Jota (English spelling)

Japanese: ホタ（英語表記）jota

Folk dance and song from northern Spain. The Aragonese version is especially famous and is called Jota Aragonesa. It is accompanied by guitars and tambourines, and usually plays a tonic and dominant note every four bars. It has a fast 3/4 rhythm, and is danced by a single or multiple men and women in pairs, with castanets in hand, and expresses courtship through vigorous leaps and turns, and contains many comical elements. In the Valencian Jota, cante (song) is also sung, and the rhythm is more detailed than in the Aragonese Jota, and it is danced by a large group in various formations. There is a theory that the name Jota was named after Aben Jot, an Arabian minstrel who first created the dance in the 12th century, but there is little evidence to support this.

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Japanese:

スペイン北部の民俗舞踊および民謡。特にアラゴン地方のものはホタ・アラゴネサとも呼ばれて有名。ギター，タンバリンなどで伴奏され，普通は4小節ごとに主音と属音を奏する。3拍子の速いリズムで，男女一対または多数の男女が対になってカスタネットを手に踊り，激しい跳躍と回転のうちに求愛を表わす舞踊で，コミカルな要素を多分に含んでいる。バレンシア地方のホタではカンテ (歌) もうたわれ，アラゴン地方のホタに比べてリズムが細かく，さまざまな隊形を作って大勢で踊られる。語源は，12世紀アラビアの吟遊詩人アベン・ホット Aben Jotが踊りはじめたことから，彼の名をとってホタとしたという説もあるがその根拠は薄い。

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