4779 NA-E: Tango music course in BA
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:50:15 -0500
From: Ilene Marder <imhmedia@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] NA-E: Tango music course in BA
To: Tango-L <TANGO-L@mit.edu>
In line with recent discussions about difficulty of learning tango
music....Here is info on a tango music seminar in July in BA.....
Ilene
______
July 1 - July 13, 2007
CMS Summer Institute
Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and Practice
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In partnership with
the Academia Nacional del Tango
Conservatorio de Estilos "Argentino Galv?n"
Avenida de Mayo 833
1084 Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://www.anacdeltango.org.ar
https://www.conservatoriogalvan.com.ar/index1.htm
Course Description ? Call for Participation ? Registration
Faculty ? Schedule ? Lodging ? Culture Options
Course Description and Content
Description
The CMS Institute "Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and
Practice," will intersect tango scholarly studies with practical musical
and cultural experience and provide participants with an authentic and
holistic tango music experience in the city of the art-form's birth,
Buenos Aires. The two-week intensive program will consist of a series of
specially designed class activities, including seminars, instrumental
group classes, and ensemble practice, given by The Conservatorio de
Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galv?n" of the National Academy of Tango,
as well as tango cultural and field excursions, organized by the
Institute Director, Kristin Wendland. Seminar topics will give
participants a broad overview of the history, poetics, repertory, and
analysis; individual, group, and ensemble lessons will include
bandone?n, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice; and
cultural and field excursions will include tango music concerts and
shows, tours of tango institutions, and visits to tango historic sites.
Musicians and scholars who do not play bandone?n, piano, violin, double
bass, guitar, flute, or sing, may attend all academic seminars and
participate as observers in the instrumental, vocal, and ensemble classes.
For traveling companions of Tango Institute participants, there will be
a parallel program of tango dance classes and Argentine culture classes
run by local arrangements coordinator In?s Freixas. (Please see "Culture
Options.") Tango dance classes and time in milongas (tango dance halls)
will be scheduled for traveling companions during the afternoon and
evening while the Institute participants are in seminars and classes.
Note: Although the program for Tango Institute Participants is very
full, there will be some opportunities for those interested to take
tango dance classes, and may be arranged on-site in Buenos Aires with
the local arrangements coordinator.
Descriptions of the Institute Seminars and Classes
Note: Seminars and classes will be conducted in a series. All seminars
will have Spanish-English translators.
Seminar: Tango History and Poetics (Arias, with guests Ferrer, Garello,
and Montes) This seminar will give an overview of the history of tango
styles with a philosophical focus and aesthetic comparison with other
significant musical movements that ran parallel to the development of
tango from the late 19th century to the present, such as late
romanticism, post-tonal idioms, and the use of academic counterpoint in
popular genres.
Seminar: Analysis and Repertory (Juli?n Graciano) Musical analysis
applied to tango repertory from the 19th century to the present from the
perspective of form, harmony, rhythm, etc.
Seminar: Introduction to Tango Performance (performance maestros; see
list of instrumental faculty) Group break-out sessions by instrument:
bandone?n, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice. Will
cover specific knowledge of orchestral styles and techniques, as well as
solo experimentation of yeites?special effects specific to tango styles.
Seminar: The Art of Teaching in Tango (Marcela Judith Gonz?lez and Juan
Trepiana) The poetics of pedagogy. The art in the teaching and the
teaching of the art will open a space of debate to reflect and to
analyze the ways of transmitting and teaching the language of the tango
as expression of the popular art in the framework of the academic and
formal teaching. Will include a curriculum design for the teaching of
the tango.
Vocal Seminar: (Maestra Mar?a Jos? Mentana) Review of technical
experience of the participants focusing in the necessities of the tango
genre and significant concepts of tango interpretation; consideration of
phonetics and comprehension of literary themes.
Instrumental Seminar: Elements of Ensemble and Orchestral Practice
(Oscar De El?a) Manner in which instruments function in the tango
orchestra, experiencing the stylistic resources used by the diverse
significant tango orchestras. Basic concepts of tango orchestral
conducting. Specific ensembles will be grouped after registration and
specific repertory will then be selected.
Tutorials: (Assistants from the Conservatory) Special one-on-one tutors,
including recent graduates of the Conservatory, young professionals, and
advanced students, will assist participants during individual practice
sessions.
top
Call for Papers and Lecture-Demonstrations
To promote a cultural exchange between North-American musicians/scholars
and our Argentine hosts (and also to broaden funding possibilities from
participants' institutions), the Institute will include an attendee
presentation session during the first week of the program.
Applicants may submit a 500-word abstract for a 20-minute paper or
lecture-demonstration on topics related to jazz or tango-jazz intersections.
