Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A musical instrument similar to a large concertina, especially popular in Latin America.
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- noun music A small
Latin American accordion played withbuttons .
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- noun a type of concertina popular in South America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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WAS: The bandoneon is the button accordion that tango master Astor Piazzolla brought to the forefront.
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MICHELE NORRIS, host: The bandoneon is the instrument that defines Argentina's tango music.
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"Addio" was pretty much an improvisation orchestrated for the bandoneon and string quintet.
Joseph Vella: Interview: Vince Mendoza (Jazz Composer Extraordinaire) Joseph Vella 2011
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We recorded it in New York with Argentinean bandoneon wiz Hector del Curto.
Joseph Vella: Interview: Vince Mendoza (Jazz Composer Extraordinaire) Joseph Vella 2011
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Tango Fire have established themselves as one of Argentina's top exports, a crack company of tango specialists that includes three world champions among its 10 dancers, plus accompaniment from celebrated tango band Quatrotango piano, violin, bandoneon and double bass and singer Jesus Hidalgo.
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It was a great opportunity to write in a chamber music setting, leaving space for the bandoneon to improvise.
Joseph Vella: Interview: Vince Mendoza (Jazz Composer Extraordinaire) Joseph Vella 2011
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He points out that the bandoneon, an instrument similar to the accordion, but with buttons rather than keys, came from Germany, but that skilled Argentine musicians made its mournful sound the signature of the tango.
In Soccer-Mad Argentina, the National Sport Is a Lame Duck 2010
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(Soundbite of song, "Tango Square") EYRE: The bandoneon, with its unique timbre and expressiveness, was created in Germany, but it soon became inseparable from the sexy new dance music emerging from the bars and bordellos of Buenos Aires.
Gotan Project: An International Spin On Argentina's Tango 2010
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But from the first notes of the distinctive button accordion the bandoneon there's no mistaking the presence of tango.
Gotan Project: An International Spin On Argentina's Tango 2010
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Accompanied by Paquito D'Rivera, saxophones and clarinet; Gustavo Bergalli, trumpet; Nicolas Ledesma, piano; Abel Rogantini, piano; Daniel Piazzolla, drums and Michael Zisman, bandoneon.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Grapes of Wrath, Pablo Aslan 2010
MaryW commented on the word bandoneon
From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:
Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), p. 116September 4, 2016