If you don't know castanets, you can think of them as Allegro China first. Yes, it's also two boards in your hand, but it strikes the wild and passionate life rhythm of a Spanish matador. Castanets, also known as "Spanish castanets", are mostly used in national dances in southern European countries such as Spain and Italy, as well as in Latin America. Its timbre is crisp and bright, and from all kinds of complicated and wonderful rhythm patterns, we can feel the unparalleled enthusiasm and unrestrained of the Latin nation.
Although there are different opinions about the origin of castanets, traditionally, most people think that Spain is its real birthplace.
As early as 187, the Spanish Academy of Music, Dance and Drama proposed to protect the traditional Spanish dance art and maintain its pure dance style, and emphasized that castanets must be used to accompany this kind of traditional dance. Thus, castanets are the rhythm soul of Spanish dance. As long as castanets strike between the fingers of the dancers, the passion from generate in each blood vessel will reach the dancers' heels irrevocably, and the dancers' upper and lower ends will simultaneously emit a strong rhythm unique to Spain.
dozens of uniform dancers, dressed in strapless tights with black turtlenecks and patches of silver sequins, and black wide-leg trousers in monohydrate clearly show the sexy and hot slender figure of Spanish girls. Their skillful dance steps and the explosive power of dancing in an instant with tall and noble beautiful backs are shocking, accompanied by the crisp castanets that make people unable to sit still, which impact your sight and mind like the tide; The powerful tap dance steps out of the complex rhythm, and the suffocating tap speed makes people temporarily forget the concepts of time and space. All these, combined with the magical lighting changes, make people have a profound life experience of being there and forgetting to go home.
Spanish castanets are very particular. Each pair of castanets is divided into male and female. The pitch of the female is slightly higher than that of the male, and the difference in sound depends on the gap between two pieces of wood. Dance companies are also very particular about the use and preservation of their beloved castanets. After each use, they must put the castanets in a cover and store them very carefully. Moreover, because they are made of wood, the dry and wet weather has a great influence on the castanets, and some of them may even break.
representative dance music: castanet Spain, Spanish inspiration and matador March.