Spanish traditional folk song and dance from Andalusia
El Vito is a traditional folk song and dance music of Andalusia whose origins can be traced back to the 16th century.[1] Its name refers to Saint Vitus, patron of dancers.[2] It was created in the nineteenth century as a dancing song typical of the bolero. It includes steps in the art of bullfighting[3] and is usually played by women. The typical costume includes jacket and brimmed hat.[4]
The melody of El vito is played fast in a 3/8 time signature,[5] and it uses the harmonic minor scale for the ascending motives, and the phrygian mode, which is the most characteristic of Andalusian music, for the descending mode, which generates an harmonic accompaniment based on the Andalusian cadence. It is also sung with different lyrics,[5] humorous or serious.[2]
Pablo de Sarasate composed a Vito as part of his Spanish Dances, as well as briefly in an Allegretto section toward the end of his Airs espagnols, Op. 18.
It also serves as part of the melody for the El quinto regimiento (song), an anthem of socialist and communist troops fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.[6]
Folk duo Esther & Abi Ofarim recorded a version of "El Vito" for their 1967 album "2 in 3".[7]
The melody of John Coltrane's song "Olé" on his album "Olé Coltrane" is an interpolated version of El Vito.
^"Sheet Music: El vito". Flutetunes.com. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
^ abPitt-Rivers, Julian (1971). The People of the Sierra. University of Chicago Press. pp. 170. ISBN 0226670104. El Vito andalusia.
^Meri, La (1948). Spanish Dancing. Interlink Book. p. 84. ISBN 1566568897.
^Kedzie Wood, Ruth (1913). The Tourist's Spain and Portugal. Dodd, Mead and Co. pp. 61. OCLC 370539. El Vito jacket and brimmed hat.
^ ab"Diccionario de la lengua española". Real Academia Española. Retrieved 2014-05-01.
^Folkways Media. "Liner notes for "Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vol.1"" (PDF). Retrieved 25 June 2020.
^"Esther Ofarim - Esther and Abi Ofarim - Esther & Abi Ofarim - Ofraim אסתר עופרים".
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