Ephel Duath - Embossed (On The Corpse)

MILONGA (Spanish: milonga) - Argentinean folk song and dance. Distributed also in Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile. The size is two-part, the pace is moving, the melody is often syncopated. M. is characterized by the rhythm formula of accompaniment common to habanera and tango. The older form of M. is song (cultivated by argent. Gaucho in the middle of the 19th century); M.-dance took shape in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the last third of the 19th century, at first as a street dance of the mountains. lower classes, later as a theater. and parlor dance. At the turn of the 19-20 centuries. choreographic M.'s form was supplanted, and partly absorbed by tango. M. was reflected in the work of argent. comp. A. Podesta, F. Hargreaves, X. Aguirre, A. Williams and others.