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Tango - Dance Suite for Piano Duet, Op. 89 Mvt. 1 [Live]

from Senior Recital by David Lee Grossman

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Starting in April of 2010, I began taking ballroom and swing dance lessons. A few months after that, I also began studying different types of Latin dances, from samba to salsa, bolero to tango. In the modern ballroom dance scene there are two types of tango, the Argentine and the American. Outside of competitions, very few people dance the Argentine Tango – which is the type commonly seen in dance scenes in movies – although some dance schools still teach it over the American style.

This piece is written in the style of the Argentine Tango, but has a tempo more common to American Tango. Musically, Argentine and American Tango are very similar to the cursory listener, but very important differences emerge when you listen closer. The American style is characterized by a consistent eighth note rhythm and a faster tempo, where the Argentine Tango is usually slower and almost always features the rhythm most people associate with the dance (think Habanera from Bizet’s opera Carmen).

In 2011, I wrote a neo-baroque piece called Ancient Dances for flute and harpsichord. That ten minute long piece followed the order of the baroque dance suite, but wasn’t something many people could dance to. For the past few years, I have wanted to write music to dance to, but never had any inspiration or even an idea of which dances I wanted to write. This is the first in a set of at least four planned piano duets, each written for a different dance.

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from Senior Recital, released April 26, 2014
Piano - Alexandria Griner and David Grossman

Recorded at Montgomery Evangelical Free Church on 8/12/2014

Written 8/21/2013

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David Lee Grossman Charleston, South Carolina

Inspired from a young age by Mozart to write music, and more recently John Williams to write soundtrack music, David Grossman began composing in 7th grade and already has a diverse portfolio encompassing many genres from baroque and classical to jazz to choral and vocal music. He is a graduate of Westminster Choir College (BM, Music Composition) and the Seattle Film Institute (MM, Film Music) ... more

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