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| From 2026 01 02 Salamanca, Spain |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from a Flamenco performance in Salamanca, Spain. According to Wikipedia, "Although it is often described as a folk, popular or oral tradition, flamenco is also regarded as a complex and sophisticated musical system. Its forms combine song, guitar, dance, compás, modal and tonal harmony, falsetas, handclaps, footwork, melodic ornamentation and improvisatory variation. The musical identity of a palo may depend on several features at once, including rhythmic cycle, mode, chord progression, stanzaic form, geographic origin and performance convention. This musical sophistication, together with the development of concert flamenco guitar and formal conservatory study, has helped flamenco appeal not only to popular audiences but also to listeners and performers from classical-music backgrounds...On 16 November 2010, UNESCO declared flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity."
"Red skirts sweep the air.
Heels thunder like rain; hands clap.
Six strings keep the beat."
— h/t ChatGPT
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