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Tango Nuevo movement in violin performance in terms of technical and stylistic elements

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 4, 817 - 831, 29.10.2025
https://doi.org/10.31811/ojomus.1687450

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to determine the technical and stylistic elements used in violin performance of the works written in the Tango Nuevo period and to examine the performance styles. In the study, information about the short history and musical characteristics of tango music, the Tango Nuevo movement and Piazzolla’s musical life as the pioneer of this movement were given. In addition, the way of applying the playing techniques used in violin performance in this genre was analyzed based on the works of Astor Piazzolla. Document analysis method was used in the data collection process of the research and in the analysis of the information obtained. In this direction, sources such as video recordings, books, articles and theses related to the subject of the study were scanned. In addition, the video recordings of Piazzolla’s concert in Utrecht in 1984 with the Quinteto Tango Nuevo orchestra were examined by three instructors who teach violin lessons at different universities, and the violin playing techniques used in the works performed in the concert were determined. In order to carry out the data collection process in an accurate, focused and practical manner, a ‘Work Observation Guide’ was created by taking expert opinions. In line with this data, eight stylistic violin playing techniques reflecting the Tango Nuevo movement were identified in the works in the concert selected for the research, and information about the way these techniques were applied in the composer’s works was given. Among the works performed in the concert, only Milango del Angel was performed without using the stylistic violin playing techniques mentioned in the research. In the piece named Fracanapa, where these techniques were used the most, it was determined that six different playing techniques were applied. Among the techniques identified in the piece observation form, it was determined that the most used technique was ‘latigo’, while ‘escoba’ and ‘gota’ techniques were not used at all. Since Piazzolla’s works are in the repertoire of today’s chamber orchestras and symphonic orchestras and are frequently performed, it can be said that this music has gained an important place in Western music literature. Therefore, it is thought that determining the violin playing techniques used in the works written in the genre of tango music and investigating the ways of their application are important for the correct and effective performance of the Tango Nuevo music style.

References

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  • Link, K. Q. (2009). Culturally identifying the performance practices of Astor Piazzolla’s Second Quinteto [Yüksek lisans tezi, University of Miami]. https://scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/Culturally-Identifying-the-Performance-Practices-of/991031447765702976#file-0
  • Link, K. Q. & Wendland, K. (2016). Tracing tangueros: Argentina tango instrumental music. Oxford University Press.
  • Löfdahl, M. (2012). Approaching Piazzolla’s music: Analysis and composition in interaction [Project, University of Gothenburg]. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/29378
  • Maurino, G. (2009). A new body for a new tango: The ergonomics of bandoneon performance in Astor Piazzolla’s music. The Galpin Society Journal, 62, 263-271. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20753637
  • Molazadeh, S. (2013). An analysis of Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire Du Tango For Flute and Guitar and the influence of Latin music on flute repertoire [Yüksek lisans tezi, California State University]. https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/ns064853f
  • Peliska, S. (2014). Astor Piazzolla’s Concierto Para Quinteto: A new arrangement for woodwind quintet [Doktora tezi, Florida State University]. https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:252873
  • Quinones, J. M. (2013). Constructing the authentic: Approaching the ‘6 tango-etudes pour flûte seule’ by Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) for interpretation and performance [Doktora tezi, University of Huddersfield]. https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23457
  • Reyes, A. A. (2018). A performer’s guide to Astor Piazzolla’s “Tango-études pour Flûte Seule”: An analytical approach (Yayın No. 10745494) [Doktora tezi, The City University of New York]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/performers-guide-astor-piazzollas-tango-études/docview/2019638475/se-2
  • Say, A. (2005). Müzik Ansiklopedisi (3. bs.). Müzik Ansiklopedisi Yayınları.
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Teknik ve stilistik ögeler yönünden keman performansında Tango Nuevo

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 4, 817 - 831, 29.10.2025
https://doi.org/10.31811/ojomus.1687450

