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A Tentative view on Solea por Buleria
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Ron.M
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A Tentative view on Solea por Buleria
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Esteemed Forumites, This is backed up with no research, it's just an idea for your amusement and debate. I've heard that SpB is... 1. Speeded up Solea in A key. 2. Slowed down Buleria. 3. Solea in A played to end in Bulerias. (Solea for Bulerias) 4. Soleares in Alegrias tempo with Soleares chords. I think both 1 and 2 are out IMO. 3 sounds plausible, but I can't say I've heard much SpB finishing with Bulerias. Sabicas does it in his SpB solo on the Camen Amaya LP, but to be honest, I've heard more Traditional Soleares end in Bulerias than SpB. 4 This is certainly true, but doesn't explain why it's known as Soleares por Bulerias (or Bulerias por Soleares) rather than Soleares por Alegrias. OK...a possible explanation for your speculation (and scorn LOL!). Take this rhythm.. (I'll try to avoid numbers) Rhythm A ************ Rhythm B ************ Now tap each out. I guess most folk would hear A as Soleares and B as Bulerias? Now if you take a standard SpB compás and divide it into half beats, giving 24 (half) beats and tap your foot to rhythm B (twice to cover the 24 beats), you can hear how it fits in nicely with a lot of SpB falsetas. It's a little more difficult with cante since the cantaor will sometimes stretch a note a bit as in Soleares, but the structure is there IMO. It doesn't work well with traditional Soleares (in E). Therefore, my idea is that SpB is in fact a "hybrid" form made from both palos, with the Bulerias rhythm running through it at twice the speed, which gives this palo it's bouncy feel. Hence Solea por Bulerias or Bulerias por Solea. As usual with polyrhythms, the performer will often switch from one to the other to fit his needs. Just a bit of speculation! cheers Ron
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Date Sep. 27 2005 9:02:05
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Ricardo
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From: Washington DC
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RE: A Tentative view on Solea por Bu... (in reply to Ron.M)
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Just listen to some different cante. Solea with the guitar playing in the medio key, and specific "solea por bulerias" or "bulerias por solea". You will notice the guitar does pretty much the same thing, but the SINGING is different. Listen to Zambo's Gloria Bendita. He sings both Solea accompanied por medio, and Solea por bulerias as different tracks. They are very different even though the guitar work is similar. There are many forms that the guitar does the same thing as whatever typical palo, but the melody is very different. Cana or Polo vs Solea for example. Dancing is just about the rhythm. Every dance of solea or solea por bulerias will end up in bulerias at the end. Solea, Solea por bulerias, and bulerias are 3 different song forms, even if you tried to perform them ALL at the same tempo. A dance will mix song forms as the tempo changes. The truth is, it DOES feel kind of difficult to drive the super slow rhythm required by some dancers, if you play solea in the medio key. Not sure why, but arriba works better very slow. Ricardo
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Date Sep. 27 2005 15:46:02
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