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Bolero in the danzón: the advent of lyrics in the danzón to produce the danzonete. The bolero-son: long-time favourite dance music in Cuba, captured abroad under the misnomer 'rumba'. The bolero-mambo in which slow and beautiful lyrics were added to the sophisticated big-band arrangements of the mambo.
Seguidillas boleras, or simply boleras, is a palo (style) of flamenco music based on the seguidilla poetic form and the Spanish dance known as bolero. [1] It is considered a member of the cante chico family of palos. [2] The term "boleras" was popularized around 1812–13 to designate female dancers who performed boleros.
That is why Ravel's Bolero is the one piece of classical music that is commonly known and liked by them." [ 28 ] In a 2011 article for The Cambridge Quarterly , Michael Lanford wrote, "throughout his life, Maurice Ravel was captivated by the act of creation outlined in Edgar Allan Poe 's Philosophy of Composition ."
In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.) Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured ...
Bolero, a film starring George Raft and Carole Lombard; Bolero, a French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer; Bolero, a film directed by John Derek; Bolero, a 1990 video-art film by Sabri Kaliç; Bolero, a 1992 short animation film by Ivan Maximov; Bolero, U.S. title of the 1981 French film Les Uns et les Autres
A bolero jacket or bolero (pronounced / ˈ b ɒ l ə r oʊ / or / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in British English and / b ə ˈ l ɛər oʊ / in American English) [2] is a more formal garment of similar construction but made of stiffer fabric, essentially a short tailored jacket, inspired by the matador's chaquetilla. Like the shrug, the sides of the ...
For most art-world buyers, a work unsubtly called “Comedian” lacked a certain a-peel. It’s little wonder: “Comedian” is actually just a banana duct-taped to a wall.
Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of time known as phrases (half of a period).