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  2. Milonga (dance) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Milonga (music) - Wikipedia

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    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 ."

  4. Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album) - Wikipedia

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    Variations is a classical and rock fusion album. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by his younger brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber . The Lloyd Webber brothers were always very close but their two different careers (a rock musical composer and a classical cellist ) meant that a collaboration seemed unlikely.

  5. Tell Me Marianne - Wikipedia

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    "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]

  6. Tango - Wikipedia

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    Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [1]

  7. Josefa Díaz Fernández - Wikipedia

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    The harmonious scheme is based in the alternation between tonic and dominant with variations established by each artist. People usually cannot differentiate between milongas and vidalitas . This confusion is mainly due to two aspects: the similar rhythmic and melodic nature of both styles and the mention of vidalita in some milonga coplas.

  8. The Incredible Reason Sloths Grow Algae on Their Fur - AOL

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    Click here to watch on YouTube. While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths ...

  9. Variation (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form. The changes may involve melody, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, timbre, orchestration or any combination of these. Variation is often contrasted with musical development, which is a slightly different means to the