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Flamenco

Spanish
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An Andalusian art form combining song, guitar, rhythm, and dance, often expressing sorrow, pride, and passion.

Detailed Definition
Flamenco is one of Spain’s richest poetic emblems because it fuses music, body, voice, rhythm, and emotional extremity. Its cries, handclaps, guitar figures, footwork, and silences express longing, grief, defiance, love, and fate. Linked with Andalusia and Gitano traditions, it often carries duende, the dark force of authentic feeling. Poets use flamenco to represent art born from suffering, communal memory, and the transformation of pain into beauty.
Example
Example in poetry:
Flamenco's deep song surges through Lorca's verses of duende, blood, and sorrow; In flamenco the poet finds Spain's primal cry of passion and exile; Flamenco inspires the bard's rhythms of guitar, voice, and tragic grace; Poets use flamenco to capture Andalusia's soul in raw, living art; The flamenco dancer's feet stamp the poet's metaphors of joy and pain; Flamenco awakens the Spanish poet to ancient Gypsy and Moorish echoes.
Additional Notes
Flamenco expresses deep duende—raw emotion—in Lorca's work; song, dance, guitar fuse sorrow and pride. Central to Andalusian identity.
Other Meanings of “Flamenco”
Also Known As
Cante jondo Flamenco music
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