The illustrious Falla, who studied the question attentively, affirms that the gypsy seguiriya is the song type of the group " cante jondo" and declares that it is the only song on our continent that has been conserved in its pure form, because of its composition and its style and the qualities it has in itself, the primitive songs of the oriental people. It is also a rare example of primitive song, the oldest of all Europe, where the ruins of history, the lyrical fragment eaten by the sand, appear live like the first morning of its life. 1 Surprisingly to many Westerners, these are not songs of celebration but of intense grief. It is the oldest and purest version of the flamenco tradition. The " cante jondo" approaches the rhythm of the birds and the natural music of the black poplar and the waves it is simple in oldness and style. The cante jondo was the song of the Spanish Gypsies of Andalusia. The following is translated from the conference notes by Lorca: In 1931, Garcia Lorca presented a conference devoted to keeping the rich tradition of the cante jondo alive. The name means 'deep song' in Spanish, with hondo ('deep') spelled with J (Spanish pronunciation: ) as a form of eye dialect, because traditional Andalusian pronunciation has retained an aspirated H lost in other forms of Spanish. El nmero 1 se emiti el da 14 de mayo de 1959, a travs de Radio Jerez, con la presentacin de Manuel Fernndez Pea. With roots in Arabic instruments, Sephardic ritual, Byzantine liturgy, native folk songs, and, above all, the rhythms of Gypsy life, deep song is characterized by intense and. La revista estaba escrita y dirigiga por Juan de la Plata. Cante jondo, deep song, comes from a musical tradition that developed among peoples who fled into the mountains in the 15th century to escape the Spanish Inquisition. Lorca had evidently used the title Poema del Cante Jondo for a 1921 collection of poems, although he did not publish it for ten years. Cante jondo (Andalusian Spanish: ) is a vocal style in flamenco, an unspoiled form of Andalusian folk music. Archivo de 'Cante Jondo', revista de divulgacin semanal de la Seccin de Flamencologa del Centro Cultural Jerezano.
Cante jondo series#
The result was the memorable series of flamenco performances held at the Alhambra during June. It is generally considered that the common traditional classification of flamenco music is divided into three groups of which the deepest, most serious forms are known as cante jondo. Many classical musicians, cultural and literary figures, including the young poet Federico García Lorca, participated in the program. Cante jondo (Andalusian Spanish: knte hndo) is a vocal style in flamenco, an unspoiled form of Andalusian folk music. In 1922 the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla led in the organization of the Concurso de Cante Jondo for Granada. It is generally considered that the common traditional classification of flamenco music is divided into three groups of which the deepest, most serious forms are known as " cante jondo". This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Ĭante jondo ("deep song") is a vocal style in flamenco.