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Farruca compas question
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Ramon Amira
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 RE: Farruca compas question (in reply to rombsix)
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I don't know what you mean by "four beat cycle." Farruca is in straight 4/4 time. So there are four beats to a measure. To speak of a "four beat cycle" is to speak of a measure. Farruca has one of the most clearly defined compas in flamenco. 4/4 time – four beats to a measure, a strong marked accent on beats one and three.
It makes much more sense to think of and to understand Farruca in terms of a cycle of measures, rather than a cycle of beats. Farruca traditionally goes in a sequence of eight measures. When played in the most common key for Farruca – A Miinor - the first four measures alternate between E 7th and A Minor, the fifth measure goes to D Minor, the sixth measure back to A Minor, the seventh measure E 7th, and the eighth in A Minor.
You can sometimes interject a two measure rasgueado passage between falsetas, but the basic compas is in eight measures, or sometimes in a multiple of eight.
When danced, the alternating E 7th and A Minor will generally go longer than eight measures before going into the D Minor, which brings a section to a close.
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