[2] "Solace" is marked "very slow march time",[1][4][5] and while it is difficult to determine the intended speed, it has been played andante (around ♪112).

[2] Tangos were introduced to the United States as early as 1860 by Louis Moreau Gottschalk's "Souvenir de la Havane".

[5] Perhaps the first example of tango composed by an African American was Jess Pickett's rag-tango "The Dream", played at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

William H. Tyers' "Maori" was a famous African-American tango published a year before "Solace",[4][5] though the two pieces do not share resemblance.

[8] Moreover, the piece is also featured prominently in the 2013 video game Bioshock Infinite, which is set in a floating city in the year 1912.