Scriabinoff wrote: ↑Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:29 pm
caostotale wrote:I can't understand the handwriting at all, but here is my 'table of contents'. It would appear that the editors 'processed' (обработка) most of the works and the others (1,3,4,9, and 20) are 'transposed'. Pretty much all of the composers are of the 'popular' or 'light' variety of Soviet musicians who wrote lots of film music, popular songs, and the like. We've seen some names, like Tsfasman's, in other similar volumes. I've mostly seen these names in volumes of popular piano/accordion-accompanied songs:
I think the distinction is between "arranged" where the piece was not already in tango form, and "transcribed" where it was a pre-existing tango and may have been taken from a recording. Our old friend, the indefatigable Artur Polonsky did most of the arranging/transcribing. In other/later volumes where these works appear - somes lightly edited - his name is not attached.
Tangoes, for piano ('Music for Leisure' series) (1983) (edited and compiled by A. Polonsky)
(Soviet composers)
[<snip>
(foreign composers)
17. P. ABRAHAM (Hungary) - Tangolita, from the operetta 'Ball at the Saba'
18. F. ALFANO (Argentina) - Muchacho
19. K. BRUN (France) - Parisian Tango
20. A. VILLOLDO (Argentina) - Argentine Tango
21. E. KARRARA (France) - Abandonado
22. N. MENENDEZ (Brazil) - Green Grass
23. H. EBERHARDT (Germany) - Red Rose
Completing my resetting of this volume of tangos, I found that the section on foreign composers was a bit of a mess, with altered names and composer misattributions. Cyrillic phonetic translations are always a b**** when French names are involved e.g. K.BRUN = C.BRUHN. I wonder whether the research was done by some kid on work experience, or Polonsky was sneaking in some Western music under the radar.
While researching the pieces I found a number of recordings or performance videos by Russian musicians all following these misattributions. It appears that other published arrangements for guitar, and other ensembles repeated the errors.
Here is what I believe to be the actual pieces
17. Paul ABRAHAM (Hungary) - Tangolita , from the operetta "Ball at the Savoy" (Ball im Savoy)
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7427195
18. Julio César SANDERS (Argentina) - Adios Muchachos
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7431005 (Franco Alfano is an Italian composer)
19. Christian BRUHN (France) - Paris un tango (famously sung by Mireille Mathieu)
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7431497
- this 1971 popular song also appears in the 1989 collection "Dance Music of the Thirties"!
20. Angel VILLOLDO (Argentina) - El Choclo (not just any old Argentine Tango!)
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7431659
21. Emile CARRARA (France) - Abandonado
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7433018
22. Nilo MENENDEZ (Cuba/USA) - Aquellos Ojos Verdes (Green Eyes)
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7433024
23. Hans EBERHARDT (Germany) - Eine rote Rose im schwarzen Haar (A Red Rose in Black Hair)
https://musescore.com/user/4151271/scores/7433033