A Donkey Trip Through SpainR. M. McBride, 1924 - 273 pages |
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Page 100 - Gada vez que te veo los cenojiles se me ponen los ojos como candiles " (Every time that I see your garters, my eyes burn like kitchen lamps)- — sang somebody jeeringly to the measure of his dancing. When he had retired exhausted and perspiring, the two indefatigable gipsies took up the weird jonda rhythms once more, neither wishing to allow that the other was the better man. Jota is the popular style of music of Arragon and Castille, and has a variation proper to Valencia called the Jota Valenciana.
Page 100 - Sardaua from the old Greek colonies of Spain. The Gallegas is the Galician music, from which was derived the Farouka ; the former is in the major key, the latter in the minor ; the latter is flamenco, the former is not.
Page 228 - The details of how from posadaship she had fallen to this minute eatinghouse were slurred over.