Citations:rasgueo

English citations of rasgueo and rasgueado

• 1987 September, Simon Cottle, “‘La Garrocha’, Flamenco as an Expression of Community”, in The Contemporary Review, volume 251, page 140:

  Entering one typical bar two guitarists, equipped with highly strung golpeadored guitars and seemingly rubber wrists, were blasting out their choruses of Sevill a nas in between unbelievably fast passages of rhythm or rasgueo.

page 141:

The scene now set, another guitarist takes up his position and immediately begins to play a salida, or introductory passage employing the characteristic finger rolling technique, rasgueado, to effect a breath-taking demonstration of controlled right-hand technique.

• 2004 March 10, Evan Pondel, “Musician and his guitar are as one”, in Daily News, Los Angeles, California, page U5:

  Dressed in black pants, black vest and leather boots, De Lucia is now ready to rasgueado – a flamenco strumming pattern in which the musician fans his fingers like a peacock and strikes each string in succession.

• 2013, Anna Piotrowska, Guy Torr, Gypsy Music in European Culture, page 138:

  In the context of evoking flamenco guitar through string pizzicato and piano arpeggiation, we also see intentional pauses in the division of chords, marking clearly the flamenco guitar technique of rasgueado.

• 2016, Ludim Rebeca Pedroza, “The Joropo in Venezuela’s Musical Modernity: Cultural Capital in José Clemente Laya’s Sonata Venezolana”, in Musicological Annual, volume 52, →DOI, page 57:

  The cuatro player uses the rasgueo, an aggressive strumming technique; by alternating between open-hand strumming and closed-hand strumming, the cuatrista adds percussive, accented syncopations (Figure 1 shows one of the most common rasgueo patterns).

• 2018, Juan Montoya, The Influences of Argentinean Criollo Dance and Folk Music in the Orchestral Works of Alberto Ginastera, Dissertation, University of Arizona, page 45:

  This highly syncopated pattern represents complicated zapateo footwork or guitar rasgueo. Such use of rhythmic syncopation is typical in a malambo.