fandango
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10 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Condemnation and liberation by Spanish Church
- Classical music
- Spanish dance
- Portuguese dance
- Figurative meaning
- Fandango in Veracruz
- Philippine Pandanggo
- Citations
- General and cited references
thumb|Eighteenth century Castile (historical region)|Castilian fandango dancers (by [[Pierre Chasselat) (1753–1814)]] thumb|right|250px|Fandango rhythm.
Fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, tambourine or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has an instrumental introduction followed by "variaciones". Sung fandango usually follows the structure of "cante" that consist of four or five octosyllabic verses (coplas) or musical phrases (tercios). Occasionally, the first copla is repeated.