4. Did you know that …

4 … harmony (the harmonic mode) is one of the three keys, together with meter and tempo, for distinguishing just by hearing the different ‘palos’ or flamenco genres?

• Concepts such as the harmonic ostinato –introduced in Flamencology by the musicologist Faustino Núñez– and the metric formula enable a graphic expression of the essence of each flamenco genre.
• In this regard, we establish some flamenco harmony principles according to Manolo Sanlúcar’s thesis, in order to unveil the ‘sound story’ implicit in the so called flamencan cadence.