 This setting exhibits liberal use of hemiola, the result of alternation between and meters.The harmonization remains within the C major tonality of the repeating couplet, with dissonant embellishing and passing tones.Although Ginastera dedicated the five songs of opus 10 to the nationalistic Argentine composer Carlos Lopez Buchardo and his wife Brigida, the opening couplet of "Chacarera" ("A mì me gustan las ñatas y una ñata me ha tocado," or "I like beautiful snub-nosed girls, and one of them has caught my eye") suggests that Ginastera may also have had his new bride Mercedes de Toro (whose nickname was "Ñata") in mind, perhaps composing these pieces as a wedding gift, following Schumann's precedent of composing his opus 25 song cycle, "Myrthen", some scholars believe, as a gift to his bride, Clara Wieck.