ETYM Spanish A name brought, together with the dance, from the West Indies to Spain.
A provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets.
Lively Spanish dance performed by a couple.
An 18th-century Spanish dance in moderate to fast triple time (3/8 or 3/4), danced by a couple with the accompaniment of a guitar and castanets. Fandangos are found in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro 1786, Gluck’s Don Juan 1761, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol/Spanish Capriccio 1887.