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Falla, Manuel de |
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Falla, Manuel de (1876–1946)Spanish composer. The folk music (flamenco) of southern Spain is a major part of his compositions. His opera La vida breve/Brief Life (1905; first performed 1913) was followed by the ballets El amor brujo/Love the Magician (first performed 1915) and El sombrero de tres picos/The Three-Cornered Hat (1919), and his most ambitious concert work, Noches en los jardines de España/Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1916). He also wrote songs and pieces for piano and guitar.
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It seems to us that Mompou's work is honorably situated within the great tradition of Spanish music, along with composers Cabezon, Victoria and Guerrero, followed by Pedrell, Albeniz, Granados, Falla and Turina. 3,10,11,15) Falla et al (16) recently demonstrated that the DNFs are increasingly active during craniocervical flexion (chin tuck). You're always looking for something new," said Merrill Falla, owner of the San Franciscan restaurant in Torrance, which started karaoke nights six years ago and quickly added to what had been a crowd of over-50 regulars. |
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