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Tango: An Album of Brazilian Dances, selected and edited by Victor Fell Yellin. Oxford University Press, (www.us.oup.com; 1(800) 451-7556, 2006. 48pp. $18.95.
Would you like to improve your students' sense of rhythm while making beautiful music? This colorful collection of Brazilian dances, with their repeated rhythmic patterns will certainly improve rhythmic reading while enjoying Latin-American music written by a variety of composers. Syncopations abound in almost every piece and a strong, rhythmic left hand provides the background for the lush right-hand melodies. The collection contains 21 dances. Most of them are two pages long and the level of difficulty ranges from intermediate to early advanced.
Beautifully printed by Oxford University Press, the collection contains a very helpful introduction that gives a good historical and musical background on the music of this collection. A paragraph or two are written about each dance and composer, which is very useful for the student and teacher. Dates of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Tango: An Album of Brazilian Dances.(Book review)