3447  Waltz Boston--Desde el alma

Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:08:40 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi <clambat2001@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Waltz Boston--Desde el alma

Dear friends from Tango list

Desde el alma, was composed by Rosita Melo , and the original script reads "Vals boston"

Sebastian Piana the composer and musician said about this music
" when playing the vals Boston the pianist does not make the rhitm with the left hand , but with the right , altogether with the melody , keeping the left hand to play the first tempo of the beating, that is to say , the bass part"

It is interesting that this waltz boston have survived for so many years , being played by orchestras such as Maestro Pugliese , and Color Tango.

warm regards
alberto gesualdi

John Ward <johnofbristol@TISCALI.CO.UK> escribis:
The invaluable Richardson devotes a chapter to the development of the Waltz from the Boston. I won't quote the whole thing (though I will send a scan to anyone who is interested) but the main points are:

The Boston appeared in the UK about 1903 and went out of fashion early in 1914.
It was danced to 3/4 (not 2/4) time.
There was little turning.
Three steps covered two bars, so the steps did not coincide with the beat.
Adding tango steps (specifically the corte) to the boston gave rise to the "Tango Valse" and the hesitation waltz.

I could add that when I went to Old Time lessons about 40 years ago I learned the Tango Quadrille and the Tango Waltz. The latter was a sequence dance which had its own special music. It was in 3/4 time but had a tangoesque throb. Of the steps of these two dances I remember precisely nothing.

John Ward
Bristol, UK

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