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  • Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo

    Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo by Hess, Carol A.;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 26 May 2025

    • ISBN 9780197622834
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages160 pages
    • Size 210x141x11 mm
    • Weight 172 g
    • Language English
    • 624

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    Short description:

    Since its 1915 premiere, artists and arrangers ranging from the classical pianist Artur Rubinstein to pop luminaries such a Fred Waring and Spike Lee have found El amor brujo attractive. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in the unusually rich history of this piece.

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    Long description:

    El amor brujo (trans. "Love, the Magician") is a theater work by the Spanish classical composer Manuel de Falla. It showcases flamenco, the music of the Gitanos who traditionally form Spain's underclass. When it premiered in Spain in 1915, it proved controversial: some Spanish critics applauded Falla for celebrating the music of a marginalized culture while others attacked his mixing of classical and popular idioms.

    Since then, El amor brujo has intrigued arrangers and artists. It has been repeatedly reshaped, rearranged, and repackaged, either by Falla himself or by artists ranging from the concert pianist Artur Rubinstein to the super-showman Liberace or to various jazz and pop arrangers. El amor brujo has also figured in soundtracks, whether frothy movie musicals from the 1940s, somber accounts of recent Spanish history, or films on anti-Black racism, including one by Spike Lee. In Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo, author Carol A. Hess explores the ways in which music, class, and race are intertwined in this composition's unusually rich history.

    Carol A. Hess is the author of two of the most important books ever published on Falla, Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 (2001) and Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla (2005). I consider her to be the leading expert on Falla, but in addition to the breadth and depth of her knowledge, she is also a talented writer with a literary flair.

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    Table of Contents:

    Recommended Reading
    Appendix 1 Selected arrangements of El amor brujo
    Appendix 2 "Ritual Fire Dance" and Popular Music
    Recordings
    Appendix 3 El amor brujo: Selected Historic Readings
    Appendix 4 El amor brujo and Film
    Index

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