These songs are originally for voice and piano, but work beautifully for the viola and piano (with one song that includes English Horn). They are appropriate for intermediate to professional players. These 11 songs are great for developing a lyrical style of playing or including on a recital program in various groupings as short pieces. The busy streets and colorful costumes of Madrid come to life in the Tonadillas (11songs) by Enrique Grandos (1876-1916). Based on texts by Granados' friend, Fernando Periquet (1873-1940), the songs detail the romantic relationships of the majos and majas, the flamboyant working class people featured in the paintings of Goya, the great 19th-century Spanish painter. Granados wrote the set of 12 songs in 1912-1913, not long before he tragically died on a ship torpedoed in the English Channel in World War I. The eleven songs transcribed here for viola and piano are originally for solo voice- the other tonadilla is a duet. One of the eleven, "La Maja Dolorosa", also includes English horn, an unusual combination of instruments in the song literature. In the solo songs, the piano part is evocative of the plucked guitar, the traditional Spanish instrument, and it supports the wonderful, plaintive melodies of the viola. In the song with English horn, the accompaniment becomes more orchestral, providing the foundation for both solo instruments. Each song is a musical description of the text- it might describe the honorable, discreet majo (El Majo Discreto), or chide the timid majo (El Majo Timido), or portray the passionate, piercing gaze of the maja (El Mirar de la Maja). It is with this set of songs that Granados established a new tradition for Spanish song, incorporating traditional Spanish culture and elevating its tradition to the level of the 19th century German lied. The sparseness of the guitar-like accompaniment contributes to the musical tension between the two instruments, with the rubato of the melodic line based on the language inflections of the Spanish text.--notes by Melissa Rose

GranadosÂ's 12 Spanish Dances is a cycle of keyboard vignettes depicting Spanish life. This is the first critical edition published in the United States that includes GranadosÂ's final revisions. Performance notes, historical information and a glossary of Spanish terms are included. This edition aids in interpretation through added fingerings, editorial pedal, and indications for subtle changes in tempo, which are integral to the performance of Spanish music. Dr. Kuehl-White studied in Barcelona with legendary Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha, who provided a tremendous legacy regarding the performance practice traditions of GranadosÂ's music. Titles: Galante * Oriental * Fandango * Villanesca * Andaluza * Rondalla Aragonesa * Valenciana * Asturiana * Romántica * Melancólica * Arabesca * Bolero.

19 pieces from one of Spain's greatest composers, Enrique Granados (1867-1916), including a piece from his most famous work Goyescas.

Recognized as one of Spain's premiere composers and pianists, the Album For Piano highlights some of his best compositions for this instrument. 14 pieces featured are based on folksongs and dances of his homeland.

This excellent compilation features his finest works for solo piano: Op. 36; op. 46; Op. 39; Op. 37; Op. 38; and the composer's own transcription of the intermezzo from his opera Goyescas.

Contents: Danzas Espanolas (complete) · Goyescas (complete) · Valses Poeticos · Allegro de Concierto · Escenas Romanticas.

Enrique Granados; collection of easy piano pieces for the young

El Pelele From Goyesca para Piano. Suitable for advanced pianists.

The Spanish composer Enrique Granados left a varied and wide-ranging oeuvre, but it is above all his piano music that is still very much alive today. Henle's Urtext edition of the dazzlingly virtuoso Goyescas - no doubt his best-known piano composition - now brings a prestigious new work to their catalog. The suite was written between 1909 and 1911. Its unusual title goes back to the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, whose paintings inspired Granados. The Goyescas conjure up Spanish life in Goya's time at the end of the 18th century - gallant and sensual, but also melancholic and dark. The subtitle Los majos enamorados (the young lovers) provides a thematic link among the six scenes which depict the joys and sufferings of budding love.

Four of the great Spanish composerÂ's most admired and most performed suites for the piano, including his greatest work, Goyescas, the popular Spanish Dances, and the less-well-known but beautiful Escenas romanticas and Escenas poeticas, all reprinted from the original Spanish editions.

Spanish/English.

This Lament, or the maiden and the nightingale is the fourth movement of Granados' six-part piano cycle Goyescas (1909-11). The cycle's title is derived from the name of the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, whose paintings inspired Granados. The Goyescas conjure up Goya's Spain of the late 18th century - chivalrous and sensual, but also melancholic and sombre. The overall theme is thelife of two young lovers. The Quejas are a turning point in the cycle, because here jealousy leads to a lament that is joined by the song of the nightingale. The expressive intensity makes the movement the highpoint of the cycle for many, and G. Henle Verlag isnow offering it as an individual Urtext edition.

Aparicion, Danza Caracteristica, Danza Lenta, Dos Gavotas, El Jardi d'Elisenda, El Fandango del Candil, Jacara, Paisaje, Quejas o La Maja y el Ruisenor, Rapsodia Aragonesa, Zapateado

Publisher: Willis Music
Series: Willis
Pages: 9

Publisher: Willis Music
Series: Willis
Pages: 13

Publisher: Willis Music
Series: Willis
Pages: 10

Contents: Andaluza · Arabesca · Asturiana · Danza Triste · Jota (Rondalla Aragonesa) · Mazurca · Minueto · Oriental · Valenciana · Villanesca · Zambra · Zarabanda.

Born in Lérida in 1867, Enrique Granados studied the piano and composition in Barcelona and then in Paris, returning to Barcelona in 1889. He won distinction as a pianist and popularity in Spain with his contributions to the form of zarzuela. He was drowned in the English Channel when the boat on which he was returning home from an American tour by way of Liverpool was torpedoed.

Valses Poeticos para piano sola. A mi amigo Joaquin Malats.