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pasodoble
Sign in to saveAlso known as paso doble
thumb|Festeros parading pasodoble as a military march thumb|right|Pasodoble on ice: Luca Lanotte & [[Anna Cappellini]] thumb|260px|Poster for a bullfight in Barcelona
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Structure
- History
- Others
- Types
- By objective
- March pasodoble
- Taurine pasodoble
- Popular pasodoble
- Band pasodoble
- Display pasodoble
- Tunas
- By region
- Mexican pasodoble
- Puerto Rican pasodobles
- Colombian pasodobles
- Spanish pasodobles
- Ballroom
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Festeros parading pasodoble as a military march thumb|right|Pasodoble on ice: Luca Lanotte & [[Anna Cappellini]] thumb|260px|Poster for a bullfight in Barcelona
Pasodoble (Spanish: double step) is a fast-paced Spanish military march used by infantry troops. Its speed allowed troops to give 120 steps per minute (double the average of a regular unit, hence its name). This often was accompanied by a marching band, and as a result of that, the military march gave rise to a modern Spanish musical genre and partner dance form. Both voice and instruments, as well as the dance then began to develop and be practiced independently of marches, and also gained association with bullfighting due to the genre being popular as an instrumental music performed during bullfights.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pasodoble” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.