What are the best books about tango rhythms music and dance?

Tangueros have a superb resource available for learning about and practicing dance to the different rhythms of Argentine tango music. You want the book TANGO: LET'S DANCE TO THE MUSIC! by professor and tango/bandoneon maestro Joaquín Amenábar of B... read more

The Three Rhythms of Tango Dance Music Originally tango was played on a guitar, sometimes accompanied by piano. Later, as its popularity grew, the orchestras became more formalized, and the bandoneon, a German-made instrument resembling what used to be referred to as a ‘squeezebox’, became the central instrument of the music. read more

For more on the different types of waltz, and 19 th century dance rhythms in general, see Friedrich Zorn’s famous Grammar of the Art of Dancing. For more on the music of Polish dances see these essays by Maja Trochimczyk, (click on the links to the various dance types). For more on tango, including many free scores and audio samples see Todotango. read more