3236  Spanish tanguillo

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:36:05 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Spanish tanguillo

Astrid says:
"Sergio,
tangos and tanguillos and Tango de Malaga are dances, not just songs. And
there are instrumental tangos too. Tangos are very different from
Sevillanas, and Sevillanas are not exactly "music of Southern Spain in
Andalucia", but rather folklore, played and danced in Sevilla, which is one
city in Andalucia. Slightly different from Flamenco, and more simple. The
rhythm is completely different from tangos. Tangos and Tanguillos are
Flamenco."

Dear Astrid and list,

I grew up and was educated in Argentina, had several years of Spanish
culture, Spanish dances, Spanish literature, Spanish history, Spanish
geography... Amen.
The most beautiful monument in Buenos Aires was donated to the city by the
Spanish colony at its base it says: " ...an remember we share the same
language, the same religion, the same history, the same blood..."

Spain is my favorite country to visit, I have been there about twenty times,
and spent long periods in Seville talking to the gypsies about Bulerias,
peteneras, flamenco, tango and tanguillos. While doing so I married a
Spanish girl who gave me a beautiful daughter to whom I teach tango.

The Tanguillo andaluz in the late 19 - early 20th century was just a type of
song as it arrived to Buenos Aires with different theater companies that
presented musicals with great success.
The lyrics of those "Tanguillos and Tangos from Spain" referred to the
Spanish social life and Spanish events ; later on, those lyrics were
changed to reflect Argentinean events and the social reality of the Rio de
la Plata. It was later on and only in spain that a dance developed that is
today known as Tango and tanguillo. The flamenco may have originated in
times of the Roman Empire.

Thank you for specifying that Seville is located in Andalucia which is
Southern Spain.

When you go dancing in Madrid or many other cities in Spain, the same way as
we have tandas of Chacareras in Argentina they play tandas of Sevillanas, it
is very beautiful and moving to see the ladies dance moving the body and the
hands only like a Spanish girl knows how to do.
It never fails, I always get goose bumps.

An example of tanguillo:

Por Dios te lo pio gitana!
por la salu de tu mare!
lo que tu a mi me has jecho!
no se lo digas a naide.

En andaluz: For God I ask you Gipsy wooman - for you mother's health - what
you have done to me - do not tell anyone.