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422 tanburastrings are tuned by means of pegs inserted in theneck. It is very similar to the Greek BUZUKI.tanburaAnother name for TAMBURA.tango (täng ′gō) Spanish. A fairly slow dance in2/4 meter, with a characteristic syncopated rhythm,that became popular about 1900 in the cities ofArgentina. Danced by couples, it became knownthroughout Latin America and later in the UnitedStates and Europe. The music consists of two sectionsof equal length. Its rhythm resembles that ofthe HABANERA.tanto (tän′tô) Italian: “so much.” A term used insuch directions as adagio ma non tanto (“slow butnot too slow”), and a tanto possibile (“as much aspossible”).Tanz (tänts).tape musicTRONIC MUSIC.The German word for dance.A name sometimes used for ELEC-tape recording A means of recording sound thatbegan to be developed in the late nineteenth centurybut was not perfected until the late 1930s. It usesrecording tape made of an acetate base and evenlycoated with a magnetic oxide. The tape is moved at aconstant speed past magnetic heads: first, an erasehead, which removes previous recordings; next, arecording head, which converts electric impulsesfrom a microphone or other sound source into magneticimpulses that are recorded on the tape insequence as it moves along; and finally, a playbackhead, which picks up the magnetic impulses andreconverts them into electrical impulses that canthen be amplified and fed through a loudspeaker,reproducing the original sound. Tape recording wasthe principal means of sound reproduction from themid-1940s to the mid-1980s, when it graduallybegan to be replaced by DIGITAL RECORDING. For theuse of tape recording by composers, see underMUSIQUE CONCRÈTE and ELECTRONIC MUSIC.tarantella (tä rän tel′ä) Italian. Also, French,tarentelle (tA räN tel′). A fast dance in 6/8 meter, inwhich the music keeps moving from a major key toa minor key and back again. The dance becomesfaster and faster, ending in very rapid tempo. Originatingin southern Italy, the tarantella became popularwith nineteenth-century composers, among themChopin and Liszt, who wrote short, very fast piecesin this style.tardamenteSee TARDO.tardando (tär dän′dô) Italian.RITARDANDO.Another word fortardo (tär′dô) Italian. Also, tardamente (tär dämen′te). A direction to play in slow tempo.tarentelle See TARANTELLA.Tartini (tär tē′nē), Giuseppe (joo sep′pe),1692–1770. An Italian violinist and composerwho is considered one of the founders of modernviolin technique. One of the first to compose stringquartets, Tartini also wrote an important treatise onviolin playing (published in 1750). Further, he discovereda strange phenomenon of sound, the combinationtone (also called differential tone, resultanttone, or Tartini’s tone), a third tone that is heardwhen two loud tones are sounded together (as in doublestopping on the violin); the pitch of the third tone,which is quite low, is determined by the precise differencein frequency between the two loud tones (seeSOUND for an explanation of frequency and pitch).Although Tartini wrote music for other instrumentsand some church music, the bulk of his works are forthe violin, including more than 100 sonatas, some150 concertos, and a set of 50 variations on a themeby Corelli, entitled L’Arte dell’arco (“The Art of theBow”). One of Tartini’s most famous works is hisSonata in G minor, Il Trillo del diavolo (“Devil’s TrillSonata”), a difficult piece named for a long passageof double trills in the last movement (said to havebeen inspired by a dream about the devil).Tartini’s toneSee under TARTINI, GIUSEPPE.tastiera, sulla (soo — ′lä täs tyer′ä) Italian. Also,sul tasto (soo — l täs′tô). A direction to play over the