Andalusia The composer Manuel de Falla was from Cádiz and incorporated typical Andalusian melodies in his works, as did Joaquín Turina, from Seville. The great singer Camarón de la Isla was born in San Fernando, Cádiz, and Andrés Segovia who helped shape the romantic-modernist approach to classical guitar, was born in Linares, Jaén. The virtuoso Flamenco guitar player Paco de Lucia who helped internationalize Flamenco, was born in Algeciras, Cadiz. Since the Neolithic era, Andalusia has preserved important megaliths, such as the dolmens at the Cueva de Menga and the Dolmen de Viera, both at Antequera. Archeologists have found Bronze Age
Music of Andalusia "a body of song of comparable intensity, profanity and eroticism [existed] in Arabic from the second half of the 9th century onwards." "Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", edited Andalusia is a modern autonomous community of Spain that is best known for flamenco, a form of music and dance that is mostly performed by Andalusian people. Improvised flamenco songs of ancient Andalusian origin are called "cante jondo", and are characterized by a reduced tonal ambiance, a strict rhythm, baroque ornamentation and repetition of notes. "Cante jondo" is sung by a single singer ("cantaor"). There are two forms of flamenco songs: