flamenco
Fandangos and derivatives
It is one of the more ancient singing style and dance. They are related with the Arabic-Andalusian gypsy dances, such as the zambras and the jarchas. It is said that the fandango was spread for centuries throughout Spain acquiring the character of each region. The moorish Fandango became jotas, alboradas, muñeiras, boleros, malhaos, and many others.

Verdiales


Malagueñas
Tu dices que me as querido
gitano de sacromonte
tu dices que me as querido
vas engañando a la gente
dios sabe lo que e sufrió
me esta costando la muerte
You say you’ve loved me
you, gypsy from Sacromonte
you say that you love me
you’re deceiving everybody,
God knows what I’ve suffered
so much that I’m close to death.
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We only have to mention the granainas and medias granainas before finishing. Even if they are descendants of malagueñas if we see the family tree we will check that they are the most distant from the Malaga trunk. We check in the book Mundo y Formas del Cante Flamenco in which the authors Molina and Mairena do a differentiation of the singings. There are two types: the granaina and media granaina. The granaina is easiest and more beautiful; if it is performed by a good singer it can almost reach the malagueña nature. The media granaína, however, is a song filigreed and affected which produces more admiration than emotion. These singings were orphan when they were born; they were ignored by the world of dancing. It was in the year 2000 when the flamenco dancer Merche Esmeralda danced them for the first time in the flamenco play Tormenta de Arena, with the same tear than the singer Charo Manzano.
Bandolás
The Singer and guitarist Juan Breva from Malaga is also the inventor of the dance abandolao. He gave a slow and flamenco character to the verdiales, turning them into bandolas, generating in the family tree another branch of Malaga. There are different local varieties of the bandola: the rondeñas, the jaberas, the zángano, etc. Like the malagueña, the rondeña went also through the workshop of the Bolera School and had a strong impact in the XIX century.