Milonga
One of tango's ancestors — faster, lighter, more rural
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Milonga is an Argentine-Uruguayan song-and-dance genre, often seen as one of tango's ancestors: faster, lighter in rhythm, closer to rural and street life. The word can also mean a tango dance party, but as music the milonga has its own repertoire and vocabulary.
It differs from tango: tango is slower and more dramatic, the milonga springier and more colloquial. The usual mistake is to call milonga a "fast tango" — they are related genres, not one thing at two speeds.
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Sources
- 米隆加与探戈的关系，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Milonga"；本文为原创表述
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