Saeta (flamenco)

[2] "Saetas vary greatly in form and style, ranging from simple syllabic melodies to highly ornamented ones.

[5] The song is performed during the processions by religious confraternities that move slowly through the streets of cities and towns in southern Spain.

[6][7][8] Possessing a plaintive emotional intensity, and dramatic charge, the saeta is sung by the saetero, often from a balcony, and may be addressed to the statue of Jesus below, in his agony on the Via Dolorosa, or to that of his suffering mother Mary.

[14] Four intentions or themes have been distinguished from the religious lyrics, which mark the music of Saeta: descriptive, praising, prayerful, and exhortative.

[19] Commonly the saetero sings in a minor key finishing on the dominant; the meter of different verses will often be variable depending on the interpretation.

The Gypsies "se sienten identificados con los episodios de la Pasión y consideran a Jesús como un hermano en desgracia que sufre persecusión y muerte.