V-2nd C4 Unsyncopated Tango

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Beneath the mirror, two golden imps in a clock danced the same
> unsyncopated tango they'd always danced."  (V., Ch. 4, p. 98)
>
>
> "unsyncopated tango"
>
> "The dance of the imps is regulated by the constraints of the clock's
> mechanism and therefore lacks the elements of passionate fierceness
> that the jumpy rhythms of the tango impart.  Esther 'felt home'
> here--a comment on her relationship with the clock's owner, no doubt."
> --Grant, Companion, p. 42
>
> http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/

tango

"metronomic dance," 46; "unsyncopated tango," 96; "tango full of minor
chords and an eerie flattening of certain notes" 238; "a slow sad
tango" 279; "A sad tango on the last night of the old world" 317; V.
"giving tango lessons," 388; at L'Ouganda, 398; described, 400; "with
cross-rhythms," 404; "I am the ragtime and the tango." 454; See also
Contango, LtJG Johnny

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