For three years, Steve Darmo conducted his research on tango endings, first focusing on the steps and movements. However, he eventually realized that focusing on musicality instead of steps would lead to more fruitful discoveries. In compiling his knowledge, he took himself to task and listened to 1,700 tango songs from some of the most well-known tango orchestras of the dance’s Golden Age. These included music from revered tango maestros such as Anibal Troilo, Osvaldo Pugliese, Juan D’Arienzo, and many others.
As Steve Darmo explored the wide range of musicality that tango has, he was able to discover how important it is to be knowledgeable about tango orchestras to identify when a song will end, thus allowing dancers to properly time the conclusion to a song.
During his research, he classified nine common tango endings and three other uncommon endings. One can find a list of these endings along with accompanying tango music in his website Tango Endings, which also serves as supplementary material for his book.
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