ABSTRACT
Chapter 9, ‘The impact of this artistic research on my own music’, discusses three works I composed in light of the findings of this artistic research and as a direct result of experimenting with the materials and techniques studied (with focus on formal and melodic features, thematic variation, texture, rhythm and meter, orchestration, composition and variation techniques). The pieces by Julio De Caro, Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla and Gustavo Beytelmann analyzed in previous chapters provide an abundance of resources with which musicians can enrich their skills and deepen their understanding of the musical language of tango as a whole, with practices related to composition, arrangement, analysis, research and performance becoming inextricably linked to one another. The musicians studied in this volume have demonstrated exuberant creativity in their approach to tango music, clearly revealing tango’s possibilities for further development. It is my hope that this text shall inspire more confident experimentation with tango’s features as well as the exploration of these possibilities, including the development of original creations through the same process of analysis, reflection and experimentation discussed in previous chapters.
