Not only spanish music but music in general goes way back in history. I would even venture to say the prehistoric men probably did a song and a dance or emitted sounds that seemed like songs to make themselves understood.<\/p>\n
We can learn so much about who people were and what daily circumstances they lived in just by listening to what they had to say in their songs. Spanish music lyric can tell us about the way people lived and thought and what their worries were and are nowadays. Music in spanish and its lyrics are sung everywhere around the world in innumerous popular celebrations and festivities. Each one having different music and accompanying lyrics. I think it would be personally enhancing if we could take a quick look into the most popular spanish music then and now.<\/p>\n
Folklore is what comes from the people and spanish christian music is exactly that \u2013 feelings, their knowledge and a special message which comes from the heart of each town, big or small. In the spanish folklore music, the instruments were the base and functional part and the lyrics are what told us in a melodic way the secrets, the joys and verbal sorrows of what their lives were like. The shepherds, farmers, harvesters and all the hard lonely jobs made singing an enjoyable way of passing the time and it was a moment of particular interpretation of inner restlessness. Folklore is the harmonious explanation of spanish history and a fun way to learn spanish.<\/p>\n
But we can advance in time a little and even though the opera was not created in Spain, it helped develop the opereta and then onto what is definitely \u2013 made in Spain \u2013 the Zarzuela. The Zarzuela is a dramatic musical, alternating dialogues with music and lyrics in spanish. It was as serious a classical opera or as light and rebellious with slapstick sung dialogues and lively witty songs. But the music in spanish Zarzuela was of the best quality. Felix Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon de la Barca, two excellent and notorious dramatists together with the musician Juan Hidalgo, all from the 17th c., acted as guides with their novels to create spanish music lyric which gave life to aristocrats, heroes, mythological characters and christian music.<\/p>\n
From the Zaruela we come to the Cuple, which can be defined as spanish music with jokingly provocative lyrics. Many new artists were born into this genre of openness and frankness. No one ever dared to show such undisguised meanings in spanish music, playing up especially to the male audience.<\/p>\n
Flamenco too cannot be forgotten if we are to talk about dynamic folklore and learn inner secrets from an ethnic group of people who have always kept among themselves.<\/p>\n
And then the pop groups came in the 60\u00b4s and 70\u00b4s like the Brincos, Duo Dinamico, Los Pekiniques, Sirex and soloist such as Nino Bravo, Joan Manuel Serrat who used repeated refrains and invented new rhythms and lyrics to express their needs and unanswered questions. Up until now, spanish music lyrics have been used to protest against wars and discrimination, but above all to sing out about love. A new found love, love of freedom, a frustrated love and just love. Music is universal and has no prejudices, just like spanish music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some ideas on the real spanish music then and now.Interjections by a spanish music listener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[57,125],"yoast_head":"\n