It's no stretch to say that every modern castanet player is basing their style (however many generations removed) on that of La Argentina. She was, by all accounts, an astonishing castanet player, and her style of playing became the definitive one. Essentially reinventing the entire genre, she brought Spanish folkloric dancing to the stage and rebirthed it as a fine art. La Argentina and the Modern Castanet StyleĪntonia Mercé y Luque (1890-1936), known as La Argentina, was a classically-trained ballet dancer who decided to leave ballet and explore Spanish traditional dance instead. Though many people associate the castanets with flamenco, they are not a traditional element of flamenco music or dance rather, the castanets are an integral part of folkloric Spanish dances, primarily Sevillanas and Escuela Bolera dance. The higher-pitched pair (known as "hembra," or "female") is traditionally held in the right hand and the lower-pitched pair (known as "macho," or "male") is traditionally held in the left hand. Castanets are always played in pairs, and each pair is tuned differently. Accomplished castanet players can make a variety of noises with the castanets, from a flat "click" to a warm roll.
The leather is doubled and the thumb is placed through it, and the pair of castanets then hangs freely from the thumb and is manipulated by the fingers and the palms. The modern castanet comprises a pair of shell-shaped flattened wooden clackers which are held together with a single loop of string or thin leather. The Andalusian word for castanets is "palillos." The Spanish word for castanets is castañuelas, derived from castaña, meaning "chestnut" or "hazel" - castanets were traditionally carved from these woods. They are traditionally made of hardwood (chestnut Spanish: castaño), although fibreglass is becoming increasingly popular.
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They are held in the hand and used to produce clicks for rhythmic accents or a ripping or rattling sound consisting of a rapid series of clicks. The instrument consists of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by a string. Castanets are a member of a very old family of musical instruments that has been found on every civilized continent, with some examples dating back 10,000 years. *Please note the many different musical forms of flamenco are referred to as a palo.Ĭastanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument used in Spanish, Kalo, Moorish,Ottoman, Italian, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music. This class will study the flamenco palo*, (To Be Announced in September), working with the meaning of the letras and polishing the choreography as well as improving our skills with using the upper body and core in flamenco expression.
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This level will explore how to develop more accuracy and speed in taconeo combinations, including latiguillo, as well as braceo with taconeo combinations and mastering advanced level vueltas (turns.) We will also continue to work with castanet technique.įlamenco IV Repertoire Intermediate level: This class is for students who have at least 3 years or more of flamenco experience. We will also continue to work with castanet technique.įlamenco IV Technique: This class is for students who have at least 3 years or more of flamenco experience. Our goal for this session is to improve our skills with floreo and braceo technique in various positions, build confidence in flamenco turns and build speed and accuracy in our heelwork combinations. Students are continuing to work on proper body posture, basic hand and arm movements, basic sounds of the feet with heelwork combinations, introduction to hand-clapping and rhythmic listening skills, and are currently working on the flamenco palo, Tangos, as well as the first copla of Sevillanas.įlamenco III Technique Advanced beginner: This class is for students who have at least 2 years or more of flamenco experience. Students will be introduced to proper body posture, basic hand and arm movements, basic sounds of the feet, introduction to hand-clapping, and will learn a short choreography with the focus on the palo of Tangos.įlamenco I.5 Technique: This class is for students who have at least 6 months or more of flamenco experience.
Flamenco I Technique: Beginning level: This class is for students who have 0-3 months of flamenco experience.
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