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Part 3b Voice type in flamenco
The quality of voice is of supreme importance in flamenco as it can imbue flamenco with one of its most important elements: “el quejio”. “El quejio” is perhaps best translated as a “cry of desperation” and often said to be one of the basic elements of the ”cante jondo”, that is, those palos which are [...]
Part 3a Characteristics of Cante Flamenco
There are perhaps two things which immediately seem to come to people’s minds on the first hearing of flamenco: unusual melodic lines and the timbre of the singer’s voice. The crystalline tone developed and favoured in the conservatory or in many types of popular music is not usually the type of voice favoured in flamenco.
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Scales the theory
I have finished the introductory page to scales. As yet, the page is only theoretical, but doing the research and understanding the information by giving practical application has proved very useful to me already. Armed with the theoretical knowledge from the theory, I have now gone onto write my own flamenco related scales, and these [...]
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Part 3: El cante – an introduction
The only person to proclaim himself a flamenco singer (”cantaor”) in the census initiated by king Carlos III in 1783 was the gypsy Tio Luis el de la Juliana. This allows us to surmise that the “cante” did not begin to really develop until the end of the XVIII century; despite constant searching on [...]
Jorge on 
Richard Sweeton on 
miguel on 
Klemen on 
Carlo on 
Gaylene Lea Barron on 
tomer on 
Xavier on 
Gerald on 
Tim Richards on 
Riccardo Ascani on 
1954: The First Anthology of Flamenco