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Bertsolaristic
movement  What
is a bertso?  Metre
Metre
The
Basque bertso is divided into puntuak and each puntua, depending
on the metre, has a certain number of syllables. As explained in
The art of bertsolaritza: reality of and keys to Basque oral
improvisation, “The bertsolari never counts the number
of syllables while he or she is improvising. That is, while the
air or the rhyme allows for a certain margin of variation, the metre
chosen or appointed has no such flexibility. Either the verse is
metered well or it is not metered at all”.
Here
are some of the most common metres in improvised bertsolarismo:
Other
paradigms
The
metres mentioned above are the most common in the festivals and
non-conducted (imposed) performances. Nevertheless, other paradigms
exist such as the koplas, simple rhyming verse and which have had
a grand tradition over the centuries when performing in many kinds
of ronda (around the streets). Their structures are:
There
are also much more recent paradigms, often created by the improvisers
themselves, with the objective of successively competing in the
various Championships that are regularly held. It is, as it were,
looping the loop - the greater the number of puntus, the greater
the number of rhymes ... and the greater danger of making a mistake
– without the safety net of the traditional paradigms –
but also greater the possibility of achieving excellence if successfully
performed. The new paradigms respond to a modern tendency whereby
the improviser needs sufficient textual space in order to demonstrate
his or her originality, the complexity of their arguments, the distance
between the performer and the proposed theme for the ad-lib verse
singing ... in these times wherein the context is not so agglutinative
as in others, it is the text that greatly supports the weight of
communicative success. And this explains the tendency for the text
to be longer.
Here are some examples:
The
metres here use only one family of rhymes, but there are other paradigms
which alter this regularity. Here are some examples:
The
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Bertsogintzaren
arauak. Xabier Amuriza. Elkar
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Bertsolaristic
movement
What is a bertso?
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