Flemish terminology by the RAE
Do you know the Real Academia Española, one of the emblems of Landscape of Light?
The Royal Spanish Academy building from the Prado Museum
Photo: Pablo Bautista
To the joy of many, the 23rd edition of the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (DRAE) finally includes several flamenco terminologies that many of us have been waiting for.
The Royal Spanish Academy is the institution that since 1713 has ensured that the changes that the Spanish language undergoes in its constant adaptation to the needs of its speakers do not break the essential unity that it maintains throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Building of the Royal Spanish Academy
Photo: Susana del Pozo
The great building that houses this great cultural institution, guardian of the purity of the Spanish language, is located in the heart of the Jerónimos district of Madrid, surrounded by the Prado Museum the Casón del Buen Retiro, the Salón de Reinos and the church of San Jerónimo el Real, a privileged location in the heart of Madrid's most recent World Heritage Site. Landscape of Light The city of Madrid, our most recent UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in the heart of the Jeronimos district of Madrid. Region of Madrid. This Landscape of Light includes the Paseo del Prado and the Buen Retiro and the Landscape of Arts and Sciences, and is an essential complement to your next visit to Madrid. tablaos flamencos Madrid.
Landscape of Light of Madrid
In 2013, the new update of the DRAE, was a cause of joy for the flamenco world that had long been requesting the inclusion and improvement of a widely used and consolidated terminology. The writer and professor specializing in folklore and popular narrative Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar has been one of the people who for decades has been demanding a place for flamenco in the DRAE.
"At last the prodigious world of Andalusian music has the treatment it deserves," declared Rodríguez Almodóvar, who considered these additions as a qualitative leap made by the RAE in the valuation of flamenco, Intangible Heritage of Humanity and one of the cultural signs by which Spain is identified in the world.
Olga Pericet's baile flamenco por seguiriya at Corral de la Morería, Madrid, May 2019
Some of the new terms included in this edition of the dictionary are toná, seguiriya, granaína, media granaína, o alboreá. Flamenco now refers to something 'related to a cultural expression, or its performer, of Andalusian folk character and often linked to the Gypsy people'.
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