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, Tango Nuevo döneminde yazılmış eserlerin sahnelendiği keman performansında kullanılan teknik ve stilistik ögelerin tespit edilmesi ve performans biçimlerinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada, tango müziğinin kısa tarihi ve müziksel özellikleri, Tango Nuevo akımı ve bu akımın öncüsü olmasından dolayı Piazzolla’nın müzik hayatına yönelik bilgiler verilmiştir. Ayrıca bu türde keman performansında kullanılan çalma tekniklerinin uygulanma biçimi, Astor Piazzolla’nın eserleri temel alınarak incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın veri toplama sürecinde ve elde edilen bilgilerin analizinde doküman analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, çalışmanın konusu ile ilgili video kayıtları, kitap, makale ve tezlerden oluşan kaynaklar taranmıştır. Ayrıca Piazzolla’nın Quinteto Tango Nuevo orkestrasıyla 1984 yılında Utrecht’te verdiği konsere ait video kayıtları, farklı üniversitelerde keman derslerine giren üç öğretim elemanı tarafından incelenmiş, konserde seslendirilen eserlerde kullanılan keman çalma teknikleri tespit edilmiştir. Veri toplama sürecinin doğru, odaklı ve pratik yürütülmesi amacıyla araştırmada uzman görüşleri alınarak ‘Eser Gözlem Kılavuzu’ oluşturulmuştur. Bu veriler doğrultusunda araştırma için seçilen konserdeki eserlerde Tango Nuevo akımını yansıtan stilistik sekiz keman çalma tekniği tespit edilmiş, bu tekniklerin besteciye ait eserlerdeki uygulanma biçimi hakkında bilgilere yer verilmiştir. Konserde seslendirilen eserlerden yalnızca Milango del Angel eseri, araştırmada bahsedilen stilistik keman çalma teknikleri kullanılmadan seslendirilmiştir. Bu tekniklerin en fazla kullanıldığı Fracanapa adlı eserde ise altı farklı çalma tekniği uygulandığı tespit edilmiştir. Eser gözlem formunda belirlenen teknikler arasında en fazla kullanılan tekniğin ‘latigo’ olduğu, ‘escoba’ ve ‘gota’ tekniklerinin ise kullanılmadığı tespit edilmiştir. Piazzolla’nın eserlerinin günümüz oda orkestraları ve senfonik yapıdaki orkestraların repertuvarlarında bulunduğu ve sıklıkla seslendirilmesi sebebiyle bu müziğin, Batı müziği literatüründe de önemli bir yer edindiği söylenebilir. Bundan dolayı tango müziği türünde yazılmış eserlerde kullanılan keman çalma tekniklerinin tespiti ve uygulanma biçimlerinin araştırılmasının, Tango Nuevo müziği stilinin doğru ve etkili seslendirilmesinde önemli olduğu düşünülmektedir.

