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Malagueñas - Flamenco Style
I wanted to mention this 1st, even though I can't exactly find any violinist playing in this style - and I sure wish I could! I might've found ONE, but I need to check a few things 1st.
What I've listened to on guitar is AMAZING - not too fast, it's a freer form in rhythm & tempo, with improvisation!
This kind is NOT the commonly known sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona (which I also LOVE)! And it isn't Sarasate's Spanish Dance, or the Venezuelan genre by the same name (LOVE both)!
It is not normally used for dance, as it is generally interpreted with no regular rhythmic pattern, as a "cante libre". It has a very rich melody with virtuous flourishes and use of microtones.
Malagueñas derive from local variety of the Fandangos, a type of dance that, with different regional variations and even different names, became very popular in great part of Spain in the 18th century. (Wikipedia)
The Malagueña began as a relatively fast metric form in 6/8 time to accompany dance. In the 19th century, guitarists began slowing the tempo down and added more embellishments.
Eventually, [Flamenco] guitarists like Ramón Montoya (1879-1949) began playing Malagueñas freely, while still incorporating the distinctive melodic phrases that gave rise to the form’s popularity.
Montoya integrated techniques such as arpeggios, scales, tremelo, falsetas, and alternative chord shapes to make the form suitable for a solo guitar performance. Malagueñas have two familiar repeating melody [to listen for]... (richter guitar)
If anyone has any info on THIS traditional 'Flamenco' Palo, let me know.
There's some great examples of the other kinds of Malagueñas by Spanish composers and Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba), that are popular.
I'd like to research a little more about the "two familiar repeating melody", maybe all I can do is listen to more of the great guitarists, but I did see some potentially helpful video sheet music.
...from what I've seen so far, this would be FABULOUS to play on Violin, Viola or Cello!
- Emily
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This is traditional Flamenco which I recorded in Seville a couple of months ago,
Thought you may find this interesting . I have heard Flamenco all over Spain, even in Jerez (saw a good horse show there), which you mention in the other post, saw some good dancers in Cadiz as well, they had all the tourist dress on very colourful, never heard fiddle played along with it though, but to be honest I am not really taken with it. Each to his own though.
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@stringy -
THANK YOU!
That's really cool - appreciate you sharing it (must've been beautiful)!
The one thing I realize about the Malagueña, compared to many of the other Flamenco Palos, is you won't hear any Palmas (hand clapping accompaniment), or see dancing - because of the freeform rhythm. I like this because the 12-beat Campas are still too new to me to be comfortable counting.
I had to resort to this guitar tutorial to get more details on Malagueña.
This is easy to understand (just ignore the tabs)!
Zara Zaharieva & David Chiriboga do a wonderful Malagueña, "using the theme, one of its melodies, plus some improvisation" - it's what I believe a Malagueña should be!
I'm pretty sure Paco Montalvo is playing the Malagueña composition from Sarasate's 'Spanish Dances' - starts in 3/8 time, but tempo changes are notated on the score. This makes the palmos possible, because it's composed - not improvised.
I still love it & great inspiration for other violinists!
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I should have recorded a bit more, if I had known you were interested I would have. There were also some buskers when I was in Malaga a couple of weeks ago, a young girl and two fellers, one playing guitar one playing bouzouki and the girl playing fiddle, they were doing gypsy jazz, and were really good but I disnt bother filming them as I thought no one would be interested. I will have to start recording these musicians I see and posting them on here.
Seville by the way is very,very beautiful, one of the most beautiful I have been to in fact, Vienna is my favourite though, I feel at home there and am going again in a few weeks, first to Bratislava in Slovakia and then Vienna either down the Danube or by train.
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@stringy -
I'd be DELIGHTED if you'd keep an eye out, while on your travels, for locals playing their traditional music, but on the violin, viola, cello, or closely related bowed instrument - in ANY Country you visit! 🥰
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From the Region of Murcia, Andalusia's neighbor up the Mediterranean Coast!
The reality was that the malagueñas (and in part the jotas) became enthroned as the most reproduced music, especially to be the accompaniment of the bolero or school-style dances that, replacing the simple more popular style dances, dominated the context.
Cuadrilla de Torreagüera (Murcia). Malagueña de la huerta. Torrealta (Murcia, España), 24-09-2016
with this interpretation of the Cuadrilla de Torreagüera (district of Murcia, Spain, located in the southern part of the Murcian orchard), of this malagueña in the style of the bolero or abolerado fandangos, with the characteristic slow tempo necessary for the dancers to show off in their movements, with the melisma accent of cantaores and with similarities to those used in the south of Alicante [private party].
Animeros de Caravaca (Murcia). Malagueña 2. Nerpio, 26-02-1994
Los Animeros de Caravaca (Caravaca, Murcia, Spain) has been the musical group of oral tradition that has best represented what the recovery of the love of traditional music meant in the southeast of Spain during the 1970s.
This reminds me more of what I might hear in Mexico.
[at this Wedding] as a tribute, already at the end of the religious ceremony, some of the many musicians present played, sang and danced this malagueña de arriba (a variety of fandango from the land).
More interest videos on Spanish Folk music around the Region of Murcia at the 'Manuel Sánchez Martínez' YT Channel!
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Just learned that the Malagueñas I posted (from the Murcia Region) looks like they fall under - "Fandangos de Málaga". It's easy to understand how music in Murcia could be related to Málaga - topographically, the mountain ranges would lend to the spread of culture up & down the Mediterranean Coast.
From studioflamenco.com:
Fandangos is the name given to a broad array of flamenco forms which, taken together, seem to have little in common.
Fandangos associated with Málaga and the surrounding area. Founded by the Phonecians around 770 BC, Málaga sits between the Mediterranean and the mountains. It is home to a broad range of Fandangos, including some of the oldest known flamenco forms in existence.
The Flamenco Malagueñas are a slow unmeasured Fandango, which are related to the Verdiales traditional mountain folk music of Málaga, but they still vary from region to region - so Murcia will naturally have it's own variations.
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