ABSTRACT
Chapter 8, ‘El entrerriano — Comparative Analysis of Arrangements by Pugliese, Salgán and Piazzolla’, deals with three unique arrangements of Rosendo Mendizábal’s El entrerriano (the oldest known piece extant in today’s tango repertoire) by the previously mentioned musicians. A comparative analysis serves to highlight and further exemplify many characteristics of these musicians’ styles as well as shed light on two significant aspects: (1) how each arrangement relates to the original tango, allowing for a better understanding of how its 210main features were re-created, how its materials were organized, how accompanimental models were defined and how orchestration, texture and formal parameters were established and (2) how the arrangements relate to each other in terms of common features, differences and peculiarities. In order to illustrate some stylistic features, a scheme introduced by Julián Peralta in his book La orquesta típica (2008) is used. The aspects studied relate to: the structure of the arrangement, the instrumentation and texture used, the kind of accompaniment (marcatos, countermelodies, background figures), the kind of speech used in each thematic fragment (rhythmical/melodic, staccato/legato), the main melodic features, the connections between phrases and sections (connecting passages, sudden changes) and the different tempos as well as the main performance techniques employed.
