The Art of Flamenco - UCSD Extension

This is the primitive webpage for the UCSD Extension course The Art of Flamenco .

Handouts:

Syllabus

Summary of Forms

Where to find flamenco CDs, etc. on the web

A list of famous flamenco artists

Grana ína versus Media Grana ína

Tarantas versus Tarantos

Mineras, Cartegeneras, etc.

Peri cón stories

Class Notes:

(best viewed with Microsoft Explorer)

Class 1     Introduction, distinguishing forms, basic cante gitano forms

Class 2     The canti ñas family, forms in 4s, cantes de ida y vuelta , sevillanas

Class 3     The fandangos family - cante andaluz

Class 4     Flamenco history, including some Spanish history and history of gitanos; Andalucian Spanish and Caló , early cante gitano

Class 5    Flamenco history, from cafe cantantes to flamenco nuevo

The following links should take you to publicly -accessible sound files. You will need both MP3 (e.g. WinAmp) and Real Audio plug-ins to play these.

Under each category the clips are arranged roughly in chronological order - thus, the first ones are usually early recordings, with poorer quality. The MP3 files make take awhile to download, but will generally have better spound quality than the real audio clips. Email me at moorej@ucsd.edu if you have any problems.