roozbeh60 -> RE: Difference Between Solea in A and Solea in E (Oct. 23 2017 15:51:34)
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Are they different types of Soleas? If so how do you differenciate them by name as in to look them up? I'm pretty sure the one in A is not Solea Por Bulerias but just another variation of Solea? Here are examples of Solea in E (first video) and Solea in A (second video) that I'm talking about! The simple answer is that yes there are different types of solea, so it depends what you are referring to, cante, baile, or toque. In other words a singer could be singing solea de Alcala or Cadiz or Jerez, but the guitar might be playing "solea por buleria" and confuse the student as to what to call the song form at hand. So break it down first into three categories: Cante: There are tons of different types of solea. Only a few main ones are popular today, especially when sung for baile. To learn about each one visit www.canteytoque.es and look up styles of Solea. Some singers will actually mix different styles, rather than do the orthodox thing of stick with a single style such as Alcala or Andonda, or whatever. Even Bulerias por solea, of which there are only a few basic blue print styles, might get mixed into a performance of other solea types. To be clear, there is no song style called "Solea por buleria" as far as cante goes, regardless of the speed at which the song might be sung. For example in Jerez you might hear solea de Frijones 2 (as per the site linked above) sung in a buleria Juerga at very fast tempo. So for song it comes down to specific melodies and letras that might be associated. Baile: The dance is done notoriously slooooooooooow por solea, at least for the opening sections. The most typical letras sung are extremely exaggeratedly slowed down versions of solea Alcala, Serneta and Andonda. Tempos can be as low as 50 beats per minute or slower, setting up a HUGE challenge for the musicians to drive a strong feeling. For this reason, the vast majority of dance choreography is only done by guitarists "por Arriba" or in E, and so guitarist that play for dance often tend to develop very slow material in this key. This is regardless of the type of letras sung. Many solea dance solos with speed up after footwork to a normal tempo solea (around 120 or 130 bpm) or even faster. This section is normally referred to as "solea por buleria" probably the origin of this song form name. The guitar will stay in the same key of course but with a new tempo and driving compas, the feel and sound is very different than the slow section. YOu can't just simply speed up whatever you played slow, the feeling and specifics of notes and rhythms change. However, in old times THIS was the normal speed and feeling for solea in general. Letras typically sung here are Solea De jerez, Frijones and the like, but often times Buleria Larga is mixed in if more than one letra is needed. Hence a lot of confusion of why the dance is still called "Solea". Some dancers will dance "solea por buleria" as the complete solo, so no slow opening section, it just starts normal speed, and nothing is really different than the above section of a long Solea dance as described, singing and all, with the exception that the guitarist, needing none of that slow stuff, may opt to use the por medio key instead (solea in A). So now the concept of "solea por bulerias" as a song form becomes important as a way to describe the dance or guitar playing, and the singing may wrongly be referred to as "solea por buleria" as well. Both dance solos typically speed up into bulerias at the end, and the same stuff will be sung in bulerias regardless of the key the guitarist plays in. To make this all real clear, if a dancer wants to dance solea slow as her solo, and she hears a guitarist playing por medio in A, she might say to stop that and play in E.....for fear that the material most guitarists have in A is fast driving stuff like Solea por buleria, and will not have the slow tempo and weight needed that the Key of E seems to afford guitarists. This is where the musician mind and the dance mind might clash and whoever has seniority will be the boss. Toque: As hinted to above the guitar necessarily takes on different sound and feel when different tempos are required. So a guitarist playing solo will probably compose solos with this concept in mind....Solea por Arriba=slow stuff, por medio= fast stuff. And they might also label their solos differently for this reason, since there is no cante or baile to dictate so it is sort of arbitrary. However, a guitarist might deliberately compose interesting fast material for por Arriba, or extremely slow stuff por medio, so the labeling becomes about the tempo and feel. Finally, there might be elasticity to the tempo, and here again it is more typical to do that for Solea and NOT solea por buleria. In other words, take your solea por buleria and slow it down a bit and make it breath up and down rhythmically, and you have got a nice new solea. Hope that makes sense. Ricardo this was very helpful! I took some time to analyze this and you are spot on! I also noticed that solea por medio (in A) is also often used when there is a transition from Solea to Bulerias toward the end of the song. I've heard this a few times in the past, the same as how Tomatito goes from Seguiriyas to Bulerias when accompanying Cameron where both Palos are in A.. Also does it seem that the Soleas in A have a 'Happier' theme than the ones in E or is it just me?
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