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Asturiana

by Gianmaria Griglio | Last updated Jan 30, 2024 | Published on Nov 26, 2015 | A walk in the score, Score analysis

Asturiana Both the text and the melody of Asturiana come from a folk songs of the Asturias, in the north of Spain. It’s a delicate fairy tale of a tree weeping sympathetically with the protagonist of the story. Within a simple A-A1 structure, the melody, once...

Seguidilla murciana

by Gianmaria Griglio | Last updated Aug 31, 2020 | Published on Nov 13, 2015 | A walk in the score, Score analysis

Seguidilla murciana: origins Second song of the Siete canciones populares españolas, the seguidilla is an old dance form in quick triple time. The name is a diminutive of seguida (from seguir, “to follow”). It originated either in the region of Don Quixote...

El paño moruno

by Gianmaria Griglio | Last updated Jan 30, 2024 | Published on Nov 5, 2015 | A walk in the score, Score analysis

El paño moruno (The Moorish Cloth) This song originates from the Murcia, one of the 17 independent Autonomous Communities of Spain. The story is fairly trivial: a shop reduced the price of a cloth because it had a stain on it. The structure is very basic: A, A1, coda;...

Schumann Symphony n.3

by Gianmaria Griglio | Last updated Jan 30, 2024 | Published on Sep 26, 2015 | A walk in the score, Score analysis

Schumann: Symphony n.3 – Biographical context Around the time he was in Düsseldorf for his new conducting position, Schumann gave birth to one of his most popular works. Being in Eb major with a beginning in ¾ , the symphony immediately calls for a comparison...