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    The tango is a dramatic, improvised dance performed in an embrace that involves stalking walks, dramatic gestures, and turns. The music that accompanies tango features a syncopated four-beat rhythm in a minor key with layers of repeating patterns and is commonly played by a sextet including violins, piano, double bass, and the bandoneon, a large concertina-like instrument with bellows.

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    The tango is a dramatic, improvised dance performed in an embrace that involves stalking walks, dramatic gestures, and turns. The music that accompanies tango features a syncopated four-beat rhythm in a minor key with layers of repeating patterns and is commonly played by a sextet including violins, piano, double bass, and the bandoneon, a large concertina-like instrument with bellows.

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    Features of The Dance

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    The tango is a dramatic, improvised dance performed in an embrace that involves stalking walks, dramatic gestures, and turns. The music that accompanies tango features a syncopated four-beat rhythm in a minor key with layers of repeating patterns and is commonly played by a sextet including violins, piano, double bass, and the bandoneon, a large concertina-like instrument with bellows.

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    1. Features of the dance The tango is a powerful dance, earthy and dramatic and is danced in an embrace.

    It could be described as stylised walking. The walk has a 'stalking' nature with dramatic gestures. Steps are based heavily on improvisation, there are no set steps. Movements are sometimes slow and slithery, sometimes abrupt with quick foot flicks and head turns. Tango is danced anti-clockwise around the outside of the dance floor. 2. Features of the music It is frequently danced to. Tango dance has a very distinct style, they originated in Argentina but are very popular and renowned Worldwide, musically, they always contain four beats to a bar and feature syncopated (off beat) rhythms. They are always in a minor key and generally feature layers of ostinato (repeated patterns) 3. Instruments commonly used (a sextet) with two violins, piano, double bass and two bandoneons. 4. Descriptions of any 'different' instruments e.g.bandoneon A bandoneon is a large, square type of concertina with bellows played by pressing keys or buttons.

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