Goyescas
This guide follows Granados’s Goyescas (1911) in six parts: Los requiebros (theme and variations), Coloquio en la reja (theme and variations), El fandango de candil, Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor (theme and variations), El amor y la muerte (Balada) and Epílogo. Serenata del espectro.
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- ILos requiebros
- IIColoquio en la reja
- IIIEl de candil
- IVQuejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor
- VEl amor y la muerte ()
- VI. del espectro
Los requiebros means 'The Flirtations'. Granados quotes an eighteenth-century tirana (a Spanish song and dance) and recasts it as a lively jota, with guitar-like plucking and strumming in the piano. After the , 1 begins, then 2. A long run of variations follows. A leads to 3, more variations follow, and then the begins.
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