A bolero is a dance. The Wiki definition was written by a musicologist/scholar and is right to the point:
The bolero is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century, a combination of the contradanza and the Sevillana. Dancer Sebastiano Carezo is credited with inventing the dance in 1780. It is danced by either a soloist or a couple. It is in a moderately slow tempo and is performed to music which is sung and accompanied by castanets and guitars with lyrics of five to seven syllables in each of four lines per verse. It is in triple time and usually has a triplet on the second beat of each bar.
My first two threads of the day dealt with the visualization of music...just a couple examples (see following threads duhh!). Dance is perhaps the non-animated (not with animation as we use the term) visualization of music. If you have an orchestra and no dancers dancing to this Bolero (the famous one) what do you see? You see the players move their fingers and bows and the conductor keeping time and offering expressions to guide the playing....again a form of visualization of the music...
See, it is all the same..just different
The bolero is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century, a combination of the contradanza and the Sevillana. Dancer Sebastiano Carezo is credited with inventing the dance in 1780. It is danced by either a soloist or a couple. It is in a moderately slow tempo and is performed to music which is sung and accompanied by castanets and guitars with lyrics of five to seven syllables in each of four lines per verse. It is in triple time and usually has a triplet on the second beat of each bar.
My first two threads of the day dealt with the visualization of music...just a couple examples (see following threads duhh!). Dance is perhaps the non-animated (not with animation as we use the term) visualization of music. If you have an orchestra and no dancers dancing to this Bolero (the famous one) what do you see? You see the players move their fingers and bows and the conductor keeping time and offering expressions to guide the playing....again a form of visualization of the music...
See, it is all the same..just different