Flamenco (Proper)
Flamenco consists of many different styles, but the three primary elements are cante (song, i.e., vocal), toque (instrumental, e.g., guitar), and baile (dance). Each element has several subcategories, giving rise to more than fifty different types of flamenco music, known as palos. The cante, for example, is typically divided into three basic categories that suggest the level of performance difficulty: cante jondo (deep song), cante intermedio (intermediate song), and cante chico (light song). While the singers of cante jondo are the most respected, these performances highlight the vocalist over the guitar and associated dance, which are often absent.