After
seven years in Paris, and upon the outbreak of World War I, Manuel de Falla
returned to Madrid. There, he was commissioned to write a song and dance, which
soon evolved into a full-blown story based upon gypsy legend. He emerged with
the ballet El amor brujo (literally, Spell-bound Love, but
generally anglicized as Love, the Magician). The emphatic rhythm, compressed tonal range and alternating long
notes of the "Dance of Terror" have become famous as orchestral
excerpts and piano transcriptions. The
Spanish dance is from the 2nd act of the opera La vida breve, or "the short life". Like El amor brujo, the subject matter deals
with love, betrayal and death in a gypsy slum of El Albaicín, Granada. Milton Rubén Laufer
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Manuel de Falla
Dance of Terror Play
Recorded on 03/27/2007, uploaded on 01/22/2009
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Dance of Terror Manuel de Falla
After seven years in Paris, and upon the outbreak of World War I, Manuel de Falla returned to Madrid. There, he was commissioned to write a song and dance, which soon evolved into a full-blown story based upon gypsy legend. He emerged with the ballet El amor brujo (literally, Spell-bound Love, but generally anglicized as Love, the Magician). The emphatic rhythm, compressed tonal range and alternating long notes of the "Dance of Terror" have become famous as orchestral excerpts and piano transcriptions. The Spanish dance is from the 2nd act of the opera La vida breve, or "the short life". Like El amor brujo, the subject matter deals with love, betrayal and death in a gypsy slum of El Albaicín, Granada. Milton Rubén Laufer
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