Flamenco is an individualistic folk art, a genuine Southern art form, which was mainly originated by Andalusian gypsies. It exists in 3 forms: El cante, song, el baile, dance and guitarrra, guitar playing. Its roots also are with Arabs, Spanish Jews and socially outcasted Christians. The flamenco essence is song, which is usually accompanied by guitar and improvised dance. Complex rhythmic patterns and sophisticated footwork differs from other European dance forms. The word "flamenco" has been questioned
Historia del Flamenco - Spanish Essay La música flamenca empezó con una voz y unas palmas, y más tarde se incorporó la guitarra. Es sólo en este siglo cuando se introdujo el zapateo. Hoy en día, las tres principales herramientas del flamenco son el cante, la guitarra y el baile. Casi todos los estilos o palos flamencos pueden interpretarse con o sin baile, habiendo bailes sin cante y temas puramente vocales, "a cappela". Hoy, el flamenco tiene muchas caras y es ejecutado de múltiples
What makes flamenco dancing different from other dancing? Flamenco has been around for many years and has spread all over the world. It became very popular over time, the Ages it went through helped it develop to the beauty it is today. All the Ages are important and each has a significant event that progressed the dancing and improved it. There are also many different types of flamenco dancing and settings, each having a unique form of being. Flamenco dancing is different from other dancing because
Jasmine Bryson Jim Watson HUMA 1153 15 April 2018 El Mundo de la Salsa Caleña My experience at the Hispanic Flamenco Ballet concert in Houston, Texas was absolutely phenomenal! At the concert, I learned all about the Latin American countries and their different cultures. For every Latin country, they displayed a short slideshow explaining their culture and the roots it derived from. After the slideshow, dancers came out dressed as if they were in that particular country and performed a cultural
DANCE INVESTIGATION Spanish Flamenco and Indian Classical Kathak Dance The Indian Classical Kathak dance and the Spanish Flamenco have striking similarities even though the location and culture of their origins greatly differ. HISTORICAL CONTEXT ORIGIN Kathak (Sanskrit translation: ‘Katha’- story; ‘Katthaka’- story-teller) can be traced to as far back as the 3rd century and is one of the eight Classical dances in India. It originated in Northern India -Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar-Pradesh
Flamenco dancing is a passionate dance derived from the old gypsy dances of southern Spain. It is a very emotional and expressive dance. The dancers, bailaores and bailaoras, lose themselves in the music and become one with the song, as they dance you can see their faces contort with the emotion. Flamenco is no one style, it can be fiery and fast or slow and mournful. Flamenco represents 3 unified elements: song dance and music. According to www.classicalguitarmidi.com/history/flamenco It has historically
passion and pride over how garlic is an important part of the food history of his country. Afterwards he is shown singing and dancing flamenco, a form of Spanish folk music, and garlic is everywhere he even has a necklace with a garlic charm. In addition to this later on in the film he is seasoning meat of course with garlic and other spices; when he is doing this flamenco music is playing in the background and the rhythm of his knife or cooking instrument follows the rhythm of the music. I was captivated
'primitive' obviously overlooks the extremely skillful use of the thumbs, which many a professional today might well learn." Most artist viewed Flamenco guitar playing as an accompaniment to a song or a dancer, and it wasn't considered glamorous if you're not accompanying a singer or dancer, until El Barbero (1840-1910) turned a new chapter for Flamenco Guitar when he got the opportunity to showcase his musicality by...
