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Compás is the beat of flamenco and its cornerstone. Besides the palos designated
as free, most of the styles are ruled by a measure which is based on rhythm and
the unique, different way of stressing each palo. Not being strict with the compás,
missing it, is not flamenco.
Jim Morris, England
Compás can be compared to the heartbeat of flamenco. The compás
are the rhythms which lead the music.
Kate, the United Kingdom
Compás is the measure of a musical phrase with its corresponding stress,
usually marked by the guitar.
David, Spain
Compás is the heartbeat of flamenco.
María, Brazil
Compás is the measure of a musical phrase with its corresponding stress,
usually marked by the guitar.
Manuel Sierra, Puerto Rico
Compás is the art which some cantaores and bailaores have of not getting
away from the melody which is marked with the guitar.
Francisco Javier Vázquez Ramos, Spain
Compás is the pulse, the cadence, the finishing touch with art, the
humming which reaches the guts, the moaning which tears out a single olé
through thousands of throats.
Gonzalo Franco, Uruguay
A cante or baile with compás is performed by faithfully following the
rhythm or cadence of the corresponding flamenco style.
José Antonio Menéndez Castro, Costa Rica
Flamenco compás is not only time; compás written out in full
is feeling, is communication, is a language between the tocaor and cantaor, and
at the same time with the audience able to see the backbone of cante. Compás
is an unfurnished house, the beginning and end of cante flamenco. The cantaor
and tocaor put all their effort into furnishing that house as well as possible.
Juan Alfonso Urbano Medina, Spain
Compás is that sense of time which God gives you and which cannot be
taught or transmitted, it can only be enjoyed. Right now I would point out Diego
Carrasco and José Caraoscura as the two flamencos with the most compás.
Rafa, Spain
Compás is the beat of flamenco, is the way in which it lays down its
guidelines and tells us how it is played.
Daniel Brenes, Costa Rica
Compás are the rhythms which flamenco requires to create the most beautiful
musical style that can be imagined.
Miguel Pardos, Australia
Compás is the main accompaniment of baile and toque flamenco.
Lizbeth Kanafany, Mexico
Compás is the measure which has to be carried by all cante, baile, toque
and cante for there to be harmony between them and for it to be possible to feel
and understand flamenco.
Esther Ruiz, Spain
Compás is the base sustaining the pillars of flamenco. The cantaor has
to express himself slowly and to the compás, without compás flamenco
would not be flamenco.
Miguel, Spain
The flamenco heart has a beat called compás, we feel life through that
beat.
María Alves, Brazil
Compás is the indicator of the time in which one dances, sings, or plays
the guitar, giving a specific structure to every one of the styles.
Claudia Cabaco, Uruguay
That rhythmic tapping which takes hold of you and gets into your entrails...
until it makes you feel it as if it were also yours. The rhythm marking the music,
in this case flamenco, and which may drift into different palos.
Josefina Cortés, Spain
Compás are the guidelines which have to be followed in the different
branches of flamenco. Each branch has its compás.
Raúl, Spain
Compás is the beat, sometimes fast, others slower, of the heart of each
palo. In a soleá, for example, this beat is in agony, going out slowly,
until it dies... it is the beat of an old heart (but not weak), which flutters
as much as its years allow it and which throbs with the advantage of wisdom. In
a bulería, on the contrary, the beat which we speak of, entertains... is
vital, is jolly. And how nice to be able to play with the compás, holding
it, bending it, biting it... studying it.
Luciana Abelenda, Argentina
Compás is the beat of flamenco, guiding and showing a sign of life.
Then the blood would be the music, which is driven forward and transmitted by
the heart, which would be the musicians and flamenco artists. Together they feed
the musical necessity of the rest of the body, obviously shaped by people who
love flamenco and its tradition.
Daniel Jordan, the United States
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