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  Flamenco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
First, a cante may be categorized according to wheter it follows a strict rythmic pattern ("compas" or follows a free rythm ("libre") The cantes with compas fit one of four compas patterns.
Flamenco cante consists of a number of traditional (and not-so-traditional) forms, with characteristic rhythmic and harmonic structures.
The cante jondo, called the mother of flamenco, consists of 12 beats, with accents on the 3rd, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th beats.
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 Flamenco Music
Recurrent themes of Cante Jondo are the terror of death and the pain of love...
True, Cante Jondo can be danced, with duende and the gracia of the "pena negra" etched on the dancer's face and governing his or her movements and pasture.
And yet, there is a "theatre" to Cante Jondo, but the stage is usually a dirt or linoleum floor, the audience is rarefy over 20 or so in number, and the cues are usually governed by the ingestion of wine and the resultant "duende".
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 What is Flamenco?
Later the songs were accompanied by flamenco guitar (toque), rhythmic hand clapping (palmas), rhythmic feet stamping and dance (baile).
The traditional flamenco guitar is made of Spanish cypress and spruce, and is lighter in weight and a bit smaller than a classical guitar, to give the output a 'sharper' sound.
Two of Lorca's most important poetic works, Poema del Cante Jondo and Romancero Gitano, show Lorca's fascination with flamenco.
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 reVIEWs: O'Leary
Andalusia harbored Islam in the Middle Ages: oud-music, whose techniques reach as far east as Pakistan, had its presence there, a presence resounded in the cante jondoö"deep song";or better, cante moroöthe "Moorish song" that registers an African presence as well, and so evokes the other side of the Mediterranean.
The effect is to enhance what is already present in Mackey's reading and propose a new possible meaning.
As Mackey reads lines about a flamenco singer as "burr-throat/ threnodist..." and about being "In a dark room/ discussing duende," Hartigan employs a set of Chinese opera drums, clappers, and cymbals toward establishing a dramatic, Noh-like ambiance.
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 Learn to Dance - Flamenco
Flamenco is a song, music and dance style originating from the gypsies in Andalusia, Spain.
Later the songs were accompanied by guitar (toque), hand clapping (palmas) and dance (baile); the toque and baile are also often found without the cante, although the song remains at the heart of the flamenco tradition.
Some people suggest an Arabic origin for the name, but it seems more likely that it is of Spanish origin and originally meant Flemish.
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 Federico García Lorca
The crucial moment in Lorca's literary career was folk music festival Fiesta de Cante Jondo in 1922, where he found inspiration for his work from the traditions of folk and gypsy music.
POEMA DEL CANTE JONDO (1931, Deep Song), written already in 1921, and PRIMER ROMANCERO GITANO (1924-1927), published in 1928, made García Lorca the poet of Andalusia and its gipsy subculture.
LA ZAPATERA PRODIGIORA, 1930 - The Shoemaker's Marvelous Wife - Ruusu ja naskali - Runoelma cante jondosta
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /fglorca.htm   (1973 words)

  
 Flamenco Guitar Sheet Music, Tab Books with CDs, Videos and DVDs at Chord Melody Guitar Music
are often used to accompany the cante por Alegrias.
In-depth study of the accompaniment to the cante por Alegrias.
Gypsies, Arabs, Horse Knives, Cante Jondo, Flamenco Puro, Malaguenas, Seguiriyas, Alegrias, Solea, Anda-
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