For musicians and aficionados of Argentine tango, the scale and scope of the Astor Piazzolla collection at UC Santa Barbara is staggering. Thousands of pages of the composer’s original sheet music.

The tango is usually associated with Argentina, but piano sleuth Joseph Smith has turned up music by a Brazilian tango composer, Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934). Nazareth was more interested in classical ...

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...

The tango has always been a dance that inspires passion in people. Everything about it oozes desire, from the wailing melancholy of the bandoneón (an accordion-like instrument used in tango music) to ...

For Astor Piazzolla and his “Le Grand Tango” work, it’s a little like the old TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: Hey, you got chocolate on my peanut butter! You got peanut butter on my ...