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Castanets are also used by singers and dancers in the flamenco genre, especially in some subgenres of it (Siguiriya, and Fandango-influenced ones), and in other dances in Andalusia/South Spain, such as the Sevillanas folk dance and escuela bolera, a balletic dance form.
La Argentinita performs a castanet solo with orchestra accompaniment. El amor brujo is a play that belongs to the Colección de Danzas Clásicas y Españolas composed by Manuel de Falla in 1944. It was published in Madrid in 1996 by the publishing house Sonifolk. La Argentinita provides an orchestral accompaniment with castanets and tapping ...
La Argentina. Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), also known as La Argentina, [1] was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer who created the neoclassical style of Spanish dance. [2]
Her training included mastering all branches of this dance: the bolero school, the folkloric, the classical, the stylized, and the flamenco dance. Her contribution was the "innovative idea of introducing castanets into dance, with Italian and Spanish baroque music", [1] an idea that she derived from her work with Domingo José Samperio, who invented "concerted crotalogy".
Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]) is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.
verse of cante flamenco, as against the cuple of a (non-flamenco) canto coraje a way of performing that shows impetuosity or daring (lit. "courage") corrido ballad, or also a romance corte the way the singer ends a musical phrase crótalo Phoenician and Roman form of castanets cuadro a flamenco troupe
The ladies wave their mantón , or decorative shawl, while the gentlemen keep a brisk pace with bamboo castanets. The music is an alternating fast and slow tempo similar to Spanish airs which accompany dances like flamenco, jota, bolero, seguidilla, and fandango.
José Luis de Udaeta París (27 May 1919 in Barcelona, Spain – 14 September 2009 in Sant Feliu de Guixols) was a Spanish dancer, castanet player and choreographer.His first performances in classical and modern ballet were made under a pseudonym, being the root for his development as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and castanet virtuoso and author for more than 50 years.