396  Proper Names of Piazzola tangos

Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:18:45 -0800
From: Sergio <cachafaz@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject: Proper Names of Piazzola tangos

Somebody is asking the following:


"Could any one tell me the meaning (translation in English)
of the following masterpieces of Piazzolla's tango works:"

1. Adios Nonino (good-bye to whom?)
2. Milonga del angel (? of Angel)
3. Danza crilla (Crilla Dance?)
4. Tres movimientos tanguisticos portenos
5. Tangazo (tango?)
6. Oblivion (just a noun ?)

Thanks for help!

1. Adios Nonino - Nonino in Italian is a diminutive for nono (Grand
father), it is used by Argentineans of Italian origin to refer to their
grand father in a loving way. Piazzola composed it to say good bye to his
own father in 1955, Eladia Blazquez wrote the Lyrics of which I am enclosing
a translation.

Versisn en inglis

From a scintillating star
he will signal me to come,
by a light of eternity
when he calls me I will go.
To ask him for that child
that I lost with his death,
that with "Nonino" he went..
When he tells me come here...
I4ll be reborn.... because...

I am....! the root of the country
that modeled with its clay,
I am....! blood and skin,
of that Italian who gave me his seed...
Good-bye "Nonino"... how long the road
will be without you

Pain, sadness, the table and the bread...!
any my good-bye.... Ay....! my good-bye
to your love, your tobacco, your wine.
Who, without pity, took half of me,
when taking you "Nonino"....?
Perhaps one day, I also looking back...
Will say as you, good-bye... no more bets....!

and today my old "Nonino" is part of nature.
He is the light, the wind, and the river...
this torrent within me replaces him,
extending in me his challenge.
I perpetuate myself in his blood, I know.
And anticipate in my voice, his own echo.
This voice that once sounded hollow to me
when I sail good-bye... Good-bye "Nonino".

I am....! The root of the country
that modeled with its clay,
I am....! blood and skin,
of that Italian who gave me his seed...
Good-bye "Nonino"... you left your sun in my destiny.
Your fearless ardor, your creed of love,
And that eagerness... Ah...! your eagerness,
for seeding the road with hope.
I am your honeycomb and this drop of sunlight
that today cries for you "Nonino"
perhaps the day when the string is cut
I will see you and I will know there is no end.

2- Milonga del angel. It means Milonga one of the three Argentinean dances
related to tango.
Tango - Milonga - Vals

3- Danza Criolla . Criolla (creole) refers to something that originated in
the rural areas of Argentina. Also anything that originated in the country
itself as a distinction of something originated elsewhere.
Criollo originally referred to the descendants
of Europeans born in Argentina.

4- Tres movimientos tanguisticos porten~os. Movimiento means many things but
in music it means : Speed of the beat, (movimiento lento - slow), Part of a
musical work - the second movement of a sinphony. Porten~o refers to
somebody or something from Buenos Aires (a port city). In summary : It means
three tango musical works from Buenos Aires.

5- Tangazo. The ending "azo" in Castilian (Spanish) is augmentative. Perro
(dog) - Perrazo (big dog).
But in Argentina it also means something "very good".
Tangazo then is a very good tango.

6- Oblivion - Is a noun - it means the state of being blotted out of the
memory. Something forgotten.
It comes from Latin oblivio - oblivionis to forget .
Ob(prefix) and liveo black, livid.