 With romantic, often melancholic lyrics sung in a lilting meter, it remains "the obligatory dance at all rural fiestas" ("Diccionario de la Musica Labor", 2305).Ginastera's setting enhances the sway of the meter with a syncopated accompanying pattern, and while the vocal melody maintains an F major tonality, the accompaniment alternates between F major and D minor in a manner characteristic of bimodal Argentine folk music.In some passages "there is considerable use of extended tertian and polytonal arpeggiation underneath the melodic line" (Wallace, 86).