Flamenco Fridays with Naike

There are many who believe that the bulerías por soleá are different from the soleá por bulerías. This is the only style that has two names. In the primitive slate plates they appear many times with the title of bulerías. The style receives several alternative names: soleá por bulería, soleabulería, bulerías al blow, and surely the most appropriate bulería to hear what Jerez says.

The rhythmic-harmonic framework of the bulerías por soleá also supports other styles such as romances , alboreás , bamberas and jaleos .

Its melody is clearly different from that of soleá , since it is precisely a bulería . In order not to doubt whether a style is a soleá or a bulería por soleá, we recommend speeding up the rhythm and assessing whether or not the cante becomes a bulería.

It is not a soleá performed faster, it is a bulería said in soleá time.

The formal structure of bulerías por soleá tends to follow the following scheme: First, an introductory style, a variant of short Jerez bulería said in medium time; in the second couplet we find a fleeting step to the major, to finish off with a brave cante, which some interpreters tend to do without if the chosen key is particularly high.

The bulerías models to listen to have been classified by Luis Soler Guevara and Ramón Soler Díaz in their book ‘Los cantes de Antonio Mairena’. Classification that, as in the case of soleares and seguiriyas (see), we have followed. Norman Paul Kliman on the web portal   www.canteytoque.es  has designed a page with audios of  soleares and  seguiriyas that we have also followed in this section of  bulerías por soleá .

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