coplita

Updated: May 21, 2025

The clicking of the castanets with which they accompany their festal processions, and which, unlike the broken and measured rhythm of the Spaniards, consists of a continuous roll like that of a drum "battant aux champs," is from time to time suddenly interrupted in order to sing in unison a coplita on a phrase which always recommences but never finishes.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2