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Cueca Chilena Widespread throughout Chile, the is tradi tionally performed by an ensemble including sing e music accompanies a non embraced couple dance depict ing, through swirled handkerchiefs and bodily mo e e text is composed of an octosyllabic quatrain, a(Spanish poetic form) and two rhymed erses (); this ed in its sung form. In the early rst century se eral changes ha e added complexity to the s musical performance and dancing practices. e history and de elopment of the Chilean is intimately connected with urban and rural musi cal life, the music industry and Chile s particular sociopolitical context in that change and continu ected strongly by symbolism and discourse in. To understand fully the introduction, dissemination and de elop ment of during the twentieth century, it is also necessary to examine its immediate predecessor the which represents an early stage of the manifestation of social and musical issues contained in the Chilean.