Bolero

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Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, and it became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Bolero (Spanish dance)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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