Astor Piazzolla – Oblivion
Chau Paris (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI Poema Valseado (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI Retrato de Alfredo Gobbi (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI Oblivion (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI Cafe1930 (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI Nightclub1960 (A.Piazzolla) PDF MIDI. Item Number: H0.545652-SC001266187. Oblivion is a music by Astor Piazzolla, a complex Tango Nuevo (New Tango), introspective and poignant.Astor Piazzolla's rhythmic and melodic research is expressed in these compositions where the soul of the Argentine Tango is rediscovered in the contaminations with other rhythms and the use of instruments not linked to the Argentine tradition.
Althought Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. Oblivion is one of his most traditional tangos, less jazzy and Bartókian than his other widely circulated compositions (like Libertango).ِ It was written in 1982 and became widely known when used in the soundtrack of Mario Bellocchio’s film, Enricho IV, the Mad King.
This short piece conjures up a complex mix of emotions which cannot be put into words. It has been recorded for different combinations of instruments, including guitar like guitarist Nadja Kossinskaja who did a nice arrangement for this piece with a beautiful sensation.
In addition to performing as a solo artist or in a duo, Nadja has been a soloist with several symphony orchestras.
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Astor Piazzolla (March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. A virtuoso bandoneónist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles.
Astor Piazzolla was the most important tango composer during the second half of the twentieth century. He studied harmony and classical music with French composer and conductor Nadia Boulanger. In his youth, he made orchestral arrangements for composer Aníbal Troilo’s works.
ِAfter returning from New York, Piazzolla showed strong influence of Jazz in his music, and create a new style “Tango Nuevo”, but when he began making changes to tango music, he was widely subjected to criticism from older tango musicians who described him as “traitor” and his music as ” not really tango”. However Piazzolla told them that “It is modern Buenos Aires’s music”.
During his career Piazzolla played with many famous musicians like Gary Burton, Tom Jobim, violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, singer Amelita Baltar, poet Horacio Ferrer, writer Jorge Luís Borge …..
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Piazzolla's nuevo tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms. As Argentine psychoanalyst Carlos Kuri has pointed out, Piazzolla's fusion of tango with this wide range of other recognizable Western musical elements was so successful that it produced a new individual style transcending these influences. It is precisely this success, and individuality, that makes it hard to pin down where particular influences reside in his compositions, but some aspects are clear. The use of the passacaglia technique of a circulating bass line and harmonic sequence, invented and much used in 17th and 18th century baroque music but also central to the idea of jazz 'changes', predominates in most of Piazzolla's mature compositions. Another clear reference to the baroque is the often complex and virtuosic counterpoint that sometimes follows strict fugal behavior but more often simply allows each performer in the group to assert his voice. A further technique that emphasises this sense of democracy and freedom among the musicians is improvisation that is borrowed from jazz in concept, but in practice involves a different vocabulary of scales and rhythms that stay within the parameters of the established tango sound-world. Pablo Ziegler has been particularly responsible for developing this aspect of the style both within Piazzolla's groups and since the composer's death.