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Adapting the marimba into Astor Piazzolla's music (2016)

Yves Popow
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It is common in the percussion world to play the music by Astor Piazzolla without being proficient in the Tango style. A lot of percussionists, including me, simply play the piano or guitar parts on the marimba without making any adjustments to the arrangement, because it sounds good to us and it is technically possible. By copying directly, we think we know about the style, but we are wrong. This issue can also be found in the marimba arrangements of Bach’s Cello Suites. In my opinion, one should research about styles of the compositions if they were not originally written for percussion. Otherwise one will never be as close as possible to the intended style, which is essential for a good performance. Since Tango is about arranging, my goal is to find a suitable role for the marimba in the music of Astor Piazzolla that is as closely aligned to the stylistic traits of Tango as possible.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsMarimba, Astor Piazzolla, Arranging, Tango, Codarts, classical percussion, interpretation
date05/05/2016
published21/05/2016
last modified21/05/2016
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationCodarts, University of the Arts
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/271640/271641
published inCodarts
portal issueCodarts Artistic Research Reports.
external linkwww.yvespopow.com


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271733 Track 17, marimba bass, guitar harmonic , accom. December 2014wav (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271727 Track 26 , Final recording and arrangement of Otoño Porteño 2015 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271718 Track 25 , marimba solo in Otoño Porteño, 2015 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271716 Track 20, Rhythm section of 5tet arrangement. Result First half, Decmber 2014 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271714 Track 19 , Dead Stroke example (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271712 Track 18 electric guitar and marimba switching , functions.December 2014wav (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271710 Track 17, marimba bass, guitar harmonic , accom. December 2014wav (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271708 Track 16 guitar bass, marimba accom. December 2014 wav (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271706 Track 15, marimba bass and chord part (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271704 Track 14, double bass + marimba chord (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271702 Track 13, marimba and double bass, bass part (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271679 Track 12, Otoño Porteño Trio Version June 5th 2014 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271674 Track 11, Milonga 4 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271669 Track 10, Milonga 3 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271667 Track 9, Milonga 2 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271665 Track 8, Milonga 1 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271663 Track 7, Yumba 4 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271658 Track 6, Yumba 3 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271656 Track 5, Yumba 2 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271654 Track 1 (December 2013) (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271652 Track 4, Yumba 1 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271650 DVD track 01 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271648 otoño Porteño, Yves Popow (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271646 Marimba Tango Method (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved
271643 Research, Yves POPOW, 2015 (c) Yves Popow All rights reserved

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