The name of the music derives from the area in which it was developed, Malaga, Spain. Unlike the flamenco, the malaguena music is not normally used for dance.
The malaguena music is less well known than flamenco outside of Spain mainly because flamenco is associated with the accompanying dances.
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Moorish Influence On Malaguena
The Malagueña
"You cannot walk through a little town in the South of Spain without hearing a strange sound, between crying and chanting, which wanders out to you from behind barred windows and from among the tinkling bells of the mules.
The Malaguena, they call this kind of singing: but it has mo more to do with Malaga than the mosque at Cordova has to do with the soil on which it stands.
It is as Eastern as the music of tom-toms and gongs, and, like Eastern music, it is music before rhythm, music which comes down to us untouched by the invention of the modern scale, from an antiquity out of which plain chant is a first step toward modern harmony. And this Moorish music is, like Moorish architecture, an arabesque.
It avoids definite form just as the lines in stone avoid define form, it has the same endlessness, motion without beginning or end, turning upon itself in a kind of infinitely varied monotony.
The floriture of the voice are like those coils which often spring from a central point of ornament, to twist outward, as in a particular piece of very delicate work in the first mihrab in the mosque at Cordova.
In both ensemble is everything, and everything is patten. There is the same avoidance of emphasis, the same continuance on one level; no special part starts out for separate notice, as in Gothic architecture or Western music.
But the passion of this music is like no other passion; fierce, immoderate, sustained, it is like the crying of a wild beast in suffering, and it thrills one precisely because it seems to be so far from humanity, so inexplicable, so deeply rooted in the animal of which we are but one species.
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Flamenco Books For Further Information
Flamenco Guitar Method Volume 1: Book/CD/DVD Pack (Schott)
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Mel Bay Play Solo Flamenco Guitar with Juan Martin Book, CD, and DVD: Vol. 1
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Mel Bay presents The Keys to Flamenco Guitar, Volume 1
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Song of the Outcasts: An Introduction to Flamenco Hardcover with CD
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Flamenco Guitar Method Bk/Cd Stylistic Supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method (Hal Leonard Guitar Method (Songbooks))
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 12/25/2009)
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Brief Description of Malagueñas
Malagueñas is one of the traditional styles of flamenco, derived from earlier types of fandango from the area of Málaga, classified among the Cantes de Levante. Originally a folk-song type, it became a flamenco style in the 19th century. It is not normally used for dance, as it is generally interpreted with no regular rhythmic pattern, as a "cante libre". It has a very rich melody with virtuous flourishes and use of microtones. Its guitar accompaniment is normally played in open position first inversion giving E for the tonic, which can be transposed by using a capo.
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Flamenco is a style of music which is considered part of the culture of Spain, but is actually native to only one region: Andalusia. It is believed to have grown out of the fusion of Arabic, Andalusian, Sephardic, and Gypsy cultures prior to and after the Reconquest. It is also applied to the dance style performed to flamenco music. The origins of the term are unclear - the word Flamenco is not recorded until the 19th century.
Flamenco is the music of the Andalusian gypsies and played in their social community. Andalusian people who grew up around gypsies were also accepted as "flamencos" (Paco de LucÃa). Other regions, mainly Extremadura and Murcia, have also contributed to the development of flamenco, and many flamenco artists have been born outside Andalusia. Latin American and especially Cuban influences have also contributed, as evidenced in the dances of "Ida y Vuelta".
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