Esta Semana
Week of July 11 ✦ Forthcoming
- Expanding Western Harmony: The Andalusian Cadence and Phrygian Tonality
- Modes, Scales, and Key
- Clásica: Giuliani Study — Ligado
- Flamenca: Estudio de Arpegios
A centre for the serious study of flamenco — its history, its forms, its guitar technique, and its place in the broader Western musical tradition. Treated as theory: compás, harmony, modal identity, and the internal logic of each palo.
The full archive launches Saturday, July 4, 2026.
“How long must one study flamenco? For a lifetime…”
Hover the menus at the top of the page to walk the site before it opens. Every dropdown — and every sub-dropdown beneath it — names a real page in the forthcoming archive: palos by family, the Estudio Flamenco curriculum from first chord to concert obras, the harmonized scales and chord-construction pages, and the library of cante, guitarra, and discography. The links don't open yet — on July 4, every doorway does. After that, the work continues; the archive grows; compás deepens. There is no last page.
Armonía Flamenca is a centre for the serious study of flamenco — its history, its forms, its guitar technique, and its place in the broader Western musical tradition. Flamenco is not folk music in any simple sense; it is a sophisticated art with deep roots in Andalusian culture, shaped by Romani, Moorish, Jewish, and Spanish influences over centuries. This site approaches it as theory: compás, harmony, modal identity, and the internal logic of each palo. The Phrygian mode, the cadencia andaluza, the distinction between jondo and festero forms — these are the building blocks. To understand flamenco is to understand an entire way of feeling time.
From its Baroque origins in the alfabeto tablatures of Gaspar Sanz to the revolutionary harmonic language of Paco de Lucía, the Spanish guitar carries a tradition unlike any other. It is at once percussive and lyrical, modal and tonal, solo and accompaniment. The rasgueado, the picado, the golpe — each technique is a vocabulary. This site documents that vocabulary with rigor and love, from the five-course Baroque guitar through the classical innovations of Tárrega to the modern toque flamenco.
Flamenco guitarist, researcher, and educator based in New Mexico and California. His unpublished doctoral dissertation, Flamenco: Lament and Other Cultural Models, examines the emotional and cultural frameworks that give flamenco its expressive depth — from duende and jondo to the sociology of the juerga. His work bridges the academy and the tablao — treating flamenco as both a subject of rigorous scholarship and a living practice that demands physical commitment and cultural immersion.
An interactive metronome built from the ground up for flamenco. Each palo — Soleares, Bulerías, Siguiriyas, Tangos, Farruca, and more — is rendered with its authentic accent pattern, correct beat numbering, and characteristic compás. Linear and clock views, click / palmas / cajón sounds, four visual aesthetics. Feel the compás before you can explain it — that is where flamenco begins.