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Definition: Flamenco |
FlamencoNoun1. A style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Flamenco is a song, music and dance style originating from the gypsies in Andalusia, Spain. Originally, flamenco consisted of unaccompanied singing (cante). Later the songs were accompanied by guitar (toque), hand clapping (palmas) and dance (baile); the toque and baile are also often found without the cante, although the song remains at the heart of the flamenco tradition. More recently other instruments like the cajon (a box used as a percussion instrument from Peru), palillos (castanets), and the bass guitar have been introduced.
The origin of the name flamenco is a much-debated topic. Some people suggest an Arabic origin for the name, but it seems more likely that it is of Spanish origin and originally meant Flemish.
Flamenco forms
Flamenco cante consists of a number of traditional (and not-so-traditional) forms, with characteristic rhythmic and harmonic structures. The rhythm (compas) is perhaps the most fundamental distinguishing feature of the different flamenco forms.
Some of the forms are sung unaccompanied, while others usually have a guitar and sometimes other accompaniment. Some forms are danced while others traditionally are not. Amongst both the songs and the dances, some are traditionally the preserve of men and others of women, while still others would be performed by either sex. Many of these traditional distinctions are now breaking down; for example the farruca is traditionally a man's dance, but is now commonly performed by women too.
The classification of flamenco forms is not entirely uncontentious, but a common and convenient first classification is into three groups. The deepest, most serious forms are known as cante jondo (or cante grande), while relatively light, frivolous forms are called cante chico. Forms which do not fit into either category but lie somewhere between them are classified as cante intermedio. Many flamenco artists, including some considered to be amongst the greatest, have specialised in a single flamenco form.
- cante jondo (cante grande)
- siguiriyas
- soléa
- tientos
- cante intermedio
- bulerias
- cante chico
- alegrías
- fandango
- farruca
- sevillana
Flamenco artists
- cante/voice
- Camarón de la Isla
- Chocolate (Antonio Núñes Montoya)
- Niña de los Peines (Pastora Pavón)
- Tomás Pavón
- guitar
- Paco de Lucia
- Paco Peña
- Ramón Montoya
- Sabicas (Agustin Castellon Campos)
- Tomatito
- Paco Serrano
- dancers
- Carmen Amaya
- La Joselito (Carmen Gómez)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flamenco."
Synonym: FlamencoSynonym: gypsy dancing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Flamenco |
| Etymologies containing "flamenco": flamingo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Flamenco" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (flamenco), German (flamenco), Hungarian (flamenco), Italian (flamenco), Portuguese (flamenco), Spanish (flamenco, flamingo, Fleming, Flemish, Flemming, Flemmish), Swedish (flamenco). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Flamenco en Castilla (1970) The José Greco Flamenco Specials: Part Two (1967) Duende y misterio del flamenco (1952) Flamenco Women (1997) L' École du flamenco (1985) | |
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| "Guitar player" by Thomash Commentary: "Close up of a guitar player strumming, from a series taken for a flamenco guitar album." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Flamenco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.04% of the time. "Flamenco" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.04% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.96% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flamenco" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flamenco | Last name | 200 | 33,812 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "flamenco": flamenco dancer ♦ flamenco singing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flamenco": flamenco-fuelled. | |
Ending with "flamenco": cod-flamenco, sub-flamenco. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "flamenco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | valle spanjole me kastanjeta, muzikë flamenko. (various references) | |
Arabic | فلامنكو رقصة إسبانية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фламенко, испанска циганска песен, испанска цигански танц. (various references) | |
Czech | španìlský tanec. (various references) | |
French | flamenco. (various references) | |
German | flamenco. (various references) | |
Hungarian | flamenco. (various references) | |
Italian | flamenco. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フラビン酵素 (FAZ, flavin enzyme, flower arrangement, flower tea, flywheel magnet, franc, Francis Bacon, francium, Franglais, frank, Frankfurt, frankfurter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フラメンコ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amencoflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flamenco. (various references) | |
Russian | фламенко. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flamenko. (various references) | |
Spanish | flamenco (flamingo, Fleming, flemish, Flemming, Flemmish). (various references) | |
Swedish | flamenco. (various references) | |
Turkish | flamenko. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фламенко. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flamenco": flamencos. (additional references) | |
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"Flamenco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: famicom, Flamanck, flamencoing, flaminco, flemenco, Mlanenko. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-l-m-n-o" | |
-2 letters: falcon, flacon, flamen, foeman. | |
-3 letters: alone, amole, anole, camel, cameo, canoe, celom, clean, clone, comae, comal, fecal, felon, flame, fleam, focal, lance, leman, lemon, macle, macon, melon, ocean. | |
-4 letters: acme, acne, aeon, alec, alef, alme, aloe, amen, cafe, calf, calm, calo, came, cane, clam, clan, clef, clon, coal, cola, cole, coma, come, cone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-l-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: flamencos. | |
+3 letters: confirmable, conformable, flamboyance, infomercial, malefaction. | |
+4 letters: flamboyances, infomercials, malefactions. | |
+5 letters: flamboyancies, malfunctioned, metafictional, microfilament, uncomfortable, unconformable. | |
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