Carlos Di Sarli and Osvaldo Pugliese belong to the big names of the Golden Era of tango. Although they both made very melodic music, they developed their distinctive styles that differ from each other in many respects. In this post we discuss their differences in handling beat and tempo....

There are many factors that affect your sensation of music. The basic thing that dictates the feeling of liveliness vs. calmness or lightness vs. heaviness more than anything else is, of course, tempo, i.e. the simple beats-per-minute rate of the musical pulse....