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:
- four tangos - cortina
- three milongas - cortina
- four tangos - cortina
- 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
- T-T-M-T-T-V
- T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3 ( 3 songs each )
- Fredi Lienhardt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4589
- Tobias Conradi (User:Tobiasco/tandas, sometimes 2 for real non-tango, i.e. Salsa)
- Chris Jordan
- Ricardo ??? (Argentino, lived in Ruhrgebiet, now in Berlin)
- Steve Morrall (mostly)
- Njaal Bendixen (except for one neo tanda)
- T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3-T3-T3-A
- Bob Barnes T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3-T3-T3-A(1or2), where "A(1or2)" means one or two alternative/electro/swing/salsa tunes.
- T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V3 ( 4 songs for tango, 3 songs for vals and milonga)
- Tine Herreman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4586
- Leonardo Beker-Gomez (mostly this scheme)
- Peter Wenger
- Ben Bogart (mostly, or I [Ben] conceive it as T4-T4-V3-T4-T4-M3), but certain venues or events lend themselves more to T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3.
- Ira Goldstein
- T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4
- Miguel Jahnel: in Buenos Aires I use the traditionally structure T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4 with cortinas and aditionally the intermediate tanda with cumbias, rock and/or Foxtrots. In Germany T5-M3-T5-V3
- T4-T4-M3-T4-T4-V4 ( 4 songs, except milonga: 3 songs)
- unknowkn length
- T3-T3-M3-T3-T3-V3 ( 3 songs each )
- T-M-T-V
- T5-M3-T5-V3
- Miguel Jahnel in Germany without cortinas but when I see that the dancer wants more tangos I change the structure to T6-M3-T6-V3 without cortinas. In BsAs T4-T4-M4-T4-T4-V4
- T5-M3-T5-V3
- T-T-T-M-T-V reported at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TangoDJ/message/4588