Today's tango is the result of the artistic work of several great twentieth-century musicians. However, very few of them have made explicit the musical influences and innovative concepts and ideas that are implicit in their music. In spite of its ever-expanding practice and popularity, there is little knowledge about the art of creating and recreating tangos. In order to get a deeper understanding of the artistic concepts and theoretical foundations of Argentinean tango and my own creative process, my research aims to reflect on, analyse and decode the most significant arrangements and compositions of pianists Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán and Gustavo Beytelmann, as well as bandoneonist Astor Piazzolla. Articulating this embodied knowledge will result in an original contribution that provides new insights, with which both I and other artists will be able to enrich our skills in arranging and performing tango music. It will also inspire future research and musical practice, and respond to a set of on-going issues, concerns and interests on the subject of tango.