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Ricardo -> RE: Sevillanas Compas Problem (Aug. 20 2013 1:52:15)
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The 4th Sevillanas has a correct length but maybe she didn't feel compatible with the melody.
the third sevillanas has the footwork call and response, so this melody works best for the 3rd instead of the 4th. BUT....the dancer is still wrong to suggest this doesn't work, it works fine. And yes he accidentally repeats the E phrygian one a 4th time...again, any pro dancer would simply say "wooops, only 3x thanks, the rest are fine".
A funny thing is I also made up my own sevillanas that were off length (in my first weeks of playing for dancers), because my model was wrong. I used Paco and Modrego's duet of lorca's 18h century sevillanas. The dancer I showed them to corrected me simply saying I did too many strums between coplas. Later it made sense, but I was always baffled why Paco and Modrego did that. I think for track timing length to fill up an LP was the reason.
Later on I noticed several quierky sevillanas that were off. I think it is a game for flamencos to sort of stretch em out. A dancer friend of mine organized a party called "sala rociera" where students could come and dance sevillanas for hours, both to live music and ipod. We compiled a huge set list of sevillanas and for fun at the end we put some in we knew were "off" so all the dancers would be confused at the end of the night. [8D] One of my all time favorites is Vicente Amigo and el Pele on the album Canto.
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