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Ricardo -> RE: Zapateado Characteristics?? (Mar. 11 2008 5:40:51)
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Basically it is the footwork music that relates to Tanguillo. Sort of like the escobilla section of an Alegrias dance. The compas is related mathematically, but it takes on a "feel" all its own in the context of dance, so has it's own appropriate music. (You would not play your normal alegrias falsetas under a dancers escobilla necessarily, there are some specific phrasing details that match better).
Tanguillo is 2/4 or 2 beat with a 6/8 feel, very "up beat" (2 and 5 of the 6 get accented). Zapateado, the guitar music anyway, is more "downbeat" 6/8 (1,4 accented), if that makes sense. My experience with dancers that do Zapateado, they do also a lot of "up beat" synchopations. Perhaps the guitar music evolved so "downbeat" to keep it grounded, not unlike the traditonal "escobillas" for Alegrias.
In modern terms, check out Vicente Amigo's "Vivencias Imaginadas". He deliberately programs his modern "tanguillo" before his modern "zapateado" so you can see how the music can feel very different when heard back to back. Pay attention the palmas and the feel they give, even though both pieces are basically 6/8 meter.
Ricardo
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