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Milonga is 'a purely African word meaning "argument" or "issue" in Kimbundu and "lines of dancers" in Ki-Kongo. (p9). Europeans first became aware of milonga, the term initially referring to an improvised, combative song, around 1630.
Milonga is a musical genre that originated in the Río de la Plata areas of Argentina, Uruguay, and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is considered a precursor of the tango . "Milonga is an excited habanera ."
"Tell Me Marianne" first entered the sheet music charts for the week ending 26 April 1947. It dropped out the following week, and re-entered on 10 May, before reaching number 1 for a week on 26 June. It spent a total of 17 weeks on the chart. [10] No recordings of the song entered the US Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart. [11]
A tanda is a turn of dancing in a milonga, and by association, a set of pieces of music, usually between three and five, that is played for one turn. The most common style is to play four pieces in the tango tandas, three in the milonga tandas, and three or four in the vals tandas. Most commonly the music is tango, milonga or vals.
The most distinctive music of Uruguay is to be found in the tango and candombe; both genres have been recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. . Uruguayan music includes a number of local musical forms such as murga, a form of musical theatre, and milonga, a folk guitar and song form deriving from Spanish and italian traditions and related to similar forms found in ...
Although in the years of the 1910s the Gardel-Razzano duo —who came from the world of payada and milonga campera— integrated their repertoire almost exclusively with folkloric songs (El sol del 25, El moro, El pangaré), it is considered that the key moment of the resurgence of Argentine folklore was the historical performance that Andrés ...
Alemannisch; العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Cymraeg; Deutsch; Eesti; Español; Esperanto; فارسی; Ido; Italiano ...
Central joropo (Spanish: joropo central) is also known as tuyero ("Tuyan"), joropo tuyero ("Tuyan joropo") or golpe tuyero ("Tuyan beat"). [3]Characteristic of the central states of Venezuela, like Aragua and Miranda, eastern Carabobo and northern Guárico, central joropo, or tuyero (as practiced in the Valles del Tuy along the Tuy River) is sung accompanied by harp (arpa tuyera, sometimes ...