Spanish Gypsy Dance | España Cañi | Paso-Doble by Pascual Marquina arranged for trombone with piano accompaniment. One of the most familiar pieces of the Spanish repertoire. The PlentyMusic sheet music video & realisation plays back at a tempo of 112 quarter note beats per minute and the tempo in the arrangement is constant. Piano accompaniments are in place playing at 104, 108, 112, 116 and 120 quarter note (crotchet) beats per minute. There are many excellent arrangements of this music available from the PlentyMusic sheet music library for many instrument combinations. Enjoy making music with PlentyMusic sheet music pdf and accompaniment downloads. Improve practice routines and playing standards using these professional resources. The melody has some tricky rhythmic patterns and shapes to play and triplets are an additional challenge. The small decorative / ornamental notes do not sound in the realisation. The solo melody doesn’t appear until bar 18 so the build up to this moment is intense particularly with the long crescendo. As there are no percussion in the scoring the arranger has omitted the tremolos from 73 – 78 doubling the clarinet melody with the piano accompaniment. Whilst the repetitive element is strong the music is nevertheless concise, dramatic and full of musical ideas and references to the Spanish idiom and style. The second section has an appealing syncopated melody with some changes the musical texture. The solo line played needs to be played with confidence and accuracy. It is also an excellent test as an ensemble piece requiring good communication between the soloist & accompanist. The solo part is quite challenging to play and needs to be learnt methodically most probably with some counting involved. Playing the melody at a slow tempo in the early stages of learning the piece is probably a sensible approach. The articulation markings featured in the score include the use of staccato, accents, marcato and legato playing. Performances need to demonstrate control of the range of dynamics that feature in the writing from the quietest to the loudest sound. This movement will need to be prepared thoroughly for a performance because of its familiarity. It is probably the most instantly recognisable piece of Spanish music ever composed! A great movement for both the player and the listener for its dramatic and musical qualities. The composition it dates from 1923 and was recorded as early as 1926. Spanish music is imbued with the sound of the phrygian mode which features particulary in the first section D Eb F G A Bb C D. In the phyrgian mode as it is described the scale structure is s/t T T T s/t T T (s/t = semitone & T = Tone) The composer Pascual Marquina Narro was a prolific Spanish composer of orchestral and operatic music. Pascual Marquina As a composer of distinctly Spanish music he is readily identified with the musical movement known as nationalism. The suggested tempo range for a paso doble when danced is between 116 and 124 beats per minute. It can be best described as a fast Latin dance with a strong march like rhythm.
