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The Fandango Complex In The Spanish Atlantic: A Panoramic View, Peter L. Manuel
The Fandango Complex In The Spanish Atlantic: A Panoramic View, Peter L. Manuel
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While the Andalusian and best-known forms of fandango share certain distinctive musical features, these same features can be seen to link these subgenres, historically and structurally, to much broader sets of transatlantic musical families, older genres like the zarabanda and chacona, a wide family of Caribbean-Basin ternary forms, as well as Andean and South American relatives. At the same time, clear distinctions can be made between genres related to this fandango complex and other major musical families in the Spanish Atlantic.
Modal Harmony In Andalusian, Eastern European, And Turkish Syncretic Musics, Peter L. Manuel
Modal Harmony In Andalusian, Eastern European, And Turkish Syncretic Musics, Peter L. Manuel
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This article examined, in a cursory form, the standardized ways of harmonizing predominantly modal melodies in the contexts of a set of interrelated urban folk and popular musics of the Mediterranean area. Insofar as these music employ a harmonic-melodic system qualitatively distinct from that of Western common practice, they are worthy of scholarly attention in themselves. This article further seeks to revive the spirit of "Comparative Musicology" and to suggest ways in which cross-cultural comparison of selected musical parameters may reveal new sorts of pan-regional music areas.