Originally Posted by bob_32_116

I love Bolero, and have done ever since i first heard it, which was as musical accompaniment to a show on TV - think it was Disney - that showed a series of time-lapse (sped up) videos of plants growing and flowers blooming.

To appreciate Bolero you should not think of it as a conventional piece, like a song with a structure. It has more in common with ambient music such as produced by Brian Eno or Klaus Schulze. The well-known part of Tubular Bells where the instruments enter one by one is a similar kind of piece - repetition, but with little changes introduced each time the main motif is repeated.