Soirée dans Grenade

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Soirée dans Grenade is the second piece in Claude Debussy's Estampes.

Soirée dans Grenade uses the Arabic scale and mimics guitar strumming to evoke images of Granada, Spain. At the time of its writing, Debussy's only personal experience with the country was a few hours spent in San Sebastián[1]. Despite this, the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla said of Soirée, "There is not even one measure of this music borrowed from the Spanish folklore, and yet the entire composition in its most minute details, conveys admirably Spain".[2]

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  1. ^ Hinson
  2. ^ Schmitz, Robert E. The Piano Works of Claude Debussy. New York: Duyell, Sloan and Pearce Publishers, 1950. pp 85-86.