Manuel de Falla Essays

  • Carlos Chavez Obertura Republicana

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    Carlos Chavez Obertura Republicana Carlos Chavez’s Obertura Republicana is a politically motivated piece for orchestra. The piece is specifically based off of Mexico’s Indian heritage. The piece involves an arrangement of a traditional military march titled Zacatecas, the famous salon waltz, Club Verde and the revolutionary piece, La Adelita. After a few listens, I must say, it’s a loud, bombastic, march-like, Mexican sounding piece. To me there is no question of its national ties. I made a point

  • Poema Del Cante Jondo: Popular or Elitist?

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    ones, they can be found in almost all poems. Death can come in many forms, such as blood, as a cross, in conversations, the moon and many more. Death is very often implied as being far away, toward the unknown: `(...) y por el aire ascienden /espirales de llanto / un punto lejano" . There are many representations of people walking on a path to that unknown death. This path is seen as a labyrinth... ... middle of paper ... ...ent and wit without losing his audience. He therefore combined the two to

  • Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism by Domingo R. Sarmiento

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    add to the setting, the book talks about the terrain, which includes the Andes Mountains, the plains, and the forest. The principal characters in the book are Domingo F. Sarmiento, Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo, and Argentina's dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. Sarmiento's main points for writing this book were to discredit the caudillos and Rosas. Also, to show the truth about how things were in Argentina. When taking a look at this book, a person must take a look at the society and politics

  • The Film Camila

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    “Camila” was produced in 1984 and directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg (1922-1955). Based on the true story of Camila O’Gorman, an Argentine woman who falls in love with a priest in 1840’s Buenos Aires, this story dealt with the terrifying reign of Juan Manuel de Rosas. Camila is from an influential family and is betrothed to a Rosas loyalist. She is passionate and daring, just like her grandmother, and reads books that have been censored by the ruthless Rosas. When she falls in love with Father Ladislao

  • Argentina's Division in El Matadero by Esteban Echeverria and Amalia by Jose Marmol

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    and Esteban Echeverria, who were mid-nineteenth century romantics, lived in exile together in Montevideo during the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. During Juan Manuel de Rosas violent dictatorship he “had abruptly sent hundreds of good citizens into political exile” (Marmol 5). During his exile, Jose Marmol wrote poetry against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas. By looking at the Federalist and Unitarian division the reader can see how the author’s favor the Unitarian side over the Federalists

  • The Relationship Between Segovia And Ponce

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    During the twentieth the century there has been an extraordinary number of major works written for the guitar by composers who do not themselves play the instrument. The purpose of this research paper is to look at works of composers such as Manuel de Falla, Manuel Ponce, Joaquin Rodrigo , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and others in order to understand the importance of the relationship between composer and the guitar player.

  • Miguel De Cervantes Research Paper

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    Miguel de Cervantes was a famous novelist in Spain in the sixteenth century during the Renaissance. Cervantes lived in Spain during the Golden Age which helped him become a recognized writer. He was very talented, and he showed his talents through the interesting and wonderful novels he wrote. The most famous novel he wrote was called Don Quixote. Cervantes had a very exhausting and enthusiastic life, full of excitement and success. Miguel de Cervantes has great histories which lead him to write

  • Debussy's Influence On American Imperialism

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    The late 19th century was a time of great change. With rapid modernisation came increased imperial encounters and the rise of colonialism. Countries became preoccupied with ideas of self and national identity, and this desire for individuality created, at the same time, interest in the concept of the exotic “other.” Exoticism was hugely popular in French art music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What was foreign was often considered primitive or dangerous, but also extremely alluring and

  • Andres Segovia

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    also helped make guitar makers like Manuel Ramirez, and Herman Hauser become famous themselves. His expertise also helped the Yamaha corporation, but his greatest impact was as a teacher. To study with the great Segovia was considered one of the finest honors of a classical guitarist. Segovia felt that he was the person to bring the guitar to an unseen level of fame. He had an encounter with Jose del Hierro, who had heard him play at the shop of Manuel Ramirez and told Segovia to take

  • The House of Bernarda Alba

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    and encouraged his love of literature, art, and music. He was an extremely talented man. A respectable painter, a fine pianist, and an accomplished writer. He was close friends with some of Spain's most talented people, including musician Manuel de Falla, and painter Salvador Dali. Lorca was a very liberal man who lived un dictatorship for most of his life. However, in 1931 Spain turned into more of a democracy, and was called "The Second Spanish Republic." However, fascist leader, Francisco

  • Guitar Importance

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    the 17th century as the lute and vihuela declined. The lute and vihuela remained amateur’s instrument from the 17th to early 19th century. A few virtuoso guitarists, however, became known in Europe, among them Gaspar Sanz (flourished 1674), Robert de Visée (c. 1650–1725), Fernando Sor (1778–1839), and Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1806–56). Modern classical-guitar technique owes much to the Spaniard Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909), whose transcriptions of works by Bach, Mozart, and other composers formed the

  • Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Critical interest has since shifted to the tortured, ambiguous and deliberately dissonant surrealist poems of Poeta en Nueva York (Mexico City, 1940; tr. B. Belitt, Poet in New York, London, 1955), and to the arabesque casidas and gacelas of Divein de Tamarit (NY, 1940). An early major anthology in English is Poems (tr. S. Spender & J. L. Gili, London, 1939). As a dramatist, early romantic pieces with social implications such as Mariana Pineda (Madrid, 1928; tr. J. GrahamLuidn & R. L. O'Connell