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Tangos

Early tangos, chiefly from historical piano editions, alongside playable scores where available.

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El Choclo
Tango · Source tempo marking: Moderato · 1913 piano score (3 pages)
An early tango by Ángel Villoldo, presented from the 1913 piano score.
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El Esquinazo
Tango criollo · piano score · Buenos Aires: L. F. Rivarola, c. 1911
Ángel G. Villoldo's original instrumental tango in a piano edition published around 1911. Both music pages are shown below; the PDF also has a blank back page.
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El Argentino
Tango criollo · piano score · Buenos Aires: Breyer Hermanos, early 20th century
Ángel G. Villoldo's original instrumental tango in a piano edition published in the early 20th century. The five scan pages are shown below.
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Bolada de Aficionado
Tango criollo · piano score · Buenos Aires: Alfredo O. Francalanci, early 20th century
Ángel G. Villoldo's original instrumental tango in a piano edition published in the early 20th century. The three scan pages are shown below.
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El Entrerriano
Early tango · piano score · No numeric tempo in the source · Historical piano notation · two pages
Rosendo Mendizábal's instrumental tango, shown in a two-page piano score hosted by TodoTango.
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Felicia
Early tango · violin and piano score · No numeric tempo in the source · Historical score · two pages
Enrique Saborido's early tango in the two-page score hosted by TodoTango.
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La camorra! (Augusto Berto)
Early tango · piano score · No numeric tempo in the source · 1922 historical score · two pages
Augusto P. Berto's tango in a two-page historical score from the Brazilian magazine Para Todos.
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El Cuzquito
Early tango · piano score · 1922 historical score · two pages
Vicente Greco's tango in the complete two-page score printed by O Malho in Rio de Janeiro in 1922.
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Saladillo
Early tango · piano score · 1922 historical score · two pages
Vicente Greco's tango in the complete two-page historical score printed by Para Todos in Rio de Janeiro in 1922.
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El distinguido ciudadano
Early tango milonga · piano score · 1924 historical score · two pages
Peregrino Paulos's tango milonga in the complete two-page 1924 O Malho score.
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Yunta Brava
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango criollo in both music pages of the historical Breyer Hnos. edition.
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Una Fija
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's Una Fija in both music pages of the historical piano edition.
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Tan Rica, la Ñata!
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · three music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango in all three music pages of the historical Breyer Hermanos piano edition.
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El Pinchazo
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango criollo in the complete two-page historical Alfredo O. Francalanci edition.
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¡Muy de la Bombonera!
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · three music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango criollo in all three music pages of the historical Breyer Hnos. edition.
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Pineral
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango argentino in the complete two-page historical Ortelli Hnos. score.
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Kalisay
Early tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
Ángel G. Villoldo's tango in the complete two-page historical Ortelli Hnos. piano score.
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Setenta y cinco
Tango criollo · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
The complete two-page historical piano score by Luiz Levy, published as L. Henri.
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Sentimental
Brazilian tango · piano score · Historical score · two music pages
The complete two-page historical score by Luiz Levy, published as Ziul y Vel.
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Tango burlesco (Sambando)
Brazilian tango · piano manuscript · Historical autograph · complete four-page piece
All four pages of Luiz Levy's 1913 autograph piano score. The piece is also titled Sambando.
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