References

  • Aydınoğlu, O. (2019). Arjantin tango müziğinde orkestrasyon stilleri (Tez No. 555558) [Doktora Tezi, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi]. Yükseköğretim Kurumu Ulusal Tez Merkezi.
  • Azzi, M. S. ve Collier, S. (2000). Le grand tango: The life and music of Astor Piazzolla. Oxford University Press.
  • Budó, L. N. (2018). Analysis of uncompiled extended violin techniques with didactic musical and audiovisual examples [Doktora tezi, Georgia Üniversitesi]. https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/de-nardin-budo_lourenco_201805_dma.pdf
  • Büyüköztürk, Ş., Kılıç Çakmak, E., Akgün, Ö. E., Karadeniz, Ş. ve Demirel, F. (2014). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri (18. bs.). Pegem Akademi.
  • Clemente, P. A. (2012). The structural and cyclical organization of Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas (Yayın No. 3497117) [Doktora tezi, University of Hartford]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/structural-cyclical-organization-astor-piazzollas/docview/922654313/se-2
  • Cosano, S. L. (2019). Transcribing Astor Piazzolla’s works to maximize stylistic fidelity: An examination of three saxophone quartets with a new transcription [Doktora tezi, University of Nebraska]. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/musicstudent/147/
  • Drago, A. M. (2008). Instrumental tango idioms in the symphonic works and orchestral arrangements of Astor Piazzolla. Performance and notational problems: A conductor’s perspective [Doktora tezi, University of Southern Mississippi]. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1107
  • Goertzen, C. ve Azzi, M. S. (1999). Globalization and the tango. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 31, 67-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/767974
  • Goldstein, H. (2013). iChe violin! The violin in the Argentina Tango. American String Teacher, 63(1), 30-33. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000313131306300106
  • Gorin, N. (2001). Astor Piazzolla: A memoir. Amadeus Press.
  • Granados, Y. (2001). A pianist’s guide to the Argentine tango (Yayın No. 3032360) [Doktora tezi, University of Miami]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/pianists-guide-argentine-tango/docview/304702874/se-2
  • Karasar, N. (2008). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemi: Kavramlar ilkeler teknikler (18. bs.). Nobel Yayın Dağıtım.
  • Kutnowski, M. (2002). Instrumental rubato and phrase structure in Astor Piazzolla’s Music. Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latino americana, 23(1), 106-113. http://www.jstor.org/stable/780427
  • Lagerlow, J. (2017). Piazzolla’s Tango Etude No. 3: Interpretation in practice [Yüksek lisans tezi, The University of Queensland]. https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:685076
  • Link, K. Q. (2009). Culturally identifying the performance practices of Astor Piazzolla’s Second Quinteto [Yüksek lisans tezi, University of Miami]. https://scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/graduate/Culturally-Identifying-the-Performance-Practices-of/991031447765702976#file-0
  • Link, K. Q. & Wendland, K. (2016). Tracing tangueros: Argentina tango instrumental music. Oxford University Press.
  • Löfdahl, M. (2012). Approaching Piazzolla’s music: Analysis and composition in interaction [Project, University of Gothenburg]. https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/29378
  • Maurino, G. (2009). A new body for a new tango: The ergonomics of bandoneon performance in Astor Piazzolla’s music. The Galpin Society Journal, 62, 263-271. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20753637
  • Molazadeh, S. (2013). An analysis of Astor Piazzolla’s Histoire Du Tango For Flute and Guitar and the influence of Latin music on flute repertoire [Yüksek lisans tezi, California State University]. https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/ns064853f
  • Peliska, S. (2014). Astor Piazzolla’s Concierto Para Quinteto: A new arrangement for woodwind quintet [Doktora tezi, Florida State University]. https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:252873
  • Quinones, J. M. (2013). Constructing the authentic: Approaching the ‘6 tango-etudes pour flûte seule’ by Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) for interpretation and performance [Doktora tezi, University of Huddersfield]. https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23457
  • Reyes, A. A. (2018). A performer’s guide to Astor Piazzolla’s “Tango-études pour Flûte Seule”: An analytical approach (Yayın No. 10745494) [Doktora tezi, The City University of New York]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/performers-guide-astor-piazzollas-tango-études/docview/2019638475/se-2
  • Say, A. (2005). Müzik Ansiklopedisi (3. bs.). Müzik Ansiklopedisi Yayınları.
  • Tsai, I-C. (2005). The evolution of the tango and Astor Piazzolla’s tango nuevo (Yayın No: 3192293) [Doktora tezi, Claremont Graduate University] ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/evolution-tango-astor-piazzollas-nuevo/docview/305006994/se-2
  • Vaughn, J. L. (2016). Violin periphery: Nuevo tango in Astor Piazzolla’s tango-études and minimalism in Philip Glass’ sonata for violin and piano [Doktora tezi, Florida State University]. https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:360470/datastream/PDF/view
  • Yıldırım, A. ve Şimşek, H. (2013). Sosyal bilimlerde nitel araştırma yöntemleri (9. bs.). Seçkin Yayıncılık.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Journal Section Research article
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Tuna Taşdemir 0000-0002-3495-3593

Publication Date October 29, 2025
Submission Date April 30, 2025
Acceptance Date August 29, 2025
Published in Issue Year 2025 Volume: 10 Issue: 4

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APA Taşdemir, T. (2025). Teknik ve stilistik ögeler yönünden keman performansında Tango Nuevo. Online Journal of Music Sciences, 10(4), 817-831. https://doi.org/10.31811/ojomus.1687450