Romance (arr. Chris Hazell)

Composer: ANONYMOUS
  • This is a Spanish guitar piece, probably composed in the 19th C.1
  • Genre: a Spanish romance is a song or piece that tells a story (similar to ballad).2
  • This piece gained popularity when it appeared in Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games, 1952), a French film by René Clément, about two French children finding friendship amid tragedy in occupied France during WWII.

Sources

  1. “Romanza” (Anonymous), International Music Score Library Project, accessed July 11, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/Romanza_(Anonymous).
  2. Jack Sage, Susana Friedmann, and Roger Hickman, “Romance,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, January 1, 2001), accessed July 11, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023725.

Cut IDs

19354