Tangos Milongas & Other Latin Dances Solo Piano
for Solo Piano
by Various
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Piano

SKU: HU.9780486427874

For Solo Piano. Composed by Various. Edited by Joseph Smith. Piano Solo, Piano & Keyboard, Repertoire, Collections. Tangos, Milongas and Other Latin-American Dances. Softcover Book. 128 pages. Dover Publications #9780486427874. Published by Dover Publications (HU.9780486427874).

12 x 9 x 0.4 inches.

This unique collection includes 40 tuneful, vivacious dance pieces from the Caribbean and South America. Chosen by editor Joseph Smith from a vast musical literature that remains largely unavailable in North America, all date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and appear in their original versions for solo piano.
Featured composers include the legendary Ignacio Cervantes, who brought new sophistication and refinement to the Cuban danza; Carlos Gomes, whose piano dance "A cayumba" evokes the African influence on Brazilian music; Puerto Rican Juan Morel Campos, a prolific composer of danzas that range from the capricious to the smolderingly passionate; self-taught Ernesto Nazareth, characterized by Heitor Villa-Lobos as "the true incarnation of the Brazilian soul"; Mexican Manuel Ponce, who favored the piano but is best known for his guitar works, which were popularized by Segovia; Jose Quinton, who brought a new textural richness to the Puerto Rican danza; Manuel Saumell, father of the Cuban contradanza; and Alberto Williams, a student of Cesar Franck and founder of the Buenos Aires Conservatory, who brought a new seriousness and professionalism to the musical life of Argentina.