have been possible that this spanish tangos were brought to Cuba in the second half of XIX century, by sailors or people traveling from Spain to Cuba. And it could have been possible this habanera "got down" to Buenos Aires. It could have been , which does not mean it was what happened.



There are classic composers like spanish Albeniz that wrote a musical piece , Tango , it can be seen at https://www.piazzolla.org/works2/tangoalbeniz.html



I was surprised at the local movie "Valentin" where the spanish actress Carmen Maura works as a spanish grandmother of an argentine child , to listen to a tango sung by Mrs Maura a cappella, which was very sweet, but not the local tango, she sung a spanish tango , a romantic and sad song.





Tango in japanese means: vocabulary by the way :):)



warm regards

alberto gesualdi

buenos aires











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