The deadline for submission is January 19, and notification will be by
February 16. Proposals should be submitted to Institute Director Kristin
Wendland at kwendla@LearnLink.Emory.Edu. All-email submissions with
attachments are strongly encouraged. Audio recordings of representative
material are required for lecture-demonstration proposals; attachment of
mp3 files is strongly encouraged.
top
Registration and Estimated Cost
Deadline for registration is Friday, April 20. A minimum of 20
registrants will be required for this institute to occur. CMS strongly
encourages interested persons to register as soon as possible, but to
wait until receiving official confirmation that the quota has been met
before purchasing airline tickets. In the event this institute is
cancelled, all monies paid to CMS are refundable.
Click here to register online on the CMS secure server.
Participants' Basic Expenses
Institute Tuition $850
Average airfare to Buenos Aires* $1,100
Lodging ($60 per night x 13) $780
Meals @ $25 X 13 days $325
TOTAL $3,055
*AIRFARE DETAILS? Price estimate from October '06. Delta (from Atlanta
and Houston), American (from NY and Miami), and United (from New York
and Miami) fly to Buenos Aires. Participants are encouraged to obtain an
estimate based on their own point of origin.
Optional Expenses?Please see Culture Options.
top
Personnel and Faculty
Institute Organizer
Kristin Wendland is Board Member for Music Theory for The College Music
Society. She teaches music theory at Emory University, where she also
gives a course "Tango: Argentina's Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit,"
both as a Freshman Seminar and as a 300-level course on the June Summer
Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires. She has read papers, participated
in panel sessions, and led demonstration workshops on Argentine tango
and music theory topics for The College Music Society, the Society for
Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She recently
organized, co-directed, narrated and performed on an Argentine tango
program of music and dance by Tangueros Emory and Friends in March 2006.
Wendland has traveled to Argentina for eight extended trips since 2000,
and so she knows the city of Buenos Aires as well as its world of tango.
She received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, which
enabled her to give a seminar in Schenkerian analysis at the Universidad
Cat?lica Argentina in Buenos Aires and to pursue her research in the
music of Argentine tango for seven months. While in Buenos Aires, she
studies tango piano styles and arranging with the composer/pianist Sonia
Possetti. Wendland is currently working on a tango music anthology and
making arrangements for the Emory Tango Ensemble.
Coordinator of Classes and Seminars
Marcela Judith Gonz?lez received her Licenciada en Psicopedagog?a
(equivalent to a Masters' degree in Pedagogy) from the University
Salvador in November, 1986. Since 2003, she has been the Pedagogical
Coordinator for the Conservatorio de Estilos tangueros Argentino Galv?n,
Academia Nacional del tango, where she designs special programs and
coordinates the degree programs in arranging, instrumental, and vocal
tango styles. She organized a series of special tango seminars for the
World Tango Festival in Seville, Spain, in March 2005, and also gave a
paper entitled, La ense?anza art?stica en el Tango: desaf?os actuales
(The Art of Teaching Tango: Challenges Today). Before coming to the
Conservatory, she worked in her field of the psychology of pedagogy at
other institutions in Argentina, such as Instituto Movilizador de Fondos
Cooperativos, P.N.U.D/ B.I.R.F Promin-San Cayetano, Instituto
Universitario Nacional de Arte, and the General de Cultura y Educaci?n
Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Local Arrangements Coordinator
As the daughter of an Argentine diplomat, during her childhood and
adolescence Ines Freixas Thays lived and studied in Spain, England, and
the USA. After graduating from high school in the USA, she returned to
Argentina and studied in the Catholic University, graduating as an
English teacher. For the past 23 years she has lived in the Province of
Buenos Aires, in contact with the strongest traditions of the Argentine
people. At present, Freixas Thays works in a bilingual school in the
city of Buenos Aires and has also worked as a Berlitz instructor
teaching both English and Spanish.
Faculty from the Conservatorio de Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galv?n"
INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES
Bandone?n: Maestro Osvaldo Montes
Piano: Maestro Oscar De El?a and Juan Trepiana
Violin: Maestro Fab?an Betero
Double Bass: Maestro Domingo Diani
Guitar: Maestro An?bal Arias and Ram?n Maschio
Voice: Maestra Mar?a Jos? Mentana
Flute: Alejandro Martino
HISTORY and THEORY CLASSES
Juan Trepiana
Marcela Judith Gonz?lez (see biography above)
Horacio Ferrer
Ra?l Garello
Juli?n Graciano
Faculty Biographies
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:50:48 -0500
From: Ilene Marder <imhmedia@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] NA-E: Tango music course in BA
To: Tango-L <TANGO-L@mit.edu>
In line with recent discussions about difficulty of learning tango
music....Here is info on a tango music seminar in July in BA..... check
out the web site for complete details and bios...
