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The Harvard Dictionary of Music defines the tango as being a song in two equal repeating sections the first section being in one key and the second being in either the key of the dominant or relative minor of the original key. Klezmer and Fado come to my mind, but Gothic / Metal musicians do tip their toes as well. To more knowledgable people than me, it may be a helpful hint that there are particular genres that are "close" to Tango, in that composers and performers from those genres regularly cross over into Tango, or fuse the styles. Modern Electro-Tango music uses a lot of synthetic base drums, where traditional Argentinian Tango doesn't have percussion at all. And while there's instruments that are traditionally used in Tango music (bandoneon and violin), there's plenty of songs that don't use them (there's many classic recordings from the 1930s with just guitar and vocals). Wikipedia tells us that Tango is set in 2/4 or 4/8 time, but that is true for other genres, too. Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese tend to fall into this category.
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Also, there's famous and popular Tango pieces that are not very popular to dance to. As a Tango dancer, I can confirm that this song is quite "tangoable", but I'm pretty sure it's not actually part of the Tango genre. At Milongas (Tango dance events), the DJs sometimes play non-tango music, a good example being "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica. Note that I don't mean "suitable for dancing Tango to". I also have heard musicians refer to songs being "rearranged" as a Tango, and I wonder what that means. Songs that to me seem to have some Tango in it include: "La Chanson Des Vieux Amants" by Jacques Brel.
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"Dos Gardenias", performed, for example, by Buena Vista Social Club.Is there something about a song that can be used to classify it as "a Tango"? There's different Tango styles (Finnish Tango music, for instance, is different from Argentinian) and there seem to be Tango elements in songs that wouldn't necessarily be classified as one.Įxamples of non-classical Tangos include: