Seguidilla

1.1 Dance
The dance is performed in pairs with animated footwork
reecting the rhythm of the guitar and percussion, yet restrained upper body movement. One technique characteristic of the dance is known as bien parado, wherein the
dancers stop motion at the end of a section of the music
or stanza of text while the instruments continue playing
into the next section. Usually the woman dance also holds
castanets.
Act I of ballet Don Quixote (classical version choreographed by Marius Petipa and restaged by Alexander
Gorsky) includes a Seguidilla dance performed by corps
de ballet.

1.2 Song
In general, seguidilla folksongs begin with a brief instrumental introduction, often played on guitar, followed by
a salida, which is a small portion of the song text acting
as a false start. The remaining sections are free and varied, consisting of instrumental interludios and the vocal
sections called coplas.

Seguidilla dance in past centuries

1.3 Seguidilla aria

The seguidilla is an old Castilian folksong and dance

form in quick triple time. (The dance portion is spelt
in the plural, as seguidillas.) The song is generally in
the major key and often begins on an o-beat. The
name is a diminutive of seguida (from seguir, meaning
to follow).[1]

The Seguidilla aria forms part of Act I of the French

opera, Carmen by Georges Bizet. The beautiful gypsy,
Carmen, sings it in an attempt to seduce her captor, the
soldier Don Jos, into going with her to her friend Lillas
Pastias inn. [2] It is likely also that the Veil Song (Act
II, scene 1, of Don Carlos) by Giuseppe Verdi is meant
to evoke the style of a seguidilla. Moreover, in Verdis La
forza del destino, the composer inserts a folkdance at the
beginning of Act II, and calls it seguidilla on the score.
However, this passage is written in 4/4, not in triple time
as seguidilla traditionally is. A Seguidilla aria also features in Paisiellos opera Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Types

The earliest and most inuential of the types of seguidilla

are thought to originate in either La Mancha or Andalusia,
having become typical of large parts of central Spain.
Variants include the seguidilla manchega (from La Mancha) as well as the murciana from Murcia and the slightly
faster sevillana of Seville. One of the most complex
styles of seguidilla is the seguidilla amenca or seguiriya),
which is used in amenco music. Act I of Jacques Offenbach's opera La Prichole includes a number entitled
Sguedille.

2 Notes
[1] seguidilla.
May 2008.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary..

Accessed

[2] Aria database Seguidilla (Prs des ramparts de Sville).

Accessed March 2008

References
Video clip of a seguidilla demonstrated by Dani
Peces posted on youtube.com
Video clip of seguidilla de Castilla performed by a
folklore group

REFERENCES

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