Typically Andalusion song. Accompanied by guitar, castanets, hand clapping and by the characteristic foot-tap dancing, it acquires an extraordinarily rich rhythm, often admired by foreign composers. Of marked Arab origin, the use of special inflections of voice with intervals of less than a semitone confers on it an intense, dramatic force. Its variants are the 'bulerías', 'seguidillas', 'serranas', 'soleares', etc. It is also called, though not so properly, cante flamenco.