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15 - Synthesizing Analyses: A Choreomusical Study of “La cumparsita”

from Part IV - Interdisciplinary Tango Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2024

By
Rebecca Simpson-Litke
Edited by
Kristin Wendland  and
Kacey Link
Kristin Wendland
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
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Summary

Music theorist and social dancer Rebecca Simpson-Litke brings tango music and dance together through the current interdisciplinary lens of choreomusical analysis. As she explores the connection between movement and music through her transcriptions and analyses of Juan Carlos Copes’s choreography of the famous “La cumparsita,” she shows how music and dance reinforce or complement each other through rhythm.

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Choreomusical analysis of tangotango rhythm and movementJuan Carlos Copes“La cumparsita” choreography
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The Cambridge Companion to Tango , pp. 264 - 280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Bell, Matthew. “Danses Fantastiques: Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of P. I. Tchaikovsky.” Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 1 (2021): 107–137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bosse, Joanna. “Salsa Dance and the Transformation of Style: An Ethnographic Study of Movement and Meaning in a Cross-Cultural Context.” Dance Research Journal 41, no. 1 (2008): 45–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Browning, Barbara. Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Guest, Ann Hutchinson. Choreo-Graphics: A Comparison of Dance Notation Systems from the Fifteenth Century to the Present. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998.Google Scholar
Jordan, Stephanie. Moving Music: Dialogues with Music in 20th Century Ballet. London: Dance Books, 2000.Google Scholar
Kaminsky, David. Social Partner Dance: Body, Sound, and Space. New York: Routledge, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leaman, Kara Yoo. “Musical Techniques in Balanchine’s Jazzy Bach Ballet.” Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 1 (2021): 139–169.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McMains, Juliet and Thomas, Ben. “Translating from Pitch to Plié: Music Theory for Dance Scholars and Close Movement Analysis for Music Scholars.” Dance Chronicle 36, no. 2 (2013): 196–217.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simpson-Litke, Rebecca. “Flipped, Broken, and Paused Clave: Dancing Through Metric Ambiguities in Salsa Music.” Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 1 (2021): 39–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simpson-Litke, Rebecca and Stover, Chris. “Theorizing Fundamental Music/Dance Interactions in Salsa.” Music Theory Spectrum 41, no. 1 (2019): 74–103.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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