Spanish Dance No. 3: Zarabanda

Main page for Granados’ Danzas espagñolas

• This dance has also been published as “Fandango.”¹
• Both fandango² and zarabanda are triple meter dances used in Spain. It is thought that both originated in Spanish colonies of the New World.
  • The original Spanish zarabanda was much faster than its descendent, the stately Sarabande we know from Baroque suites.³

1. “12 Danzas españolas (Granados, Enrique),” IMSLP, accessed October 15, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/12_Danzas_espa%C3%B1olas_(Granados,_Enrique).
2. Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4^th ed., s.v. “Fandango” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
3. Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4^th ed., s.v. “Sarabande” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).