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Category:	Music
Created:	Nov 17, 2004
Type:	Public
Members:	453
Owner:	Diana Cuellar
Language:	Spanish
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Flamenco is a folk art from Spain: in fact, a whole culture. Furthermore, it is indigen, not to all Spain but to just one part of it - the province of Andalusia. Historically, it has always been the musical outlet of the poor and oppressed. It passed on by tradition which the individual artist uses as the basis for his own variations.
Flamenco is a tripartite art, involving singing, dance and the guitar simultaneously - as well as rhytmic punctuation (by hand-claps and other methods) that is considered an art form in its own right. There are hundreds of different types of pieces within flamenco, which have generic names such as seguiriyas, soleares, alegr�as, malague�as, fandangos, zapateado, ronde�a, etc. They are defined by characteristic melodic, rhytmic, and harmonic structures; each has a characteristic mood and many are regional variants of essentially similar forms.