Exploring Different Styles of Popular Music In this project, I aim to explore the different styles of popular music that have been successful from the 1960s to the present in Spain, why they have been popular, where they originated from, their history and what the music is actually like. To find out a type of music's origins, it is sometimes helpful to know where the country is to find out where influences could have come from, and even a certain amount about the country's history. So here
spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” No where is this quote more applicable than in flamenco dancers. Flamenco is a musical tradition and art form from the Andalusia region of Southern Spain. Original records of the flamenco date back to Jose Cadalso’s 1774 book, Las Cartas Marruecas, although the actual Andalusian musical style is much older. There are four main parts of the Flamenco; singing, guitar playing, dancing, and “hell-raising” or handclapping and foot stomping. The music
El Camino Real ……………………………………………………………………. Alfred Reed In El Camino Real unity and variety are exemplified through the use of dynamics, timbre and pitch. Based on a series of Spanish flamenco chord progression, El Camino Real is divided into three sections. The first and last sections are inspired by the Spanish Dance Jota. The first and last sections exhibit very loud dynamics, which is achieved by the different levels of volume one hears from the instruments. The middle section is inspired
A self-described “world music singer”, Yasmin Levy combines modern Spanish flamenco, the Ladino language of Sephardic Jewish people, and Persian and Turkish music in her music and has brought awareness to a the dying musical genre and Ladino language. Widely unknown to most audiences, Judeo-Spanish, commonly known as Ladino, is an ancient form of Spanish spoken by the Sephardic Jews who fled Spain in the fifteenth century. Over the last five hundred years the language has absorbed aspects of Arabic
Isaac Albéniz was a nationalist composer, and one of the greatest composers Spain has ever produced. Among the many musicologists who have researched and written about the music of Albéniz, and the many pianists who have had occasion to comment on it, there is universal agreement regarding the artistic merit of his magnum opus, Iberia. Its rich harmonic vocabulary, rhythmic complexity, extensive dynamic range, and the ambitiousness of its architectural design are indeed praiseworthy; and in most
inspiration to many other poets. Lorca wrote Poema del cante jondo in the attempt to approximate language through his poems, and music through methods to make the writing rhythmic. He also wanted to sanitise music from a very ancient tradition known as the flamenco, which used to mainly take place in brothels. He saw it as corrupted and wanted to give it that sense of purity back. In one of his lectures, Lorca describes the origins of the Cante Jondo. These poems originally songs coming from India were brought
The history of famous flamenco dancers are known to be influence to others dancers today. Carmen Amaya was a gypsy dancer that developed to be marvelous female flamenco dancer in the twentieth century (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). She was born in Somorrostro in Barcelona in November 2, 1913 which she lived in a desolate gypsy neighborhood (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). At the age of four, Carmen started dancing in taverns and bars with her father. She was also inspired and influence by her family who were
The Flamenco dance performance I went to watch took place in a restaurant located inside Hotel Albuquerque. The restaurant has a very unique setting. The people can enjoy amazing flamenco dance performances while also have great Mexican food. The restaurant was fairly dark focusing all to the bright and colorful stage. There were total of five performers; the dancers were Tacha, Bailaoresevarez Encinias, & Giovanna Hinojos, the vocalist was Vicente Griego and the Guitarist was Calvin Hazen. The Flamenco
Samurai Flamenco is a Superhero, comedy-drama released during the Fall 2013 anime line-up. Playing out like an anime version of the movie Kick-Ass except even more ridiculous, the shows constant switching in tones and arcs as the story progresses, as Richard Eisenbeis states “…depending on how the series so far is interpreted, it's either brilliant or terrible—and I can't seem to decide which.” (Eisenbeis). Samurai Flamenco, despite this, shows the audience as they follow the journey of Masayoshi
Spain is a country of long time tradition in which people work hard to continue on with a culture they created long ago. Spain is a very colorfully cultured country with many famous and important traditions which include bullfighting, the art of flamenco dancing and La Siesta. One of the most important parts of Spanish culture is bullfighting, according to USA today’s David Thyberg bullfighting is undenieably a link to the Spanish culture, in fact bullfighting has been around since the time of the
as I am an avid fan of flamenco music and observed his previous performances on his website prior to his concert. Vicente Amigo was born in Guadalcanal, a small village in Seville, Spain on March 25th, 1967. Vicente grew up and continues to live in Cordoba, Spain as well as Andalusia. Vicente studied the guitar from a young age under greats like Rafael Rodriguez Fernandez and Juan Muñoz Exposito. Since then, Vicente has become a Grammy-winning guitarist and modern flamenco master. In his music, Vicente
has five songs, called ‘So What’, ‘Freddie Freeloader’, ‘Blue in Green’, ‘All Blues’ and ‘Flamenco Sketches’. Since its release on August 17, 1959, Kind of Blue has been regarded by many critics as Davis's