Tanda

Overview

A tanda is a set of pieces of music, usually between three or five, that is played during a milonga. Most common the music is a tango, a milonga or a vals. Between two tandas a cortina might be played.

One way of arranging the music could be like the following:

1. four tangos - cortina
2. three milongas - cortina
3. four tangos - cortina
4. three vals - cortina

This could be notated as T4-M3-T4-V3.

Tandas can be arranged by orchestra, by lyrics, by time of recording, by "feel" of the music. In a tanda of tango it is common to play only music of one orchestra.

Sometimes also non-tango tandas are played, like Rock n roll, Cumbia, Chacarera.

schemes

• TTMTTV
  • T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3 ( 3 songs each )
    • Fredi Lienhardt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4589
    • User:Tobiasco/tandas
    • User:Chrisjjj
  • T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V3 3 ( 4 songs for tango, 3 songs for vals and milonga)
    • Tine Herreman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4586
  • T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V4 ( 4 songs, except milonga: 3 songs)
    • Thorsten Zörner
  • unknowkn length
    • Stephen Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4826
• TTTMTV reported at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4588

Links

• http://www.cyber-tango.com/art/tanda.html