Ilene
______
July 1 - July 13, 2007
CMS Summer Institute
Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and Practice
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In partnership with
the Academia Nacional del Tango
Conservatorio de Estilos "Argentino Galv?n"
Avenida de Mayo 833
1084 Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://www.anacdeltango.org.ar
https://www.conservatoriogalvan.com.ar/index1.htm
Description
The CMS Institute "Argentine Tango Music: History, Theory, and
Practice," will intersect tango scholarly studies with practical musical
and cultural experience and provide participants with an authentic and
holistic tango music experience in the city of the art-form's birth,
Buenos Aires. The two-week intensive program will consist of a series of
specially designed class activities, including seminars, instrumental
group classes, and ensemble practice, given by The Conservatorio de
Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galv?n" of the National Academy of Tango,
as well as tango cultural and field excursions, organized by the
Institute Director, Kristin Wendland. Seminar topics will give
participants a broad overview of the history, poetics, repertory, and
analysis; individual, group, and ensemble lessons will include
bandone?n, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice; and
cultural and field excursions will include tango music concerts and
shows, tours of tango institutions, and visits to tango historic sites.
Musicians and scholars who do not play bandone?n, piano, violin, double
bass, guitar, flute, or sing, may attend all academic seminars and
participate as observers in the instrumental, vocal, and ensemble classes.
For traveling companions of Tango Institute participants, there will be
a parallel program of tango dance classes and Argentine culture classes
run by local arrangements coordinator In?s Freixas. (Please see "Culture
Options.") Tango dance classes and time in milongas (tango dance halls)
will be scheduled for traveling companions during the afternoon and
evening while the Institute participants are in seminars and classes.
Note: Although the program for Tango Institute Participants is very
full, there will be some opportunities for those interested to take
tango dance classes, and may be arranged on-site in Buenos Aires with
the local arrangements coordinator.
Descriptions of the Institute Seminars and Classes
Note: Seminars and classes will be conducted in a series. All seminars
will have Spanish-English translators.
Seminar: Tango History and Poetics (Arias, with guests Ferrer, Garello,
and Montes) This seminar will give an overview of the history of tango
styles with a philosophical focus and aesthetic comparison with other
significant musical movements that ran parallel to the development of
tango from the late 19th century to the present, such as late
romanticism, post-tonal idioms, and the use of academic counterpoint in
popular genres.
Seminar: Analysis and Repertory (Juli?n Graciano) Musical analysis
applied to tango repertory from the 19th century to the present from the
perspective of form, harmony, rhythm, etc.
Seminar: Introduction to Tango Performance (performance maestros; see
list of instrumental faculty) Group break-out sessions by instrument:
bandone?n, piano, violin, double bass, guitar, flute, and voice. Will
cover specific knowledge of orchestral styles and techniques, as well as
solo experimentation of yeites?special effects specific to tango styles.
Seminar: The Art of Teaching in Tango (Marcela Judith Gonz?lez and Juan
Trepiana) The poetics of pedagogy. The art in the teaching and the
teaching of the art will open a space of debate to reflect and to
analyze the ways of transmitting and teaching the language of the tango
as expression of the popular art in the framework of the academic and
formal teaching. Will include a curriculum design for the teaching of
the tango.
Vocal Seminar: (Maestra Mar?a Jos? Mentana) Review of technical
experience of the participants focusing in the necessities of the tango
genre and significant concepts of tango interpretation; consideration of
phonetics and comprehension of literary themes.
Instrumental Seminar: Elements of Ensemble and Orchestral Practice
(Oscar De El?a) Manner in which instruments function in the tango
orchestra, experiencing the stylistic resources used by the diverse
significant tango orchestras. Basic concepts of tango orchestral
conducting. Specific ensembles will be grouped after registration and
specific repertory will then be selected.
Tutorials: (Assistants from the Conservatory) Special one-on-one tutors,
including recent graduates of the Conservatory, young professionals, and
advanced students, will assist participants during individual practice
sessions.
top
Call for Papers and Lecture-Demonstrations
To promote a cultural exchange between North-American musicians/scholars
and our Argentine hosts (and also to broaden funding possibilities from
participants' institutions), the Institute will include an attendee
presentation session during the first week of the program.
Applicants may submit a 500-word abstract for a 20-minute paper or
lecture-demonstration on topics related to jazz or tango-jazz intersections.
The deadline for submission is January 19, and notification will be by
February 16. Proposals should be submitted to Institute Director Kristin
Wendland at kwendla@LearnLink.Emory.Edu. All-email submissions with
attachments are strongly encouraged. Audio recordings of representative
material are required for lecture-demonstration proposals; attachment of
mp3 files is strongly encouraged.
top
Registration and Estimated Cost
Deadline for registration is Friday, April 20. A minimum of 20
registrants will be required for this institute to occur. CMS strongly
encourages interested persons to register as soon as possible, but to
wait until receiving official confirmation that the quota has been met
before purchasing airline tickets. In the event this institute is
cancelled, all monies paid to CMS are refundable.
