Espana Romantica Volume 1
Anthology of Guitar Works by Spanish Masters of the 19th Century, 15 Opera and Zarzuela Transcriptions
40 pages. easy-medium
After the height of glory reached in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the guitar in Europe underwent a slow and relentless decline which distanced it from the concert halls. The music for guitar in Spain, as well as referring in style to the ancient splendours of the classical period and to the new free forms of Romanticism such as the Nocturnos, drew from the folklore heritage, offering pieces of clearly popular tradition. The selection here gathers together music by Spanish guitarists who were alive after the death of Dionisio Aguado (Madrid, 1784-1849) and who composed throughout the second half of the nineteenth century up until the beginning of the twentieth, leaving to Francisco Tárrega (Villareal, Castellón, 1852 – Barcellona, 1909), the task of finally restoring to the guitar the role it once had.
Content:
Jaime Bosch: Enfantillage
1e Guagirana
Les Adieux
Reverie
Exercise en Re
Reverie
Ballade
Tomas Damas: El Arroyo (Vals)
El Bosque (Schottich)
La Vespertina (Habanera)
Los Aldeanos (Tanda de Valses facil) Jose Ferrer: Allegretto
Vals
Mazurka
Nocturno
La Danse des Naiades
Jose Broca: Andante
Una Flor (Mazurka)
Antonio Cano: Ejercicio No.5
Ejercicio No.7
Jose Vinas: Andante sentimental
El Sueno (Reverie)
Julian Arcas: Manuelito (Vals)
Minueto in E minor
