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The fandangos de la Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche

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The Fandango, one of the styles of flamenco, a musical form characteristic of Spanish folklore. The beat of Fangangos de Huelva is 3 for 4 and more Flemish to mark this palilleo bar is doing, sounding fist for time 1 and open their fingers rhythmically progressive for the times 2 and 3. Los Fandangos de Huelva are divided by counties: Huelva city and surroundings, and Andévalo Alosno and High Sierra. Among these, there are various styles, such as Encinasola and Almonaster la Real.

Apparently, it is the High Sierra's Fandangos of which have survived better. Dance, slow beat, sexy letters, usually occur in groups and are linked to specific holidays, like the Virgin of Flowers, Las Cruces and St. Eulalia, all of uncertain date, although they could be traced back to medieval times.

For many Encinasola's Fandango is the most beautiful in Huelva. It is a song of great simplicity, without ornamentation or big ups and downs and with lyrics like this:


I sowed a pot / seed charm / watered it with tears / and the flower came out crying. / the fault had a love.

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The Almonaster Fandango has many variations: the Cross, the Villager, the Pines, near St. Eulalia, St. Eulalia long, and so on. His melodies are more twists and nuances that Encinasola's fandango. With the exception of St. Eulalia long, all other styles are brave, keeping his melodies in notes. In the first three Almonaster styles, its creators turned to a very different and subtle, which was to alter the combination of notes, but without breaking the melodic context, a procedure that already existed in the Gregorian chant. This phenomenon reappears in the Alosno Fandangos, Calañas and Huelva. El Fandango de St. Eulalia short stays on the heights along the first three parts, and then declined almost imperceptibly in the fourth and abruptly in the fifth and last. A sample of fandango letter is as follows:

High  mountain Almonaster / is a bush in the wood / When morning comes / whitens on the horizon / like the flower of the jara.

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