Set the Music for the Dancer | Flamenco Guitar

Set the Music for the Dancer | Flamenco Guitar   

Flamenco Dance and Guitar

Cultures had by a lot of societies living in many places all around the world. Amongst the cultures those were born in the middle of the societies, the music and dance also become the part of cultures. There are a lot of kinds of music born from the different cultures all around the world. Flamenco also had born from the culture, in this case the culture of Andalusia in Spain. It is known to start at the 18^th century, and known as the song, music and also dance style of Andalusia. In flamenco, there are four elements must be checked; the dance, the play of guitar, the handclaps and also the singing.

Flamenco Guitar

The play of guitar in flamenco is important as important as the other three elements. The flamenco guitar is made with the certain technique for the certain reason. It is important for a flamenco guitar to have the more percussive sound and in order to have that kind of sound; the guitar must be made from two types of woods. The first wood is the hard type of woods that will be used as the side part of the guitar and the second wood is the softer type of wood that will be used as the top part of the guitar. This is the basic knowledge about the construction of flamenco guitar.

Flamenco Guitar

Besides the guitar play, the other things those important in the performance of flamenco are the singing, dance and handclaps. Each one of the flamencoelement serves its portion to the performance of flamenco. As the kind of performance that has been performed for such a long time, flamenco has been through several changes from the original version of flamenco. However, the music from the flamenco guitar and the steps of the dance are the same fundamentally. By the time goes by, there are several styles of flamenco come after one another as the form of flamenco varieties. Flamenco Guitar

The flamenco performance that often be seen nowadays is actually the commercial type of flamenco and not the authentic flamenco at some points. The most authentic form of flamenco is often being seen in the Gitano or Gypsy wedding and also the Spanish celebration and it danced informally. Flamenco puro is considered to be the closest form to the original of flamenco. The costumes used by the flamenco dancers are also not original because the original costume is known to be too tight for a dance.  flamenco guitar