Question
Eydie Gormé (“EE-dee gor-MAY”) accompanies Los Panchos on the wildly popular album Amor, which features songs in this genre like “Sabor a Mi.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of love ballad popular in mid-century Latin America. It shares its name with a slow Spanish couple’s dance that names a Maurice Ravel orchestral piece featuring a repetitive snare drum ostinato.
ANSWER: bolero [accept Boléro]
[10m] Bolero songs were invented by itinerant trovadores in the east of this country. This country’s genre of son (“sone”) uses a clave (“CLAH-vay”) rhythm whose first bar, a 3+3+2 tresillo (“treh-SEE-yoh”), is ubiquitous in pop music.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba or República de Cuba]
[10h] Granados’s “The Maiden and the Nightingale” inspired this Mexican bolero written by a 16-year-old Consuelo Velázquez, the most-covered Spanish-language song of the 20th century. A nine-minute orchestral rendition of this song appears on João Gilberto’s (“zhoo-OW zhee-oo-BARE-too’s”) album Amoroso.
ANSWER: “Bésame Mucho” [prompt on “Kiss Me A Lot” or “Kiss Me Much”]
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