Conclusion

Tango and Salsa are both well known as partner dances from Spanish-speaking countries. When we look at pieces of both genres, we see a huge difference between the musical aspect of the dances. However in these two pieces, they are both written in canon chordal structures, they both have thick textures, extensive string parts, solos, contrasting tempos, several themes, time signatures, and they both having a very moving forward theme in them. From looking at the musical aspects of Piazzolla's Invierno Porteno and Gershwin's Overtura Cubana, we can find the similarities between the genres of Tango and Salsa.