Xiquet de Benaguasil and rondalla: Te Canto Con Mil Amores (1952)

[@dmlevitt]

I love all of your posts. Alan Lomax has introduced me to so many incredible artists throughout my entire life. Thank you and cheers.

[@bold810]

Lomax's archive introduced me to such good music, Xiquet de Benaguasil here and especially bluesman R.L. Burnside, "See my jumper on the Line". Alan Lomax is what "Big Government" can and does.. with tax dollars. Precious American musical heritage and that of those who came here seeking "the American Dream ".

[@bold810]

Me too, maing. I donate to Alan Lomax archives, just to know,.. someone, someone will realize the music that exists in all hearts, of Sharp Minds and dear hearts. R.L. Burnside, "See My Jumper Hangin' On the Line". 😌🎉🤙🎇

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[@chlcdny]

♡♡♡• what a marvelous ballad...una canta hermosa!!♡♡☆•

[@bold810]

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[@ElizabethRoseTexas]

A wonderful addition for Valentine's Day! ❣️🌹❣️🌹❣️ Grateful!

[@bold810]

For what we can? For what We Can Be. 🎉

[@chema.Blanquer]

guitarro julian vicente Pla (el niño de paterna,cuñat del xiquet de paterna) gracies

[@Jazzgriot]

Boss.

[@SantjagoRamirez]

Grazie!

[@farmhand6524]

Loved it, thank you for posting...

[@Магаданскиекостры]

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[@Casanovachef]

El benaguacilero mes artiste del mon.

[@kiri101]

Utterly beautiful, and a valuable historical record. Edit: Am I hearing an old Arabic influence in the vocals as they rise and fall through many tones? The technique less so than the actual choice of tones.

[@andreic.7903]

You might be correct on the assumption,since Valencia was part of the Moorish kingdoms being together with Granada one of the most effervescent and cultural rich city of it s time... Good hearing :D

[@ephre]

i wish i got letters like that

[@ellischandler5021]

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[@voraciousreader3341]

It’s so bizarre that at the end of the phrases, the singer _never_ completes the dominant-tonic cadence that is a hallmark of Western music! The instrumentalists do it for the singer, who often finishes his phrase on the second note of the scale. There were a few times he simply stopped, but it sounded as though he was in a different key than the instrumentalists!! Very strange, indeed....I think I’ll stick with Mexican groups, lol!!

[@Patrick3183]

Arab influenced… this is Spain

[@jared_bowden]

Good ear on picking up the weirdness around the cadence, I don't think it's uncommon in Southern Spanish music, where long-time Arab influence causes the music to do weird things compared to elsewhere in Europe. For example, take the Andalusian Cadence, which is the Stereotypical "Spanish Chord Progression": Am G F E. In Western music, this sounds strongly like 1 7 6 5 in A minor, and if you listen to the many, many pop/rock songs that have used this progression, this is how they use it, ending on an A minor. However, this isn't how the Spanish use it: instead, they always end on the E and don't return on the Am - again, they're not completing the dominant-tonic cadence. The reason is that the E →Am that sounds like a dominant-tonic progression isn't actually one, because the song isn't actually in A minor: it's in E Phrygian #3. To a classically-trained Spanish musician, the chord progression Am G F E is 4 3 2 1, and the cadence is not from the E to the Am but rather from the F to the E. Although the recorded song here is very different from the Andalusian cadence, it's not surprising that the singer might be hearing the cadence at a different point than the rest of us.

[@geraldillo]

It sounds to me like a sort of fandango flamenco. Although the letter, shown in the video, shows that the musicians are from Valencia, I suppose that Rondalla has something to do with the city of Ronda(?) This is just speculation but maybe the singer was a gipsy who moved to Valencia and Lomax mixed up Rondeña with Rondalla? Traditional Rondeña is a form of Fandangos. I know that in some forms of flamenco he singer often sings the "seventh" of a dominant chord which for me, who was used to western harmony, sounded very strange at first. Here is a traditional Rondeña; kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2KplaGVfrybgck

[@chema.Blanquer]

@@geraldillo They are autochthonous musicians from Valencia and they are albaes, folklore from Valencia. They sing in Spanish and in Valencian a language

[@clarantromillo]

​​@@geraldilloI don't think so, "rondalla" is a term widely used in other places in Spain, meaning a group of musicians which make a "ronda", literally going around playing music. In Galicia, where we have a different musical culture from Valencia, there are lots of rondallas, specially on Christmas holidays.