German Art

Posted April 30, 2012 By admin

German Art

Amazing Information About the Music and Dance Form Popular as The Flamenco

Music is a main type of art that uses sound as its technique; elements of music are pitch, melody, harmony, tempo and rhythm. Music has a vital role in many country’s culture; it has been used for entertainment, religious expression, and a lot more.

Spain is a country abundant with a lot of classes of music, as extraordinary as the different types of architecture, paintings, and sculptures that they have produced over the years. After sometime, the Visigoths came, an East Germanic tribe, came after the Jews, then the Moors; these series of several different influences has resulted to Spain’s diverse musical styles and form. To deeply enjoy Spain’s art and music, you have to travel to Spain and experience it for yourself, however you first need to understand and be able to talk some basic Spanish language, and the easiest way to achieve that is to search for websites like Rocket Spanish which offer basic Spanish lessons as well as basic Spanish cultural lessons. Rocket Spanish is a Computer Assisted Language Learning that can help you speak Spanish fluently.

A popular music that’s from Spain is Flamenco which several people believe is widely known everywhere in Spain. However, Flamenco is only known in one area; Flamenco come from Andalusia, an autonomous community in Spain and considered as the second largest in terms of land area in Spain. Because Spain’s music has been influenced by different countries, their music is different from region to region.

Flamenco came from the Andalusian regions and unlike to what is known today, it used to be only famous in the Andalusian regions and nowhere else in Spain. The rapid steps and transitions as well as the loud, fancy foot works distinguishes the Flamenco apart as a dance form. Unfortunately, this doesn’t change the fact that the beginnings of this musical and dance form is all but missing.

Tracing the origins of Flamenco, you will be led to a turbulent time, wherein many people have prejudices against the lower levels of society which are the Gypsies who have a big mark on the origins of Flamenco. Studies also shows that there’s a connection of gypsy dance culture and the descendants of Moorish music in the 8^th century until 17^th century in the ancestry of Flamenco; still many also believe that apart from gypsy dance and Moorish music, there is also influence of music from Egypt, India, and the Byzantine church which played a big part in shaping this art form. It is also quite unfortunate that since Flamenco came from what was then noted as the lower class society, historians and government officials of Spain saw no reason to record and preserve the tradition of that cultural class that started and supported the Flamenco. Another reason is that during the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, Jews, Muslims, and the Gitanos were persecuted; and because they were poor they did not have proper education and did not know how to write, so they preserved the music through oral traditions.

What’s really amazing about the Flamenco is that it won over all the hardships; despite the troubled history that it had, it lasted through time. In fact, it did not just remain in history but it became famous and really grown into a widely studied music and dance style until today.

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