Tangoes inspired by or based on well known classical and folk Songs.
This list is work-in-progress. Thanks to contributors from DJTango listserv and Philly area dancers. Please send your additions and corrections to DrTango@bucknell.edu,
1. La Melodia del Corazon by Edgardo Dinato is based on Chopin Opus 10 Etude 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIO8WAtvOgs) Horowitz on Piano
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=EOc2XUvNPbE&feature=related) Tango
Irish Tenor called Filber Wright sings the same piece under the song name "So Deep Is The Night". Chopin Opus 10, Etude 3 is also used in "In mir kling ein Lied" and Tino Rossi's "Tristesse")
2. Ojos Negros Que Fascinan (Francisco Canaro - Roberto Maida) the closest
Russian Equivalent is Tschernye Glaza (Interpretation Pjotr Leschencko).
Intro of the Canaro song is the refrain of the Russian equivalent.
3. Historia de Un Amor - Equivalent Bolero of the same name by Canaro.
This song was made popular not as a tango, but as a bolero
4. La Zandunga (vals) - (F. Canaro, F. Lomuto) It is a synthesis of Mexican Spanish folk song.
5. Danza Hungaria No 5. Enrique Rodriguez (Fox Trot Tempo). Is based on J. Brahms
Hungarian Dance #5.
6. Mi Angelina - vals (Orquesta Tipica Victor) based on My Angeline by the American Composer Wayne Mabel.
7. Ramona, sung as Tango by Carlos Gardel, Canaro, Fresedo etc. is based on American Composer Wayne Mabel’s song
8. Juanita - vals (Jeannine) Composer Nat Shilkret - Also recorded by Luis
Armstrong.
9. Tangos that have snippets of well know tunes :
El Vals de los 15, (D'Arienzo) the "Happy Birthday" song and
La Marcha Nupcial by Biagi has a passage of the Wedding March.
10. Mi Refugio" had a melody line taken from Debussy's piano etude "Reverie",
11. Vuelo del moscardon (Flight of the Bumble Bee) by Osmar Maderna's Orchestra. 12. Sans souci by Miguel Calo ends with a phrase borrowed from Ira Gershwin. 13. Carnaval borrows a line,"Donde vas con manton de Manila" from the Spanish zarzuela La verbena de la paloma. 14. "La Sonambola" from Donizzetti (?) I'm not that sure..., tango by Angel D'Agostino, only instrumental.
15 The opening of "Vida Mia" sounds like the beginning of Bach's d minor Concerto for 2 Violins.
Thanks to Bob Barnes, Richard Lipkin, ManuKC, Joe Grohens, Ilene Marder, Gustavo Benzecry Saba, Maria Olivera, Carlos Vallejos and others.
