New release: Libertango (Piazzolla)
Arrangement and study pack
I’ve just published a new study pack: a solo guitar arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango, with full harmonic analysis and study notes.
Astor Piazzolla was born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and grew up in New York before returning to Buenos Aires as a young man.
He trained classically with Alberto Ginastera in Argentina and later with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
Boulanger famously told him to stop hiding his tango background and write the music he actually heard — advice that set the course for the rest of his career.
Buy here it: Libertango (Piazzolla) — guitar arrangement and study pack
The result was nuevo tango, a style that fused the harmonic and contrapuntal vocabulary of jazz and classical music with the rhythmic and emotional intensity of Argentine tango.
It was a controversial style in Argentina at the time, dismissed by traditionalists as not really tango at all, but it eventually became one of the most influential bodies of work in twentieth-century music.
Libertango was composed in 1974, during Piazzolla’s years living in Italy.
It was first recorded that same year on the album of the same name, with Piazzolla on bandoneon leading a small ensemble.
The piece quickly became one of his most-performed compositions and has since been recorded hundreds of times, by tango ensembles, jazz groups, classical performers, and pop artists alike.
It remains the piece most listeners associate with Piazzolla and with modern tango more broadly.
What’s in the bundle:
Performance score with standard notation and TAB
Study score with chord symbols and Roman numeral analysis
Study notes discussing the harmony
Grab it here: Tango Guitar: Libertango — Arrangement, Harmonic Analysis and Study Notes
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