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“Invierno Porteño,” or “Winter,” the last movement of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. (The allusion is to Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons; Piazzolla, who helped incorporate tango into the classical canon, took snatches of Vivaldi’s themes and inverted and transposed and otherwise renovated them—the seasons in the southern hemisphere are reversed, after all.)
Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
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