Click here to register online on the CMS secure server.
Participants' Basic Expenses
Institute Tuition $850
Average airfare to Buenos Aires* $1,100
Lodging ($60 per night x 13) $780
Meals @ $25 X 13 days $325
TOTAL $3,055
*AIRFARE DETAILS? Price estimate from October '06. Delta (from Atlanta
and Houston), American (from NY and Miami), and United (from New York
and Miami) fly to Buenos Aires. Participants are encouraged to obtain an
estimate based on their own point of origin.
Optional Expenses?Please see Culture Options.
top
Personnel and Faculty
Institute Organizer
Kristin Wendland is Board Member for Music Theory for The College Music
Society. She teaches music theory at Emory University, where she also
gives a course "Tango: Argentina's Art Form in Body, Mind, and Spirit,"
both as a Freshman Seminar and as a 300-level course on the June Summer
Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires. She has read papers, participated
in panel sessions, and led demonstration workshops on Argentine tango
and music theory topics for The College Music Society, the Society for
Music Theory, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She recently
organized, co-directed, narrated and performed on an Argentine tango
program of music and dance by Tangueros Emory and Friends in March 2006.
Wendland has traveled to Argentina for eight extended trips since 2000,
and so she knows the city of Buenos Aires as well as its world of tango.
She received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, which
enabled her to give a seminar in Schenkerian analysis at the Universidad
Cat?lica Argentina in Buenos Aires and to pursue her research in the
music of Argentine tango for seven months. While in Buenos Aires, she
studies tango piano styles and arranging with the composer/pianist Sonia
Possetti. Wendland is currently working on a tango music anthology and
making arrangements for the Emory Tango Ensemble.
Coordinator of Classes and Seminars
Marcela Judith Gonz?lez received her Licenciada en Psicopedagog?a
(equivalent to a Masters' degree in Pedagogy) from the University
Salvador in November, 1986. Since 2003, she has been the Pedagogical
Coordinator for the Conservatorio de Estilos tangueros Argentino Galv?n,
Academia Nacional del tango, where she designs special programs and
coordinates the degree programs in arranging, instrumental, and vocal
tango styles. She organized a series of special tango seminars for the
World Tango Festival in Seville, Spain, in March 2005, and also gave a
paper entitled, La ense?anza art?stica en el Tango: desaf?os actuales
(The Art of Teaching Tango: Challenges Today). Before coming to the
Conservatory, she worked in her field of the psychology of pedagogy at
other institutions in Argentina, such as Instituto Movilizador de Fondos
Cooperativos, P.N.U.D/ B.I.R.F Promin-San Cayetano, Instituto
Universitario Nacional de Arte, and the General de Cultura y Educaci?n
Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Local Arrangements Coordinator
As the daughter of an Argentine diplomat, during her childhood and
adolescence Ines Freixas Thays lived and studied in Spain, England, and
the USA. After graduating from high school in the USA, she returned to
Argentina and studied in the Catholic University, graduating as an
English teacher. For the past 23 years she has lived in the Province of
Buenos Aires, in contact with the strongest traditions of the Argentine
people. At present, Freixas Thays works in a bilingual school in the
city of Buenos Aires and has also worked as a Berlitz instructor
teaching both English and Spanish.
Faculty from the Conservatorio de Estilos Tangueros "Argentino Galv?n"
INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES
Bandone?n: Maestro Osvaldo Montes
Piano: Maestro Oscar De El?a and Juan Trepiana
Violin: Maestro Fab?an Betero
Double Bass: Maestro Domingo Diani
Guitar: Maestro An?bal Arias and Ram?n Maschio
Voice: Maestra Mar?a Jos? Mentana
Flute: Alejandro Martino
HISTORY and THEORY CLASSES
Juan Trepiana
Marcela Judith Gonz?lez (see biography above)
Horacio Ferrer
Ra?l Garello
Juli?n Graciano
Faculty Biographies
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:13:38 -0500
From: AJ Azure <azure.music@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] NA-E: Tango music course in BA
To: Tango-L <TANGO-L@mit.edu>
As great as that is, having to buy plane ticket and pay for lodging makes
it so very few can actually utilize such an opportunity.
-A
> From: Ilene Marder <imhmedia@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:50:48 -0500
> To: Tango-L <TANGO-L@mit.edu>
> Subject: [Tango-L] NA-E: Tango music course in BA
>
> In line with recent discussions about difficulty of learning tango
> music....Here is info on a tango music seminar in July in BA..... check
> out the web site for complete details and bios...
> Ilene
> ______
