Four Puerto Rican Dances

• This track is a collection of four danzas for piano four-hands by Juan Morel Campos. While not inaccurate to refer to them as “dances,” they are specifically danzas, a Puerto Rican genre of social dance influenced by the Spanish contredanse and its Cuban form, the habanera.¹
  • In their program notes for this recording, the XX Digitus Piano Duo explains that a danza is structured with an introduction, followed by three distinct themes. 
  • These danzas are not a cycle collected by Morel Campos, but rather a selection of four of his many danzas presented as a collection in XX Digitus Duo’s 4+1 album. The selections come from a 1958 Puerto Rican publication of Morel Campos’s danzas for piano in five volumes. 

Contents:

1. El Ciclón (The Cyclone) 
2. También Lo Dudo (I Doubt It) 
3. Noche Deliciosa (Delicious Evening) 
4. La Traviesa (The Mischievous Girl) 

1. Program notes, 4+1, XX Digitus Piano Duo, accessed August 19, 2021, https://www.20digitusduo.com/recordings.