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. four tangos - cortina
3. three vals - cortina
4. four tangos - cortina
5. four tangos - cortina
6. three milongas - cortina

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

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

see tanda schemes

Listings

Played sets:

• http://www.chrisjj.com/tango/cjjsets/ - earliest tanda listing from 2009-09-04

Tandas:

• http://tandaoftheweek.blogspot.com - 2010-08-10 [1]
• http://www.tandaoftheweek.com/ - 2011-12-31
• http://tangodj.tangoroute.com/tag/tanda/ - 2012-06-13 [2]

Links

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