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Flamenco Forms
Jaleos
bySusana
Navalón
Translated by Yasha
Maccanico
Within a flamenco milieu, the term jaleo refers to any party style involving
accompaniment with palm clapping and cries of encouragement by
the jaleadores (persons giving encouragement and expressing admiration
through loud interjections, clapping and gestures). It is a kind
of bulería that is practiced in Extremadura, with monotone cadences
and a danceable rhythm. It is an archaic style, but it has resurfaced
in the voices of gypsies from Extremadura. Many guitarists bring
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|  The marcaje (marking of lyrics) is like that of a bulería, but reversed and slower.
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Jaleos are clear predecessors
of the bulería and of the soleá for dancing. The origins
for its peculiar rhythm lie in the chufla (joke, jeering),
which often finished off dances in an alegrías style.
The marcaje (marking of lyrics) is like that of a bulería,
but reversed and slower. The weak and strong sections
are inverted, and the accent falls on the first movement
of the triplet. It is quite simply a variation of the
fandango's 3 x 4.
1 2
3 / 1 2
3 / 1 2
3
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| The jaleo itself is a jotilla, a type of fandango, but it is based on the Andalusian
scale. |
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| The jaleo itself is a jotilla,
a kind of fandango, but it is based on the Andalusian
scale. It sometimes adopts some cadences during the second
and third copla (poetic composition, in verse, used as
lyrics).The jaleo's melodies are peculiar because it incorporates
some specific tonalities that are clearly recognisable.
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| Singing |
It is a ternary cante
(style of song) that is very lively and close to the
bulería, which has influenced it, and has a strophe
composed by three eight-syllable verses with rhymes
in their odd lines. It may be considered the residual
form of the jaleo's original primitive coplas. The jaleo's
coplas are short soleares, in three verses, whose nature
is jocular and inconsequential. |
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