Manuel de Falla - Siete canciones populares españolas (GSARCI VIDEO VERSION)

Siete canciones populares españolas («Seven Popular Spanish Folk Songs») is a 1914 set of Spanish songs by the composer Manuel de Falla which is one of the most famous and most frequently performed sets of Spanish-language art songs. The set was dedicated to Madame Ida Godebska. Despite the undeniable “Spanishness” of most of de Falla’s music, this cycle of seven songs is one of the few to directly use pre-existing Spanish melodies. Written in Paris, toward the end of his seven-year stay, the songs have remained so popular as to have overshadowed most of his other vocal works. Their premiere occurred shortly after that of his opera «La vida breve». At the eve of a World War there is a certain naive quality to be found in these songs, a nostalgia for the folk-music of his homeland. Here is the list of songs in the song cycle, including their rough translations to English. 1. El Paño Moruno (The Moorish Cloth) On the fine cloth in the store a stain has fallen; It sells at a lesser price, because it has lost its value. Alas! 2. Seguidilla Murciana (Murcian Seguidilla) Who has a roof of glass should not throw stones to their neighbor's (roof). Let us be muleteers; It could be that on the road we will meet! For your great inconstancy, I compare you to a [coin] that runs from hand to hand; which finally blurs, and, believing it false, no one accepts! 3. Asturiana (Asturian Song) To see whether it would console me, I drew near a green pine, To see whether it...