considered to be the first chachachá, in 1953. As a dance, cha cha became popular in the 1950s and 1960s and is descended from mambo through triple mambo. It is in 4/4 time and follows a rhythmic pattern two quarter-notes, three eighth-notes and a eighth-rest
Chachachá
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Chaconne
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a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, play…
Chacony
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(Old Eng.) a slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple…
Ciacona
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Italian
slow stately dance with variations, popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, generally in triple time, played…
Clave
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five note, two bar rhythmic pattern which generates rhythmic measurement and is the foundation and backbone of salsa
Common time
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the time signature 4/4 See common time in Elements of a Musical Score see in Time Signatures
Cut time
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quick duple time in which the half note is given one beat instead of two See cut time in Elements of a Musical Score see in T…
Broken time
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the interposition of short sections (general only a bar or two) in a contrasting time signature; unusual time signatures that…
Country dance
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English
popular eighteenth century French dance form