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    Tientos

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    Tientos is a slow cante jondo music and dance form that originated from Tangos. It has a solemn tone and lyrics that discuss serious themes like loss and imprisonment. The dance aims to capture this mood through interpretive solos. A standard Tientos performance involves a guitarist introducing the tempo and key, a singer establishing the mood through fragments, and a dancer interpreting the music through footwork and lyrical movements. The form follows a traditional structure of verses, guitar interludes, and prolonged footwork sections by the dancer.

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    Tientos is a slow cante jondo music and dance form that originated from Tangos. It has a solemn tone and lyrics that discuss serious themes like loss and imprisonment. The dance aims to capture this mood through interpretive solos. A standard Tientos performance involves a guitarist introducing the tempo and key, a singer establishing the mood through fragments, and a dancer interpreting the music through footwork and lyrical movements. The form follows a traditional structure of verses, guitar interludes, and prolonged footwork sections by the dancer.

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    Tientos is a slow cante jondo music and dance form that originated from Tangos. It has a solemn tone and lyrics that discuss serious themes like loss and imprisonment. The dance aims to capture this mood through interpretive solos. A standard Tientos performance involves a guitarist introducing the tempo and key, a singer establishing the mood through fragments, and a dancer interpreting the music through footwork and lyrical movements. The form follows a traditional structure of verses, guitar interludes, and prolonged footwork sections by the dancer.

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    Tientos is a slow cante jondo music and dance form that originated from Tangos. It has a solemn tone and lyrics that discuss serious themes like loss and imprisonment. The dance aims to capture this mood through interpretive solos. A standard Tientos performance involves a guitarist introducing the tempo and key, a singer establishing the mood through fragments, and a dancer interpreting the music through footwork and lyrical movements. The form follows a traditional structure of verses, guitar interludes, and prolonged footwork sections by the dancer.

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    The key takeaways are that Tientos is a style of flamenco music and dance developed by Enrique el Mellizo in the late 19th century. It has a solemn tone and emphasizes certain beats in its distinctive rhythm.

    The basic form includes a guitar introduction, temple (singer establishes key/pulse), llamada (dancer's cue), letra (singer sings verse), guitar falseta, escobilla (dancer's footwork), and ending with a faster macho section usually in tangos style.

    Tientos has a four-count rhythm with emphasis on the first beat and 'and' of the second beat. It can also be viewed as broken into triplets on each beat.

    About Tientos

    Tientos, a slow cante jondo music and dance in a four-count rhythm, was first developed by
    the singer Enrique el Mellizo (1848 -1906) as an expressive variation of the Tangos. Poet
    Federico Garca Lorca considered the Tientos to be almost liturgical in its solemnity.
    Traditional Tientos lyrics - letras - set a dark mood, and have to do with loss, unrequited
    love, imprisionment, longing for freedom and other serious messages. Dancers strive to
    capture this mood in their solos.

    The most notable aspect of the slow Tientos tempo is the beat structure. Where the first
    beat in Tangos is subdued, it is strongly emphasized in the Tientos, as is the "and" of the
    second beat.

    Form
    Although many variations are possible, the most basic form of the Tientos is as follows
    (including a full performance of guitarist, singer and dancer):

    1. Guitar introduction: The guitarist sets the basic tempo and key

    2. Temple: the singer sings fragments estribillos (le le, la, etc.) to establish the
    key, pulse and mood of the piece.

    3. The dancers llamada call/cue the guitarist performs double time here. The dancer
    generally performs footwork.

    4. Letra - 1st verse the singer sings the first verse, and the dancer interprets this
    impressionistically and rhythmically. After the 1st line of the song, the singer may take a 1
    or 2 comps break the respira and the dancer usually inserts footwork here.

    5. Guitar falseta a short melodic phrase that the dancer interprets lyrically.

    6. Escobilla the dancers 1st prolonged footwork section. This ends with a
    llamada to call in the 2nd verse.

    7. Letra - 2nd verse Similar or identical to the 1st verse.

    8. 2nd escobilla the dancers final long footwork section.

    9. The macho it is common for a flamenco song to end in a faster song/rhythm, and it is
    usually the Tangos for Tientos. The most traditional Tangos lyrics performed here are the
    song, "Triana."

    Comps
    Depending on how you choose to think about it, the comps of Tientos can seem
    deceptively simple or deceptively complex. Both views are correct.
    Viewed simply, tientos is a simple four-count rhythm with an added beat on the 'and' count
    of the second beat.

    V V V V
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

    Viewed slightly less simply, each beat is broken into triplets, and that added beat
    after beat two is on the "a" of the triplet .
    V V V V V
    1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a

    Viewed with more complexity, the "a" of beat one is added and beat three is left
    silent, but the "a" after beat three is added.
    Palmas
    The standard palmas for both Tientos and Tangos are:
    V V V V
    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
    or
    V V V V V
    1 2 + 3 4

    For Dancers
    As with most flameno forms, the dancer's role is to interpret the underlying feel and rhythm
    of the Tientos as expressed by the singer and the guitarist. However, the presence of a
    dancer brings some important additions to the overall structure and pulse of the Tientos.

    The first of these is in the dancer's llamada, which the dancer, guitarist and palmista
    perform at double time in relation to the slow introduction and letras. This moment is
    marked by fast footwork that ends abruptly on the first beat of a bar (on count 1). The
    guitarist resumes at the original tempo before the singer begins the first letra. Listen to the
    example below:

    EX

    During the first letra, the singer will take a break - a respira - between the first and second
    lines of the letra. The dancer will often insert double time footwork here. This is referred to
    as a remate for the dancer (thus, a one or two comps respite from singing where a short,
    quick burst of footwork is added before the singer resumes). Listen to the example below:

    Please see the FORM description above for a break down of the traditional dance structure.

    For Guitarists
    The basic comps for Tientos on the guitar can be performed with the same basic
    chords associated with the Tangos:
    |Bb |A |Bb |A |

    |Dm |C |Bb |A |

    Passing chords are added to this basic pattern to create the harmony for the Letra:

    |Bb |A |Bb
    |A |
    double time
    |Bb |Bb |A A
    a tempo
    |Dm |Dm |Dm | G7 |C |

    |F |Bb |Bb |A |

    |C |F |Bb |A |Bb |A |

    Sample Cante
    Below is a sample of a tradtional Letra por Tientos.

    Ay que me prace mentira How it seemed a lie


    Lo que tu hace conmigo How you had treated me
    Y entre las parede escribe Its written on the walls
    Yo hable con el Presidente I spoke with the President
    Ay si el querer es un delito If love is a crime
    Que Dios me mande la muerte then God should condemn me to death

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