Annotation:Spanish Fandango (2)
X: 1 T: Spanish Fandango [2] Q: "Moderate." %R: fandango, waltz B: W. Hamilton "Universal Tune-Book" Vol. 1 Glasgow 1844 p.126 #1 S: http://imslp.org/wiki/Hamilton's_Universal_Tune-Book_(Various) Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu> N: All 3 strains have final repeats but no initial repeat symbols; fixed. M: 3/4 L: 1/8 F:http://www.john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/Hamilton/HUTB1-1844-V1.abc K: F %%stretchstaff 0 %%slurgraces yes %%graceslurs yes % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - cB |\ (AcfAcf) | {fg}a2a2gf | (egbgeg) | (ffedcB) | (AcfAcf) | {fg}a2a2gf | (egbgeg) | f4 :| |: AB |\ (cdcBAc) | d2d2(ef) | (egbgeg) | (fafcAB) | (cdcBAc) | d2d2(ef) | (egbgeg) | f4 :| |: AB |\ (c/d/c/B/ A).f.c.a | (c/d/c/B/ A).f.c.a |(B/c/B/A/ G).e.B.g | (B/c/B/A/ G).e.B.g | (c/d/c/B/ A).f.c.a | (c/d/c/B/ A).f.c.a |(B/c/B/A/ G).e.B.g | f4 :| % - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
SPANISH FANDANGO [2]. English, Waltz (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. D Major (‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘F’ parts) & D Minor (‘D’ and ‘E’ parts). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABCDDEEFFAA. There are several different “Spanish Fandangos” in traditional usage in American and the British Isles. “Fandango,” possibly derived from Portuguese fado or word of West African origin used to describe a “native ball” or dance. The the term was applied to a lively 3/4 time dance that originated among the people of the Iberian peninsula, probably in the very early 18th century[1]. Early evidence of fandango dancing in Spain was recorded in 1712 by a Spanish priest, Padre Martin, who decried the vulgarity of a dance in Cadiz known as the fandango. The dance's first sighting in a theatrical work was in Francisco de Leefadeal's entremés "El novio de la aldeana" staged in Seville, ca. 1720. However, by the late 18th century it had become fashionable among the aristocracy and was often included in tonadillas, zarzuelas, ballets and operas, not only in Spain, but also elsewhere in Europe.
It was not unknown in America as well. An April 1796 playbill for New York’s John Street Theatre, for instance, advertised a “Spanish Fandango” between the play and the afterpiece, listing four dancers and five singers who did not appear in the play. That same year citizens of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, thrilled to the acrobatics of Don Pedro Clori. Blindfolded and pretending to be a drunkard, Don Pedro danced the Spanish fandango around 13 eggs without cracking a single shell. The Fandango presumably gained invigorated currency in accordance with the English alliance with Portugal and Spanish partizans in the Peninsular War (1808-1814) against Napoleon.
- ↑ There is some thought that there may have been a West Indian influence in the dance as well, which may have itself derived from Africa. See Unlocking the “Hermetic Age": Excavations of Negro in Spanish and Flamenco Dance, Kathy M. Milazzo, PhD thesis, May 2013, Univ. of Surry.