found: Grovemusic.com WWW site, Feb. 7, 2003(under Spain, sec. II, 4: Traditional and popular music: Dance and instrumental music: The jota, regarded as primarily Aragonese, is nevertheless common in Navarre, Old and New Castile, Murcia and in Valencia (where the local variant is sufficiently differentiated to merit the name jota valenciana); it also occurs in local versions in most of the other Spanish regions. The jota is invariably in rapid triple time, with four-bar phrases. Its core section [is] called copla, whose text is an octosyllabic quatrain)
found: New Harvard dict. mus.(Jota: A genre of song and dance especially characteristic of Aragón, but widely disseminated through the Spanish peninsula. Its existence cannot be firmly documented before the second half of the 17th century. As a quintessentially Spanish form of folk music, it has often been taken over into art music)
found: Garland encyc. world mus.:v. 8, p. 594 (Spain's dances include the jota, the "mother dance" of the culture, with many variants; it has an instrumental introduction, followed by octosyllabic quatrains of coplas interspersed with refrains and instrumental interludes)
found: Baker's dict. mus.(jota: A national dance song of northern Spain, dating to the 17th century)
found: Web. 3(Jota: a Spanish folk dance in 3/4 time performed by a man and a woman to intricate castanet and heel rhythms; the music of the jota)
