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La Santa Espina
Sardana
Voz y Piano
MORERA, EnricReg.: B.3699
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- Review: LEÓN, Jordi
- Ensemble: Duos: With piano; With voice.
Choir: With accompaniment; . - Genres: Folk music / traditional: Sardanas.
- Lyric author: GUIMERÀ, Àngel
- Language: Catalán
- Product format: Partitura
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Period: 1st half S. XX
- Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
- Collection: Siglo XXI
- No. of pages: 16
- Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
- Lenght: 4'00''
- ISMN: 979-0-3503-1017-1
- Available in digital: No
- Available for rent: No
La Santa Espina by Enric Morera is one of the most emblematic sardanas of Catalan music. Through time it has become a patriotic song of Catalunya. Originally it was the 18th musical piece of the “rondalla en tres actos y seis cuadros” (Fairy Tale in 3 Acts and 6 Scenes o A Magical Story in 3 Acts and 6 Scenes) of the same name, based on a libretto by Àngel Guimerà. La Santa Espina was premiered in 1907 at the Teatro Principal in Barcelona.
The piece which later became the popular sardana is found in the third act of the work at the point where a group of Catalan women begin to sing the well-known words: “Som i serem gent catalana” (We are and always will be Catalans). However, the original sardana in the theatrical work differs slightly from the more well-known version since it begins with the largos* (long steps) which coincides with a modulation to the minor mode. This opening music is different from the cortos* (short steps) of the sardana since both the meter and melodies are different, alternating measures of ternary and binary beats.
Morera arranged this sardana the same year of the premiere, 1907, converting it into an independent work. The first version with a text is the recording by Emili Vendrell in 1918. In this recording there is only text in the section of the largos, which fits perfectly with the music. Later other arrangements were made in which the text begins in the cortos.
In this edition for voice and piano, revised by Jordi León, the score is based on the edition for piano solo published by Unión Musical Española with the voice added according to the text.
-Introducció / Introduction / Introducción
-La Santa Espina: partitura / score
