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COOL! It's siguiriya rhythm, but the beginning can trick you as the intro is played 4/4. During the singing listen the the percussion, the accents are 8, 10, 12, 3, 6. Think in tempo ca. 100bpm.
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Yeah that's right, I love it when they play around with rhythms like that, like Pitingo's "Soulerias". You can often hear modern Bulerias with accents in 2's.
Seguidilla is a lighter form of folklore dance from which the Sevillanas eventually originated.
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REgarding the word: Siguiriya seguiriya seguirilla siguirilla seguidilla
All different miss spellings of the same word. 2 kinds of song forms, one is flamenco, the other is classical spanish. Panaderos that is famous played by Paco written by Esteban de sanlucar, is based on the classical song form.
Likewise Solea is short for Soleares which is a miss spelled Soledades. Also you have the same name for different song forms from latin america like Tango, Rumba, Guajira, Etc. Colombiana confuses people on youtube for sure!! People try to show some connection of the word to the different musics (as if some where hidden inside the music is some connection) but it is just a name IMO. Don't let the miss spelling or double usage bother you.
About Pele. The subdivision IS rumba accent, but it is double or quadruple time over top a very slow siguiriyas. So 6 Rumba compases=one compas of Siguiriyas. Only one accent is displaced (count 3 of the 4th rumba compas is accented). The intro they fool you into thinking it is Rumba because of the subdivision, and only when the palmas and cante enter are you aware of the underlying accent pattern. Cool idea. Also it is an example of true and pure modal music....the harmony or chord that Vicente plays NEVER Changes....it just drones on the C# for the entire song.
Likewise Solea is short for Soleares which is a miss spelled Soledades.
I´ve been told something else. Soleá is when you sing all letras from one distinct region in one song. (Alcalá, Triana, Cadiz etc) Soleares is when you sing letras from different regions in one song. I´ve never analyzed it, so I just say that its what I´ve been told and lots of things have been said.
Likewise Solea is short for Soleares which is a miss spelled Soledades
i know this is gonna seem picky, but.... isn't "soleares" the phonetic spelling of the andaluz pronunciation of "soledades" rather than a mis-spelling?
i would guess the flamenco form has always been written as "soleares" becuase noone who sung it or played it ever actually pronounced it "soledades"
same way we actually write "isn't it" and "wouldn't it" instead of "is not it" and "would not it" because noone actually says it that way
Mark is correct. It is actually not a misspelling. It is the correct spelling of a mispronunciation. Gypsies in Andalusia never pronounce hard consonants. They just drop them and say whatever is left. So yes, "Soleares" is simply a mispronunciation of "Soledades." Anyone can try it for themselves – just say "Soledades" and leave off the two "Ds".
So yes, "Soleares" is simply a mispronunciation of "Soledades."
That's how I hear it too. It's not just the gitanos, though.
It may also sound like "sol-ee-ahh-ray" in some parts, as they drop the "s" as well. As in "buenas tardes" - shortened to the universal greeting of "buena"
about solea....would make sense but going back to the old labeling of records issue, in practice you will see a mix of cantes in a performance called "solea" and in the baile too of course.
about phonetic spelling....um, that is still a miss spelling. If wee all wayees spehllld things fuh net tickly wee wuud never miss spehll ehneee thing.
i just can't resist this anymore, "miss spelling" is a mis-spelling!!
about phonetic spelling, there's no problem with "can't" in the above, or "there's" in this sentence, they aren't (whoops, there's another one!) mis-spellings, they are correct spellings of phonetic "there is", "can not", "are not" etc. and "isn't" and even "ain't" are other examples, same way as everyone knows that soleares and solea are dialect spellings of soledades and soledad..
I'm intrigued by some of the lookalike "real photo" avatars here.
Mark looks like Bono Doit looks like the young Bob Dylan Kozz looks like Joe Brown (from Joe Brown and the Bruvvers) Escribano makes me think of that big tall guy from "Madness"
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People try to show some connection of the word to the different musics (as if some where hidden inside the music is some connection) but it is just a name IMO. Don't let the miss spelling or double usage bother you. 
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