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Tradiciones

• Flamenco is organised into palos — soleá, siguiriya, alegrías, bulerías — each with its own compás, mode and emotional register.
• The twelve-beat compás of soleá and bulerías carries accents that do not fall evenly, which is why the form resists a single European time signature.
• Cante, toque and baile — voice, guitar and dance — developed together; the guitar grew from accompaniment into solo repertoire mainly in the twentieth century.
• Nuevo flamenco is the opening of that tradition to other instruments and harmonies — which is where the cello enters.
• Beyond Andalusia the peninsula carries Galician, Basque, Catalan and Castilian musics with their own instruments and metres.

Instrumentos

• Guitarra flamenca — lighter and shallower than a classical guitar, with faster response
• Cajón — box drum adopted from Peru in the 1970s and now standard
• Palmas — hand clapping, played as a full percussion part with sorda and fuerte tones
• Cello — the IGUNO voice set against the guitar
• Gaita galega and pandeireta — the bagpipe and frame drum of the Atlantic north

Música de aquí

▶El mundo en músicaNuevo Flamenco20261:03:10

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