WEEK 2: La Guitarra Espanola! 
Welcome to the Main Thread for the second week of our musical Journey to Spain!! This is the place to share submissions of the second week! 
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- Things you found easy:
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Beautiful Nora!!! Y suena más ligado que el viernes!!!! Bravo!!!!
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Emma thank you Emma, I continue working on it...I have to play it slowly also and I do it, but for the video I wanted a little more tempo....
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Just yo let you all know guys that I am still here in the challenge with my Cadiz! This week I am trying to play it more legato. Especially difficult to play legado in the progression of chords. Also some bars with jumps and crescendo where I need to keep practicing slow, as they are still not consistent. I tried to record a video , slow video, and failed …so more practice is needed. I do really really hope to make a recording this week
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Emma I am with you, Emma. I was also not able to decently record my Madronos, so far, and that piece is not as long and difficult as Cadiz! It’s a musical miniature, everything should sound light and easy, so my struggling is not good enough….
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Emma I hope you'll find your way to share something by the end of the challenge, your playing is always good to listen to.
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Emma don!t rusch Emma. This happens also to me with Granada, I can not perform it relatively nice to send a video....but we will!!!!
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Garcia Lorca _ 2 songs
Something totally different for the last moments of week 2.
Disclaimer, this is not a political statement. These songs represent for me the enduring spirt of music and arts even if all the odds are against. Both songs are about love and joy of life.
Federico Garcia Lorca, (1898-1936) outstanding poet and playwright of 20th century Spain. And, sadly, a famous victim of the Guerra Civil (late 30s). He died in imprisonment, under unknown circumstances.
Born and raised in Granada, he grew up with music and was inspired by the popular traditions of his native region, Andalusia. A pianist and singer, he also played guitar, composed and arranged some folk songs, wrote lyrics. It’s a minor part of his legacy. He joined the group around Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel, was inspired by Manuel de Falla and other contemporaries. One could say that his skills as a guitarist composer didn’t match his literary talents. But these songs have such an unsophisticated folkish character…
Moreover, they tell the wider story of en epoch. Many young men from all over Europe came to join the republican forces. After Franco’s nationalists prevailed, they returned home, and many brought back with them, besides a guitar, their enthusiasm for Spanish music, which they then shared with a new and growing generation of guitarists.
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joosje thanks for sharing this music Joosje! specially the second melody touched me deeply...very spanisch....the war....and poetic...I did not know that Lorca was doing additionally music!!! La Tarara....sounds like when singing...." ta...ra...ra...ra...la...."
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joosje that was fantastic Joosje, beautiful music played with sensitivity and depth... thanks for sharing
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joosje Those were beautiful, Joosje! Garcia Lorca arranged those on the guitar? I had no idea there was anything in our repertoire by him. What a treasure!
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joosje Those were hauntingly beautiful, Joosje. And wonderfully played! Thanks very much for those.
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joosje I love F Garcia Lorca, I love his poems . He was a very skilful pianist too! And apparently very funny and witty… well these songs I will savour….
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joosje Beatiful Joosje - I haven't heard these arrangements before. I have played a duet version of La Tarara many times but never as a solo piece. Thank you for sharing this.
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joosje Beautifully done. I particularly loved the second piece, La Tarara. Who knew this side of Lorca. Thank you for introducing these two little gems to us. And, your tone captured perfectly the feeling of these two pieces.
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joosje Both pieces and the playing were so beautiful! Thank you for sharing~
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Nora
la Tarará si, la tarará no, la Tarará, niña que la he visto yo
Lorca composed it based on several Spanish songs for children.
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joosje so beautiful
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joosje Wow! Beautiful, Joosje! Great! Thank you for sharing!
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There are traditional songs that he arranged. Beautiful Joosje
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Emma I just had no idea he had done this. What a great contribution from joosje !
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Sor – Andante Op 44 No 11
For this one, I simply started flipping through my book of Sor studies (ed. Grimes) looking for something I hadn’t played before, but looked interesting and not too difficult to play. This Andante in E minor fits the bill.
I find it interesting how the B section begins in the relative major key, but very quickly (after just two measures) goes back to E minor. It’s like you’re eating a dish of ice cream, then you take a little taste of another flavor from someone else nearby, but then you go right back to what’s in your dish.
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Eric Phillips you keep going, Eric. bravo.. Lovely tune again. Didn’t know this one. I was actually happy that Fernando returned to the E minor mode. it feels like he had a taste of lemon after the sweet vanilla….
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Eric Phillips Really nicely played, Eric. This is another of Sor's studies that I like.
However, I'm not sure I entirely agree with your ice cream analogy. I think it is more like your eating your ice cream and then, when your companion looks away, you eat their entire piece of cake and then you finish your ice cream.
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Eric Phillips well played Eric and I agree with Jack Stewart analysis
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joosje Jack Stewart Blaise Laflamme Thank you. Food analogies are my favorite! I think I'll go have some dessert now.
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